pears

I've been playing with pears as a subject for the bread and butter work for the flower mines. We have some  gorgeous gift bags and boxes with this design and i knew i had to use them as inspiration!

Tweaked a pattern and came up with these:

The larger one is 7" and the smaller 4".

This is my Bible for three dimensional work:

No matter how many times i have winnowed out my library, i have kept this one. It was published in 1978 and is invaluable! Used with a 1974 copy of Dona Meilach's "Soft Sculpture and Other Soft Art Forms" and Janet Edmond's "Three Dimensional Embroidery" (2005), i have all the technical knowledge i need to create shapes and forms. (The first two are definitely out of print, but keep an eye open in used bookstores!)

And yes, Frankenstitch will continue this afternoon with more instructions and (maybe) another video!