WALL EMBROIDERY PICTURE - Iceland - part 2 Aurora

I am struggling whether to do the trees with embroidery stiches or should I do applique . I want it to be nice but not overwrite the aurora. I intended to do one of my favourite stay with applique and padding. This is also the place we had the most beautiful aurura which danced awfully elegantly . It was then everyone "wow!!' that we noticed the place was actually filled with quite a no. of people though we probably had not noticed each other earlier. 

 For this , I'm only doing the trees top and the hut.

 I used brown wrapping paper and the purplish netting for the foreground.

I prefer to iron the cloth before I use them. Infact, I washed all clothes before I use them.

This green looks great, deep but not to dark to show the embroidery . I used the segregated thread .

I bought a huge packet of the wadding for this project. I will use the water soluble when I stitch the wadding.

It  really pluffy. Love it. But I made a mistake. The embroidery will flattens it. Keep the sewing minimum.

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to counter that, I added another thinner bedding for the inner portion and minimize tgecsewing. Hmm... Not bad

I think I will add more trees at the back. Probably just embroidery, no applique so they would be more interesting.
 

After struggling a few days in sudden snowfall and strong winds, finally we feel safer as the snowstorm subsided.

fassunton Camping ground

WALL EMBROIDERY PICTURE - Iceland - part 1 Aurora

After I completed my curtains, my next project is to do a embroidery picture of my travels. My First intention was to do a long single piece about 3m long. My wall is not flat, it has a portion where the column stood. And I will have difficulty hanging it. Worse still, I can't make any mistake , else everything is failed. Then I thought I could do smaller ones and quilt them, but I really don't enjoy quilting at the moment. Finally, I compromised to a smaller piece and do 3 individual pieces. I will probably embroidery most, thread painting, applique and may be some hand embroidery and I may add beads or so. As I do, I'll decide. 

First, I hunt for the base fabrics which I hope to get a thicker one. I went old people park.Then I went to Spotlight, I bought some solid colours fabric which I will use. Very basic greens, browns and blues. As I shop the next trip, I decided to get some netting too. I am a beginner so I don't have much fabric, mine mostly flower prints. I had some leftover from making mask, hope they will come to good use.

 A brown wrapper (rice paper) that caught my eyes at Diaso.

A draft on the actual size. I prefer to feel it than to imagine it. This is my First try.

The whole paintings will be in greens, blues brown and white, red n yellow goes for the sunrise only.

Now, it's digitising time. I drew, wait for a few days to observe, then change then wait. Finally I'm ready to sew!

I did a test for my project to ensure which will give the better effect I called for.

After several combination , I decided on combinding 2 netting, purple and blue ensuring they crisscross each other to get the best effect. I put tapes around because I may take 2 days or more to do and there will be a lot of applique work later. Better keep it safe in place. I had planned to paint the back ground blue and black with the fabric paint initially.

Original plan was to embroider 2 layers of the wavy stitches, but after the first layer, I think it is Good to reflect the night sky. So it is actually 3 layers, 2 layer of netting and 3rd, embroidery over it.

For the aurora, 1st layer I use the segregated green/yellow.

Then I add 2nd layer of segregated green(darker one), but I don't like the effect. I changed it to a single colour deep green. Hmmm... Much better.

 then I added 3rd n 4th layer of a brighter green to enhance the whole effect of the aurora.

These are some of the aurora photos I've taken in our Iceland trip. They aren't the most beautiful.

Firstly my photography was so so, secondly the most beautiful one in fassuton where we were wondering where it woul appeared. It suddenly danced above us and twist magically. It all happened so quickly I've no time to react, but just relax and enjoyed it. We were lucky to enjoy them for a number of days, some faintly, some really  bright, not twist and turn. There was one with a faint purplish/pink thin line but disappeared almost immediately . Nevertheless, they were lovely and too Good for words, you got to see it yourself. I'm sure for those who had the same experience like me will agree. Yours may be more interesting.