GALLERY OF EMBROIDERIES
A small selection of Claire's embroidered work
Tree Line
Coppice of trees stitched with a combination of free machine embroidery techniques.
Autumn Wood
A combination of free machine embroidery and simple hand stitches.
This embroidery is available as a printed greeting card.
Summer Cornfield 2
This is another version of a summer cornfield with painted contrails and cirrus clouds.
Through the garden gate
Mix of machine embroidery, yarn snips and a hand painted background.
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Bluebell Dreams
This embroidery is a mixture of imaginary and realistic landscape. The leaves and bluebells are created with loose tension bobbin embroidery.
English Riviera
This embroidery is a step by step project from my book. It is stitched onto satin lining fabric, metallic lame and cotton fabric.
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This embroidery is available as a printed greeting card.
Sunlit bluebell wood
This version of the bluebell wood has hand embroidered leaves. Painted detail to add shadows to the tree trunks.
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Little Robin
This robin was a step by step project in my book. He is free machine embroidered with hand stitched details.
A Robin is not just for Christmas
A combination of free motion embroidery and digitized embroidery. Machine stitch and trapunto quilting add form to the body.
This embroidery is available as a printed greeting card.
Rustic Sheep
Free Machine embroidery project from my book. Mixed thread including cotton, rayon and wool cobine to create the texture of the fleece.
Robin in the Snow
This robin is part of a project in my book. After completion claire felt the background was dull so she handpainted into the embroidery and background fabric.
This embroidery is avaiable as a printed greeting card.
Knight Errant
Free machine embroidery on canvas of an imaginary fairy tale character "as the wind swept his heart away he knew"
Lady B
Free Machine embroidery on silk roving appliqed to calico. Lady B is one of the first faces stitched by Claire
Snow Princess
Fantasy embroidery before frozen was a thing. Free machine embroidery on canvas with hand stitched details.
This embroidery is available as a printed greeting card.
Icarus and Medusa
This design originated as an etching at college. Here it is created in free machine embroidery.
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