Played around in the dye garden this morning and gave this thrifted tie vest a little upgrade.

#naturallydyed #flowerpounding

Flower Pounding with Hand Embroidery with Maria Andrus For Adult Students 18+ $42 + $35 supply fee Saturday, June 7, 2025 10am – 1pm Come learn the craft of flower pounding with fresh flowers on fabric. Finish off your piece with the basic skill of han…

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A 4” mixed media embroidery piece featuring 3 hammered marigold petals and a coreopsis tinctoria flower, hammered to extract their natural dye. The orange marigold petals have been embroidered to somewhat resemble a tulip flower, with one standing straight up, a short one leaning to the left, and the third reaching far to the left, behind the other flowers. The coreopsis flower is on the right of the hoop, with French knots in the center like pollen and golden threaded lines radiating out from the center. The flower hand stitched embroidery in whipped backstitch around the edge of the petals. The grasses underneath the flowers are straight stitches in green with golden French knots scattered throughout the grasses. This image shows the piece in full sun.

The same embroidery piece, but in different lighting- taken inside and more shadowed, but the golden coreopsis flower shows up better, though the orange marigold petals look fainter in color.

I thought I’d share my first #mixedmedia #embroidery and #naturaldye piece I made. I used #marigold petals and my favorite #coreopsistinctoria flower. I gifted this to a friend as a house warming gift. #flowerpounding is so fun & cathartic, I can’t wait for spring/summer! #art #botanicalart

Another bit of a reach for today’s #januarty theme of #broken, but I did find that it often helps to disassemble or break apart a flower for #flowerpounding. I haven’t gotten to play with flowers or #naturaldye for a while now, I miss it. Can’t wait for coreopsis season this year, my fave dye 🌺