Here’s a preliminary layout of the Garden of Design workshop sample. The sample is square, so I cropped the photo, shown by the turquoise marks. I laid out the flowers (aka heart trim) and the puffs of greenery. There are a couple of shadows in the lower right part of the photo, which will be represented by some sheer dark material I have somewhere (brown lines drawn on the sample).
The proportion of the trim is just right for the flowers in the foreground. There’s plenty of room to represent most of the foreground flowers with the heart trim, so I’m off to the USM in a few minutes to knit them (separately, this time). They will go about where the yellow marks are. I will embroider some gray lines to capture the grasses shown in the photo.
The big question in my mind now is what to do about the flowers in the middle-ground. I’ll get the foreground done, and then show you a couple of photos of the possibilities, tomorrow, I hope.
I’m leaving for Iwannaknit ReTreat one week from tomorrow! With four workshops worth of samples and supplies, I won’t have room for the computer. But I will take a bunch of photos and post them afterwards, so you can see what a great time we have at ReTreat. You’ll want to start saving $$$$ for next year.