The idea for this piece came from the girls, Rachel and Sarah, over on their YouTube channels, and can be found using #roxysjournalofstitchery. This one being volume 4. They came up with the Treasure Hunt slowstitched project in June of 2023 and planned it out to last 6 months and provided us with a total of 12 prompts to work with.
I began this project by laying out a mood board. Basically a collage of fabrics and notions to tweak the creative juices and prepare me for the journey ahead. I choose a color pallette and a theme, then went in search of a linen to use as my base.
The linen I choose was a white silk damask cloth with beautiful blue tatting at each end. The cloth measured 14.5" x 22". I folded over the top to create a sleeve and stitched it down with a herringbone stitch. I then decided to layout a few fabrics to create some background interest, as I wasn't sure at this point what the end result was going to be, and I had no idea what the prompts were at this point. I tried not to dwell on the end results but instead just let the flow of my needle guide me on this journey.
The following pictures tell the tale of this wonderful journey as I let the prompts guide me along the way.
PROMPT 1 - MONOGRAM
PROMPT 2 - VINTAGE LACE
PROMPT 3 - FAVORITE FABRICS
PROMPT 4 - HEARTS/LOVE
PROMPT 5 - EMBROIDERY
PROMPT 7 - NATURE/BOTANICAL
PROMPT 8 - BUTTONS
PROMPT 9 - FOUND TREASURE
PROMPT 10 - WORDS
PROMPT 11 - WEAVING
PROMPT 12 - SENTIMENTAL ITEM
Many of these prompts were included more than once throughout this piece and some of the inclusions represented more than one prompt but overall I am quite happy to have completed this piece using all the prompts as required and am delighted to say the mystery has been solved.
Thank you for checking in and hope you enjoyed having a peek at what I've been up to these past 6 months and hope you will check back again soon for a trip down memory lane as I document Volumn 1 thru 3 of Roxy's Journal of Stitchery.
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