I love making paella, I love eating paella and now I love drawing and stitching it! I picked up a travel brochure recently and noticed a lovely little illustration of paella to accompany an article about fresh food and the design was so inspiring I decided to make use of the idea. Firstly I painted a full size (plate!) version in watercolours and black pen and then gathered together some suitable fabrics.
I appliqued the seafood, lemons and prawns with bondaweb, plus the peas and peppers, just using a little machining to emphasise the details and anchor the fabrics. I then infilled all the background with seed stitch, using a standard variegated dmc thread, all six strands. It took a long time, but I do find seed stitch very relaxing, and it perfectly replicated the grains of rice! This project was great fun to do, spontaneous idea that just worked well!
JOLLIETEXTILES 
Fabulous x
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I’ll put it on the menu for when you come home!
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Elaine,
You have been busy with two blog posts in two days! I love both the pieces. You are very talented. Have you been away as up until yesterday you have been very quiet?
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I have been taking plenty of photographs Jane – inspiration for future projects.
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Totally yummy! Do you do deliveries 😉
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Once you start thinking about food ideas it’s very hard to stop! I’ve done seafood and vegetables – now maybe fruit?
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Very whimsical xx
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Really enjoyed doing it – might even frame it for the kitchen!
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