Now that you've got some blooms in mind, lets start playing with our composition.  

While we'll define the exact stitches for our blooms in the following days, having our composition drawn out allows us to explore exactly what angle (and stage of life) we want to capture our blooms at. 

The video below shares some artwork and methods that will help guide you through this process!

A funny thing occurred to me as I researched this stitchalong… it seems, aside from Georgia O'Keefe, that many women artists who work with florals are grossly underrepresented. 

As though flowers are not to be taken seriously - and I once again, for maybe the seven thousandth time in this life, realized that, I too would rather not be taken seriously (can I be taken happily? Joyously? In full delight and bloom?)

I realized that is why I wrote off the art establishment so many years ago. 

I realized that is why, perhaps, I chose a topic so filled with delight and pleasure to focus on during this stitchalong. 

To open up conversations on what makes art? Is it seriousness? Is it intellect? Or is the pure joy of what we are intrinsically drawn to and enraptured by?

YOUR ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS SESSION... 

Develop your composition for your overall design - consider how the essence of your selected blossoms can best be expressed; what stage do you want to illustrate them at? 

How might they take up space on your fabric? 

Draw these out on paper, sketch a few versions of your blooms, use reference images and photos if you want to (I nearly always do) and nail your overall composition. 

You can also start to consider possible color palettes for your overall compositions, and if you maybe want to include a little extra pizazz like beads or sequins or sparkly threads - we won’t be going over how to apply these, but if you know how to use them - this stitchalong is a great opportunity to get them out!