Surface design, a new design sheet, each torn piece of paper hand stitched to an A3 base of white.
The end goal here is a design collection which leads to the creation of a drawstring pouch.
As I am working on this in class it's slow going.
Videos are posted monthly so I'm trying to rein myself in and not get carried away!
No change in the numbers. I only wish I had enough sewing time to finish something.
I worked some on the Paint Chip Challenge this week. Block 2 is oil pastel over a rubbing plate. Block 3 is stamped.
I skipped blocks 4 and 5 because I wanted to continue with painted blocks. Block 6 is stenciled.
I will go back and pick up blocks 4 and 5 this week.
Fabric Added: 13.125
Fabric Used: 6.5 yards
Net Fabric Added: 6.625 yards
How did you do this week?
read moreI’ve been plugging away on the Paint Chip Challenge.
In a prior post I showed the gridded fabric. I decided to add boro-like stitching to the first block. My thread of choice for that is pearl cotton.
All the surface design will be black, grey, and possible white. I didn’t have any black or gray pearl cotton, but I did have white.
I decided to paint it. I didn’t have any black fabric paint, using acrylic instead. It came out a little stiff for my taste. I combined it with gray fabric paint, and lightened some of ...
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I finally started the paint chip challenge project. I found fabric that comes as close to the paint chip as I’m going to get. I masked the outside border with painter’s tape and gridded the center. The paint chip is in the upper right corner.
My first love in quilting is surface design. That’s the place where I lose myself, where time passes unnoticed. If you are a regular reader, you’d be hard pressed to know that based on recent projects. It’s time to fix that.
I have a sketch ...
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Do you remember the gingham drawstring pouch?
This is a small selection of the design work which accompanied that piece.
I am drawing on this collection to inform my current work, some of which you saw yesterday and I feel very fortunate to have all these resources at my fingertips.
Accessories, embellishments, adornments.
These have been made for some time, all part of a bigger collection, the little silk book, the wrapping cloth, the embroidered notebook.
Today I'm assessing, assessing embellishments, wondering what other forms of accessory I can create to complement this body of work.
Remember...your stash can never be too big!
We've been doing a little design work in class so these sheets created a while ago came out.
It's such a good creative exercise to examine pieces like this.
They reinspire and spark new ideas regardless of your current project.
Techniques used here are transferable
Colour, theme and pattern may differ but presentation technique can be used again and again.
A paper base, lots of French knots, some running stitch, fabric snippets, paper inserts, beads and sequins.
Just doodling really but hoping this evolves into a design sheet crammed with information and inspiration.
More has been added to this since I took these photographs.
I will show you that progress soon.
Another page completed in for this ever growing collection.
Next step here is an overlay.
The embroidered cloth piece relating to this work is also progressing along with a small embroidered fabric book.
The ideas keep coming.....
I have so many embroidered samples, I'm constantly questioning the best way to preserve them, to keep them safe, unscathed.
Large paper sheets are one option as are very large sketchbooks.
I'm still not sure which is the best way if I'm honest.
This is discussed in the video today.
What do you think?
It's a hardback notebook today, one of these (and no, I'm not on commission).
I can recommend stitching into one of these books.
There are pages of dots, graph paper and other linear patterns which make spacing so easy.
The paper is very receptive to needle and thread too.
I haven't actually worked into this one for a while and I'm tempted but I must finish some other things first.
You have been seeing a lot of stitching in notebooks recently.
Well....I have lots of those, embroidered/stitched notebooks.
Today it's a different one, an old one.
(you may have seen it at the 'other place')
There are lots of these little stitched/design/exploration pieces dotted around my house.
I'm tempted to keep sharing them with you.
My current project is all consuming.
I am not working on anything else.
A reminder, there's a wrapping cloth and a design notebook.
More painted cloth is being embellished for the wrapping cloth and 'different' overlays are being created for the design notebook.
There are plans for more hand made embellshments for the notebook to accompany my little mushroom tags.
Can you tell I am enjoying this?
Another stitched notebook....one from 'the other place'.
This one was created before my current piece which you are seeing regularly on here.
As you will notice, I didn't develop this one as fully as the book I am working on now.
I learnt from this one, (we learn from everything don't we) and I am learning from my current one.
It has occured to me to add to this one taking inspiration from current work but sadly I have a very limited supply of this paper.
Regardless, if I don't do anything else with this one ...
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I have started to add the hand stitched overlays to the pages of my little design notebook.
Little mushroom tags have also been added to some pages.
There is so much more I want to do in this little book.
(notebook measures 6x81/2 inches)
I have calculated how many more overlays I need to make....thirteen.
I best get going then.
Tags, embellishments, embroidered and stitched papers, tiny artist book pages....
All ongoing explorations of a design theme.
I'm having so much fun with this.
Now I'm wondering where I can go next.
New embroidered work.
Fabric paint and embroidery inspired by this collection.
There are lots of French knots and tiny snippets of cloth embellishing the painted areas along with a little running stitch.
There's along way to go with this one. It's developing over in class.
Small applique circles on each piece is the next step.
I will play with the placement of those later.
