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More has been added to the pieces you saw in my last post.

What I love most about these pieces is the irregular edges which come from tearing papers, overlaying papers.

Curved lines of buttonhole stitch, bullion knots and French knots emphasize those irregualr edges. 

It's then really exciting to find snippets of white to add to that surface and continue embellishing. 

Today I realised I need to stitch more papers in order to finish this piece.

Another process for these compositions which I love. 

       

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More white today, another diversion.

This time it's paper.

A stitched paper base, embellished with hand embroidery and snippets of vintage and new cloth. 

There are plans for crystal buttons, seed beads and pearls too.

The large hand made ball buttons may find a place....we'll see how and if they fit further along in this process. 

       

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White.

Piecing.......vintage white, white trim, white couture fabcric snippets. 

These pieces will be embroidered with white....bullion knots, French knots, tiny running stitches. 

I intended to create a short video...ha.

It's 17 minutes long but you can skip through it.

(Sorry for my absence...again. I have had facial surgery. It kept me quiet for a while x) 

You can enlarge the image by clicking on it x 

       

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white and patchwork, a new hand embroidered pouch

lace cloth

sampling embroidery stitches on white cloth

a design sheet in progress and embroidery on lace cloth

hand embroidery on lace cloth

an embroidered pocket

embroidering pockets

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white for an artist book

lots of bullion knots!

white.....hand embroidery