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.
It's time to take a closer, more considered look at my current design project.
I have created and gathered a large amount of work and sometimes I'm blinded by it all.
Today I've collected a few pieces together for more focus, (less clutter) in order to move forward.
So now I'm digesting the information here, in this image. There's more clarity which will help the decision making and hopefully generate ideas going forward.
If you'd like to catch up on this current collection there are several links below.
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Last time it was buttons, today it's stitched papers.
I'm building a huge stash of complimentary bits and pieces for my current, ever growing design collection.
Who knows what will be next.
I am enjoying this one so much.
The collection of embroidered accessories for my latest notebook project is growing.
There are now buttons, weavings, fabric swatches, delicate embroidered papers and beaded overlays.
The beaded overlays will be used to enhance the notebook as I progress.
Fabric painting is happening in the background, in class, and to my girls....I made you a video this morning updating you on my progress.
A note for my subscribers.
I believe your emails weren't the best quality in terms of images.
I think, I hope, I have rectified that now.
Last time I was here it was all about the hand stitched overlays.
Today it's two new pages which will each have an overlay too.
I'm possibly going to add more to these, that's why they don't yet have an overlay.
The embellishment here is all hand stitch, scraps of cloth and scraps of paper too.
You may have noticed a little watercolour in the backgrounds.
I'm not sure of the gsm of the paper in this notebook.
It's quite thin and almost certainly not made to accept wet media but it didn't ...
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Hand stitched overlays for the pages in this little book.
They provide depth along with space to add more embellishment.
They are yet to be attached as I have plans for fabric swatches too and perhaps some little buttons for the pages, all coordinated of course.
In my last post I was rescuing homeless samples, adding more embellishment and joining them to create larger pieces. The pieces here today live in the same cabinet. The needlecase and pin pillow were created in class. The other two pieces here are stitched papers. Altered with machine stitch before hand embroidery was added. They are also homeless samples I guess. I'm
Hand stitched embellishments for this project.Yes, they were fiddly! My girls in class won't be shocked to hear that ha ha.The little square pieces are one inch in size, the tiny tag pieces measure one inch by half an inch.If you can't source pieces to fit with your colour and pattern choices then why not make them youself?
The design sheets here were created some time ago.Now they are inspiring this collection, informing next steps as I continue to develop my current body of work. The colour and pattern aren't what I am looking at here.Rather, I'm examining the composition of these large design sheets in order to feed where I go next with my current surface design explorations.If you look closely at the
This collection continues to grow.There are two new pieces with embroidered fabric inserts and a sprinkle of sequins.There will be four of these in total, two are still in progress.As this design exercise grows it is informing a new piece of work which will evolve in class. Fabric and fabric paints have been ordered!Now I'm getting impatient waiting.
