I have had this little book for a while. Some of the pages have been worked into, some of them have had small pieces of stitch mounted onto them. Yesterday I was inspired to stitch a page in here after working on a pile of stitched paper and cloth for simply stitch 3. Ideas, ideas, ideas.....and lots of them. The stitched paper you see here has now informed, shifted my focus to stitched cloth. You can see that later this week I hope.
Stitched cloth, inspired by paper, moving to cloth, stitching in books....
More pieces for my body bag ledger....I am moving away from the colour scheme slightly to enable use of this patterning in another piece. I am aiming for similar tones and surface marks but want the new piece to be more subtle than the actual body bag.
Before I get lost, overpowered by all this information I need to place it in some kind of order whilst making notes, annotating, perhaps also doing a few pencil doodles.
I wanted to share this with you today. I think it's the most amazing video I have seen for quite some time. It is just under 4 minutes long and if you have a love of cloth, of stitch, of the process then you will love this too.
You did see some of these pieces yesterday, today however a new piece is in play, top image, top piece. I find this a great way to feed my ideas, to generate new ideas, to push my thinking forward. There are more pieces being created for this collection and there are new pieces to show another day, when the Simply Stitch Three group have seen them, seen how I do it, listened to my thought process.
Today has flown. I had lots of plans this morning, I am behind. I don't know why. I haven't been idle....the clock just ticked too fast. Maybe it's me who needs to speed up....less coffee? Perhaps, it does use up vital seconds walking to the kettle.....
Liberty prints.......for the ledger, with hooks and eyes, watercolour paint and cut away paper areas. My ledger is getting a lot of attention at the moment. The lace cloth here is also for my ledger, there are plans for more of that and more Liberty prints and more hooks and eyes....more drawing, more painting, more playing. It's time spent in a valuable way. It informs, it feeds, it generates ideas....I could go on forever with these, so many ideas and yes, I am writing them down.
and to answer a question I have been asked a few times, yes, ledger work will feature in Simply Stitch 4.
It's finished, backed, edged, lined, titivated to death, complete. It even has a tiny button, (3rd and 5th image). Now I have to finish the lemon one, the handkerchief one. It's exciting, for me anyway.....two finished pieces, a sense of achievement.
Meanwhile, the sewing machine is being worked to death. Ledger work for Simply Stitch 3 is happening, pages and pages of ideas. Tomorrow I can show you what I did with a tiny scrap of the Liberty cloth.
Yes, this one's for me, a pouch of my own. To be honest I could keep all of them couldn't I. Nobody forces me to pass them on but how many pouches does one girl need? I didn't even want another one until I found homes for the last two. I must have been feeling neglected.
This has had a little more work. The buttonhole has been attached, there is a seam of bullion knots and a small applique circle edged with chain stitch. I have also added a tiny tab, the finished edge snipped straight off the handkerchief this cloth is from. I then decided to lay it against other pieces just to look....who knows, it may spark something else in the future if I ever browse these particular images again.
I felt I should post this today by way of explanation for one of the hexagon pieces on yesterdays post. After reading some of the comments and a couple of e-mails I wanted to clarify that I did make the lace hexagon piece.....but I made it a long time ago. So today you win a video of that ledger, which I am almost certain you've seen before but perhaps you forgot or perhaps you are a new visitor....
There are a few things going on in the background that I can't show on here yet. There are also a few things that can't be worked on whilst you are sitting on the sofa, feet up, watching TV of an evening. It's impossible for me to sit at home without having something to work on so I pieced a new cloth yesterday evening, something to keep my hands busy whilst I become addicted to ''Breaking Bad''....yes, I know it's been over for ages but my son convinced me to watch it on Netflix. I got through four episodes last night and am desperate to watch more....not now though, not until it goes dark and I've exhausted the sunshine we have today. Yes, you heard right, sunshine. I know, I had forgotten what it was too.
Anyway, I digress...so, the new cloth. It will be a pouch, for me. I make pouches and then they leave, off in a puff of a smoke. I do have a large one that I keep my muslin in but I need another one. Oh well, OK, I don't NEED another one, I WANT another one. Don't hold your breath waiting for me to finish this one. There isn't a deadline. It's an easy pick up and put down piece for when I am between things. So far I have added hexagons to one seam and created a single hand bound buttonhole, on a patch, to be added somewhere to the surface.
Now I'm off to create for a ledger whilst the sun is shining. Making hay....of the ledger kind.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Prov. If you have an opportunity to do something, do it before the opportunity expires
It's that word again, my new favourite word......evidence. This is evidence that I haven't been slacking this week. I have had a brilliant week creatively and by that I mean I have had fun, loved everything I have done and am excited about what I have still to do.
Pouches have been titivated to near completion, there is a new page in doodle dooand the body bag ledger has been added to with plans for a lot more development in terms of sampling and design....
Oh......and Simply stitch 4 is filling up nicely. Thank you!!
I'm making good progress with this work, with these 7 inch embroidered squares for a new cloth book of embroidery. The paper piece featured in my last post and I...
