I've started, I've begun to put a ledger page together in the manner of doodle doo using my new sparkly things. (if you don't know what doodle doo is there is a link in yesterdays post)
This is at the early stage, the very beginning. I embroidered last night, this morning I cut paper and titivated paper a little. There is more titivating and stitching to be done before I mount this. I can't emphasise enough how much this helps, a little bit of playing, a little bit of faffing. It really does inform an idea, it produces more ideas, it moves a design forward. It even does all of that if you don't like what you produce, you learn about your preferences, your dislikes, what not to do.
Will this actual piece be translated into cloth? Replicated? Probably not. What it will do is inform a surface, a choice of sparkly things, what lives with what, patterning and placement.....
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spend time in ineffectual activity."we can't faff around forever"