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Yes, just bling. It is different, it has more silver kid leather, more French knots, more glass beads, more lozenge beads, more gimp. It has been damp stretched. Next time you see it you won't recognise it. It will be transformed with the girls in 5 into a luxurious pin pillow. I am going to stick pins in it. I'm assuming Marie Antoinette had a blingy thing for pins so why can't I have one too?
On Monday I will have news.
If I say London.
If I say next year.
If I say hello!!
More on Monday.
Reconnecting with white? Well, yes but it was the buttons that did it. I found them yesterday. They weren't lost, I came across them whilst I was rummaging for something else and I had an overwhelming desire to use them. There are twelve of these in total, three were enough to satisfy the craving.
It also gave me a chance to play with a little of the vintage white that came home with me from London. So, like someone who didn't have anything pressing at all to do I spent yesterday evening doodling with my needle on scraps of white.
The ''to do'' list, the pressing one remains untouched.......
A new pin pillow is taking shape, this one with more subdued colours, a subtle piece of Liberty fabric. Three seams are embroidered with bullion knots, one with stab stitch. There are two prairie points and I have begun a length of flowery long thingies, there are more of those to do.
I was between creative ''jobs'' and put this together as a filler, to pick up at those times when for whatever reason I can't continue with a bigger project. Yesterday I was waiting for ink to dry on work for doodle, gather, create. Out came the fabric boxes and hey presto!
Thank you so much for the response to my hankie cloth. It caused quite a stir. It's such a happy piece to work on, non precious in the ''don't touch'' sense, relaxing, innocent, fresh.....There is a lot of work still to do on it, I have plans for additional embellishment on the surface but first I have eight hankies to secure with running stitch.
This is what had me in raptures the other day, my hankie cloth. It's coming together, nine embroidered handkerchiefs attached to a backing of cotton cloth, one stitched down with running stitch, eight tacked/basted and the whole thing minutes away from more titivation.
Unashamedly......I love it, adore it, can't take my eyes off it and it's not even damp stretched yet so imagine how I will feel once that is done. There is more needed here, more adornment for the surface...I'm on it.
Yesterday I said I would show you the bling piece today but I was concerned you wouldn't think it was any different....it is.....it is. Anyway, the pouch is also different in two small ways so I'm showing you both.
What's new on the pouch? The run of bumpy, flowery things is finished and now extends all the way across. There are also three new hexagons at the opposite end.
What's new on the bling piece? It's harder to identify but trust me, there are more silver kid leather pieces, there are more lozenge shaped beads and many more French knots.
I can't hang about today, I've got videos to make...doodle videos. I may even get my artists ink out!! I use the term ''artist'' very loosely.
It's finished.
I love it.
There are bumps and knots and points and a tab.
There are loops.
It's squishy.
It's quite big.
The edges are finished with buttonhole stitch.
The back is plain.
I finished this last night. Then I picked up the bling. You will most likely see that tomorrow and think it's no different, trust me. I have added more silver leather and more knots. By this time tomorrow it will have even more.
This morning I have been to heaven and back. I made a video for the girls in five which they will get tomorrow and I can't tell you how in love I am with the piece concerned...Tuesday, you will see it Tuesday, it 's a promise, a solemn vow.
The ninth hankie is now finished, embroidered, damp stretched. This time next week I hope to have all nine embroidered hankies placed on their backing cloth ready for more titivation. I had planned to do that this week but there was a little bit of miscalculation with fabric sizes for backing which resulted in one lesson of class becoming a fiasco. Let's just say I learned from my ineptitude and won't be making that mistake again.
It's a pillow, driven by the pouch I am working on. It's a lot smaller, it's for pins. I am using silk embroidery thread on this one and there are prairie points along with a simple tab. At the moment I switch between the two, an hour on the pouch, an hour on the pin pillow. This one will be finished a lot sooner I think.
Going on behind the scenes are handkerchiefs, all nine of them are now embellished and damp stretched. Next week in Simply Stitch 5 I am going to put them all together. I love this stage of a large cloth, placement of pieces, attaching to the backing, more embroidery, final touches. I will definitely show you how that is progressing some time next week I promise.
I'm going to have a little moan now. I am so very frustrated. There is definitely something wrong with my feed. My stats have bombed. One day recently I apparently had NO visits which I know is not true as I had comments and e mails. I know there have been problems with the e mail subscriptions and the feature on here which allows me to add the ''you may also like'' featured posts at the end of each blog post doesn't work. Stats are not important to a lot of people however they are to me. It matters to me that I'm not talking to myself and that I have a wide reach. I am at a loss as to what to do.
Doodles, paper, cloth, zip fasteners, all being gathered to inspire. I'm mixing them up, seeing what else works with this piece, will that piece live with a zip, will this piece benefit from an overlay. Questions, questions, getting my plans moving for doodle, gather, create.
I love having all this stuff out, visible. I love to just look at it. It feeds so many things not just paperwork, it's exciting....or is that just me? You should try it. Lay out lots of bits and pieces, move them around, lay one on top of another. Place buttons on an edge loosely, see how it would look fastened to something else, lay zips between bits of cloth and paper. Dedicate your afternoon to playing, mixing up.....
Oh boy, I'm in love with this. I've started to add more flower, bumpy bit, padded things along another section and wow....in the bottom image you can see how many more still need to be embroidered, I can't wait.
I've had a little bit of a dilemma about this one. I started to make it for the purpose of selling it what with Christmas coming up and all that. However, after lots of thought and angst and pondering....I have decided I can't do it. I'm going to have to keep it. It's going to be a gift from me to me.
There is a pin pillow taking shape in the same way as this with bumpy floral things going on on the surface. Let's hope that makes it's way to the shop. We shall see.