Gimp....love it. The piece here with the bullion knots at the edge is new work, embroidered last night. I have laid it here alongside an older piece.....purely for aesthetics, so it doesn't look paltry and lonely on its own. If you follow this linkyou will see a lot more gimp, page two has white work with gimp whilst page one is very colourful.
I consider last nights gimp to be a doodle, allowing me some thinking time. I have two pieces of work which are almost finished and two pieces of work in progress with class. In an ideal world I need to begin something else now....hence the thinking time.
I should be able to share a little bit of class work with you later this week too....fingers crossed.
Following on from this post.....I made more cloth, pieced strips of silk with cotton and metallic tissue. This one has a ''frothy'' feel, a lightness. That may alter when it's damp stretched....we shall have to wait and see.
So far there is minimal embellishment, I am picking this up in between other things...so many other things...beautiful things which are happening in class and things coming together for my France stash.
The piece from yesterday has been stitched up three sides and later today I will play a little with ideas for the lining. Adornments will be embroidered too....for edges.
This morning I have been creatively starved. I have been ironing. That's a good thing though, it's my nod to the domestic chore department which now gives me a free run for at least five days!! Time well spent then.
The ironing board piece...front and back now joined with a piece of patterned cloth ready to be stitched up three sides. Next on the list is the lining. The lining will also be embellished...I just haven't decided how yet......I am determined not to use the wrong pink again however....as I didhere.
Later today I will be making strides towards finishing this ironing board piece along with the lilac piece from earlier in the week. I will also be playing with emery sand which arrived today....
Yesterday I made cloth, cloth for bling, cloth for pin pillows. Cloth similar tothis, similar but different. Last night I managed a small amount of embroidery on the surface. I will show you tomorrow.
This pin pillow, this bling pin pillow, possibly my favourite pin pillow started life as a piece of cloth just like the piece of cloth here. I created the cloth myself. I then ''blinged'' it and hand embroidered it. There is enough cloth here for two pin pillows. Actually, I want to make half a dozen pin pillows so along with embellishing this cloth I will make more, today, this afternoon.....
(thank you for the input re the emery sand...especially Pamela!! I have managed to source a small amount. I stalk my postman with baited breath!)
Another embroidered reverse for a silk piece. I am undecided yet as the whether this should be a pocket or a pillow. I am leaning towards pillow and whilst I am on the subject.....does anyone know where I can get my hands on emery sand in the UK? It seems to be impossible to source.
For the reverse of this one I have added a strip of lace taken from the hankie I used on the front and edged it with a row of lilac bullion loops...cohesion....
There is now a link on the right hand side of the page to the new class which started a few days ago for those of you who may have missed it...where have you been? We are only a couple of days in and it's not too late to join us. Alongside pockets we are considering and creating all things ''France''....it's an international class lol...un, deux, trois....bonjour....and all that!
This piece could have easily been described as naked, (undressed). Basically I mean it has no hand embroidery added. If you look at yesterdays piece and this oneyou can see the difference hand stitch will make to this lace cloth. I need to create 20 pieces, 25 cm square of this........... no prizes for guessing what I will be doing this afternoon....
The surface of this piece has changed since you last saw it. There are mirrors, there is lace and there are bullion knots. This will be the first ''hoop'' piece I have made for France. It still needs a couple more mirrors and a little more lace before it's finished. I really feel like I am making progress for the event in France. I don't have any completely finished pieces yet but I have a few that are almost done, I have been organising labels for my work and I have sourced the materials for my workshop so I feel quite calm and in control. I hope it lasts.
The first day of class was a huge success yesterday too. (that's the feedback I've had so far) ...sigh of relief.....a confirmation that I'm moving in the right direction.
I have been asked a few times about ''London'', about the London gathering I held last year and whether it will be happening again. I'd like to get a sense of the demand for that. Can you let me know if you would be interested in me doing something similar again? Bear in mind I am hoping to hold classes from home later this year too so those of you quite near me may not want to go to London. (bear in mind also that there is NOTHING near me of interest to an embroiderer. We have a KFC and a football club....that's it)
In addition to the classes from home, which would be for a maximum of three people at a time I am hoping to hold one on one tuition/embroidery/cake eating days...again...would you be interested in that? I would be really grateful for any indication of whether or not these are good plans.
This morning I started to put Christmas away. I am half way there. I now need to hoover up a mountain of green needles and glitter......I will see you on the other side.
Remember the mistake I told you about here?I'm putting it right, an embroidered reverse for the ironing board pocketusing the correct colour. This one is getting more attention than I originally intended, there will be more embellishment than I had planned. I'm considering adding a strip of the patterned cloth at one edge too. What do you think? I'm also thinking of making tiny toggles for the open strips, the unembroidered strips between the bullion knots, again, what do you think?
Tomorrow I take Christmas down, put everything away. I then intend to do some sorting out, some organising, (yes, I know you've heard that before). It will then be all systems go for France. I leave England on April 17. How many days does that give me? Probably not enough but quite a few all the same.
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I doodled on white silk....then I added applique and hand embroidery, voila, a pocket. The reverse is embroidered, the lining is embroidered. It's finished but it's not finished if that makes sense? It doesn't? Sorry, there's one more thing to add but that's been held up because I need to order a vital component......more of that when it happens.
I love it, I do. It's for France. It's the first finished thing for France and if I get my act together and stop getting my colours mixed up I should have a couple more pieces finished quite soon.
This morning I was surrounded by lace and hankies.....I was drooling......more pockets, online learning......I do believe I am quite organised. The first post is ready for the morning and half of the next post is done too. It's not difficult to motivate yourself when you get to play with lace and hankies all day.
Last image......do you see it? It's more obvious in that one. Oops, I used the wrong pink. That'll teach me to pay attention. The new piece here was embroidered yesterday, a reverse for the ironing board pocket. When I removed it from the damp stretching board this morning I noticed I had spent all my time using the wrong colour.....oh dear, never mind. I'm not in despair. I can do it again and keep this piece as the starting point for something new.....every cloud and all that.
