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The final page, the last embroidered paper piece which will complete this artist book.
I'm tempted to start another one....hmmmm.
First though I need to finish the pocket I am embroidering to keep this one in.
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Can you tell I have been making Suffolk puffs? and little buttons?
This is the first piece of a 'pocket' I am creating for this artist book.
Thinking ahead....it will need sides....now there's a challenge.
I'm also going to have to make a lot more buttons in order to embellish that whole seam.
Work in my latest artist book continues....they do take a long time to fill especially if like me you don't know when to stop.
Or is it 'don't want to stop'?
The piece in the foreground of the first image you have seen before here. I decided to add another layer to that one and embellish it a little more.
Later today i will tie these pieces in and see how many more pages there are still to fill.
I'm also debating with myself, wondering should I embroider a pocket for this one, a place of safekeeping.
The little ball buttons (if you can spot them...there are two) I made those myself.
They are rather addictive to create and I'm amassing quite a pile.
(I may vanish for a while. I might be needed for nanna duties at the other end of the country. If I do disappear I should be back at the end of next week)
This post is about paper, not gingham. The gingham is merely a photography aid....
Stitched papers featured here too and these today are a continuation of that plan.
Lace cloth is also part of that plan but I haven't had chance to create any more of that since this post.
As the date on that post is November 9 it would seem I'm not making speedy progress!
There's still a long way to go, crack on Karen
I've added a little colour to the next page in this little artist book. The beaded edge was worked a couple of days ago.
It's really coming together now and might even get finished in the not too distant future.
To see more of this piece just scroll down past this post, it's all I have been working on recently apart from 'class' stuff which I can't show you yet, oh and yesterday I made more papers. I will show you those next time.
Another page in this little book is finished although the work isn't tied in yet.
I leave that final act until I decide what is going on the next page.
I've also made some little buttons for extra adornement. I had to stop at three last night because it was time for my beauty sleep but I hope to make few more today.
If you scroll past this post there is more on this little boook in the previous two posts should you have missed it.
Also....I got quite a shock this morning.....the video from this post has had over 2000 views on YouTube!
Blimey....
Remember this post?
I have moved this little book on with some pieced vintage white and hand embroidery.
The edge of the page has also been altered, cut down and tiny pom poms have been added there.
(if you are not seeing images and can only see code where they should be, please click the code and the image should appear. I am struggling to see the images here, yet again a Typepad issue...silently screaming)
These newly embroidered white pieces are being auditioned as possible page fillers for this little, unfinished artist book.
The large piece is too big but the smaller one is definitely a 'possible'.
That won't stop me from putting another little composition together this afternoon though as there is more than one page here that needs attention.
The development of this piece is making me very happy.
If you compare the image today with these I hope you can see the development of the pattern, the altering and extension of the design.
My hope now is that by altering the size of the rose pattern I will have more hand embroidery options on those surfaces.
(I'm late today.....I have been to Scotland and back in 7 hours.....go me!)
Stash building continues, this time with paper.
Earlier in the week it was cloth.
These papers receive hand stitch so well and it's always a relief to find some in my stash when I am putting an artist book together.
Equally, it's extremely disappointing when I don't have any to hand.