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Embroidery is continuing on the lace cloth from here.
Hand made buttons, hand ruched cloth, pleated edgings.
Lace cloth has been cut up and added at the edges here too, giving extra seams which are ripe for titivating!
My first artist book class for three years begins one week from today.
Sunday morning, creating video content for Sewing Circle.
We're on design sheets at the moment so it's all things paper.
I've started to hand embroider onto the lace cloth from here. A couple of small titivations have also been added to one piece, ruched silk habotai and a ruched edge from a vintage hankie.
These fabric pieces are laid on Artist books. They are out so I can consider day one of 'Artist Books 2023' which begins in a little over a week from now.
The books pictured here have folded pages, altered pages and I am making plans for self assembled pages which mimic this type of page manipulation.
Think pages with folded corners of contrasting papers, think patched paper pages.....my list is growing.
The other thing happening now is seeing my embroidered lace cloth laid here has me wondering about sequins for those pieces because I can see those on one of the pages.
Decisions, decisions.
Embroidery on gingham continues including creating little compositions using the gingham swatches along with stitched papers and hand embroidery.
Also growing is my pile of machine stitched surfaces which will be enhanced with hand embroidery and which I know from experience will be very useful for the upcoming artist book class.
These pieces won't be exclusively used there though. I also like to have a little pile of these after they are embellished, when they are adorned and finished.
This one has a base of patched, stitched papers layered at one edge with lace.
The gingham piece is attached with running stitch and a frill has been added at the lower edge and the right hand side.
Gingham patches are coming in handy for extra adornment too.
I've also been replenishing my supplies.
The machine thread is most needed from these, I have a lot more paper to stitch.
Artist books 2023 begins 2 weeks today!
Please go here if you want to read more.
Stitched gingham and stitched papers, so many French knots, bullion knots and web stitches.
So much sewing machine trickery to create unique paper surfaces.
Saturday, today, is the day I try and put together some little compositions with these pieces.
Then there will be more hand stitch.
Four new gingham swatches/tokens have been added to the pile which is growing fast.
(the new ones are the four pieces grouped neatly in the images.)
In the hoop...another gingham swatch, bigger this time.
Also today, hand stitched and wrapped buttons. I am practicing here, refreshing before demonstarting a 'how to' with my subscription groups sometime next week.
Lots going on here.
I have had visitors all week (they've gone now) so my weekend will be spent preparing for Artist Books 2023.
I've been looking at some very, very, very old sketchbooks.....
Artist books, notebook stitching, embellishing paper.....
This little book is very much 'in progress' and will continue to be going forward.
The double page spread here was started in one of my Zoom get togethers and I managed to finish it last night.
There is collage, there are French knots and bullion knots, there are simple stab stitches and tiny pom poms.
The left edge......oversized white sequins.
Artist books 2023 begins in on March 7. You can read more here.
These web stitch 'studies' on gingham are tiny, varying in size between three by two inches and two by two inches.
I do have a plan for them which I can't share yet, I need to make lots more too.
I have laid them on my new needlecase. The needlecase was created ages ago, a couple of years maybe but it's new to me as I intend to use it for the first time.
Now another shout out for my first artist Book class in three years.
You can read more about that here.