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The first two pages for my next collection of hand embroidered artist books are very much in progress.
More papers need to be stitched, altered before I can go much further and I also need to make more tiny stitched snippets.
Those things are very much on my 'to do' list and I hope to get started later today.
Progress from yesterdays post.....
My embroidery hoop is now filled with flowers.
The open spaces, the unworked spaces....they are cutting out allowances.
I can't wait to start stitching these onto pages in my little books.
My little hand stitched books sold out very quickly last week, thank you again.
I have been asked if there will be any more for sale, the answer is yes.
This is the start of that process which has been explained in the short video today.
Little gingham snippets need to be created as page embellishments, the ones partially worked here will be little collections of flowers.
It's also another opportunity for me to praise the usefulness of gingham, today for its use with cross stitch.
I would have made more of these little books regardless of the possibility of selling them.
They are delightful to create and feel so very delicate in your hand.
There are two videos today, updates on my latest wrapping cloth.
The first is mainly chat and the pinning of a seam.
In the second I begin embellishment of that seam.
Wrapping cloth update. 1.
Wrapping cloth update. 2.
In this post a few days ago I was speaking about how looking through past works never fails to inspire.
It's also a good way to look at pieces with fresh eyes to see if anything can be added.
This morning I was doing just that with paper based pieces from my last class.
I explain more in the video.
Thank you so much for loving my little books from yesterday. They have all gone! Should I make some more?
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Do you remember in this post I was looking through some of my embroidery?
Well I found this little doodled and stitched sheet in amongst my cloth pieces. I have no idea how it got there, it shouldn't have been there and that will explain why it's a little dog eared.
Anyway, I was working with hexagons yesterday for my latest wrapping cloth and as this little sheet is a kind of hexagon doodle I was compelled to lay my hexagon pieces on it.
Has it informed? It has actually although I definitely don't need another distraction at the moment.
I will bank this one.
Sold out!! Thank you so, so much x
Five hand embroidered artist books, now available in my shop.
You have seen these pieces progress over the past weeks, from the stitching of papers to create the pages to the embroidery of the tiny scraps which adorn each page along with the further embellishment of pages using masses of bullion knots, a litlle buttonhole stitch and a few French knots.
You also saw the creation of the gingham pockets which each of these lives in for safe keeping.
The description here sounds a little like a marathon but I have to say, I have loved every minute of creating these. I'm not going to stop.
There is a delicacy to each piece, beautiful to handle, fragile yet heavily embellished.
There's a closer look at these little books in the video today.
My table has been full of stitched pieces today, some finished, some unfinished.
These recaps are a good way of becoming reinspired and also of reminding yourself about those unfinished pieces which have languished for far too long.
I adore gingham, memories of gingham as a child, memories of grandmothers and gingham and apart from that.....using gingham means I am able to cut a straight line without measuring and marking.
Today, a short video showing a little embroidery on gingham along with some chat.
I apologise for my thumb too. I really should have covered it up.
My nail came off and it's healing......I promise it's clean!
(Web stitch is demonstrated more fully in this post).
There has been a lot of interest in the pouch I showed yesterday in my latest video.
A couple of photos of it for you today.
The background fabric was purchased in Portugal last year.