Karen Ruane

leaving for a while

I'm saying bye for a while. Major house renovation begins on Monday so all embroidery related 'stuff' has been moved to safety (images).

I'm hoping to be back just as quick as I can.

Miss you already x

Suffolk puffs and seams, a wrapping cloth.

Lots of images and a short video today.

This wrapping cloth is a right mish mash of pieces.

I speak in the video about picking up random samples, created some time ago and forming them in to what will be a wrapping cloth of samples.

Last night I made Suffolk puffs to adorn seams.

I hope you will keep coming back to see how this one turns out.....

 

pockets and buttons

Yesterday I gave you a glimpse of the wrapping cloth I have been putting together in 'embroidery school'.

That video is at the foot of this post if you missed it.

Today it's pockets and embroidered buttons, also from embroidery school.

(the pockets are from past works which were used as examples during our current class)

One thing I learnt from this particular class....4 weeks is not long enough.

 

 

Gimp

We have been working with gimp over in Embroidery School.

The possibilities for surface embellishment with this beautiful cord are endless.

A very short video for you today......

 

yes, it's another wrapping cloth.

I'm here.....sorry I have been away so long, personal stuff.

This piece is what I have mostly been working on whilst I've been 'gone'.

A very brief show and tell.

 

surfaces for hand stitch

This week in embroidery school.....creating unique surfaces for hand embroidery.

Lace cloth, snippet cloth, stitched papers.

This was also a good opportunity to build up my stash, I love a big stash of these pieces.

It's not too late to join us in class.

You get access to all videos from the start which include embroidered buttons and piecing a wrapping cloth.

In addition you have lifetime acces to all resources.

To read more just go here.

 

assessing....

 

Yes, I know there's a bit of clashing going on here. That's a good thing.

The white silk piece will be a wrap/cloth book for these samples....it's all explained in the video below from my original post about this project.

My thinking.....have the cover completely different to the content, it is after all a piece of embroidery in its own right.

I've had it all together today as I've been measuring for the pages which will be embellished too but probably in a way that is more in keeping with the actual samples.

 

scraps of cloth

I never throw anything away.....at least I never throw away little offcuts or scraps of cloth. You never know when you might need them.

There's a lot of things happening here that I can't share yet but this image is a tiny glimpse of what I have been doing this morning.

I'm hoping to share more of this later in the week when the girls in class have seen it.

 

creating surfaces for hand embroidery

This morning....all things sewing machine.

Lace cloth, snippet cloth, stitched papers.

Creating unique surfaces for hand embroidery.

Video demonstrations for 'embroidery school'.

more lace and three prairie points

This piece is growing quickly now I think.

It feels like I'm almost there although once I have finished with applique and hexagons I will be scattering tiny spots of cross stitch across some of the white space.

You may be able to just make out some little areas of cross stitch in the second picture.

The true colour is a pale lemon although it looks more green here.

There will be more of that before I call this piece finished and then of course I will need to create and embellish the lining.

Here though, the main focus is the lace and prairie points which I spoke about in my last post.