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A follow on from my post yesterday, my plan for scattered flowers and a little book of traditional hand stitch.
A short video.
Apologies in advance for my sporadic posting here.
I'm going to be absent on and off for the next couple of weeks.....again.
In my last post I spoke about working with my hexagons, my grandmother's flower garden patchwork pieces.
This is that work so far, simple hand embroidery on small square pieces of white cloth.
Working in this way takes me back to my early 'wrapping cloth' days.
This piece and any more of these pieces won't become a wrapping cloth.
I am hoping to create a cloth book of 'traditional hand embroidery'.
Next for this piece is tiny hand embroidered flowers, a scattering.
A new, smaller page for a much smaller embroidered sample.
If you aren't familiar with what is going on here it is explained in the posts here and here.
I think I'm going to leave this work to one side for a short time.
I have hexagons to create with. They shout to me every time I glance at them ha ha.
More pages today, different pages though.
These tiny little books created with stitched tissue papers can be added to, new pages inserted at any time.
Today a short video, putting a new page together using scraps of paper and ribbon with a little thread wrap.
The pages I first spoke about here are now stitched.
This morning I put them together with past pages, already stitched pages and began the process of figuring out how to bind them together.
Whilst I was doing that I found more samples which need to be mounted which means more pages.....
Crack on Karen.
I regularly spend an evening sewing hexagons, one inch hexagons and then creating Grandmother's flower garden patchwork pieces.
It's good to have a stash of these.
They are useful for embellishing sketchbooks, cloth books or any piece of embroidery.
Below are just a few examples of how I have used these in the past.
I'm still sorting out here at home after having some work done on the house.
Have you ever emptied a cabinet or cupboard and when you go to put things back they don't fit in?
That's what I'm facing today.
How does all this fit in the space it came from?
A quick update for you on my progress with embroidery from yesterday.
Pages are being stitched and embroidered pieces are ready to be mounted.
I have posted the video from yesterday again in case you missed it.
This morning.....I am slowly returning my embroidered works to their proper place at home.
(I have had some renovation work completed on the house and these were put away, far away for safe keeping)
These pieces were never 'forgotten' but handling them again inspires and generates new ideas.
Mostly samples, these pieces deserve a proper home, deserve recognition and extra care.
So, paper pages for a bound sample book.
Hi everyone, how are you?
I'm kind of back but still a lot of sorting out to do at home.
Embroidery school girls.....I promised you a Zoom get together and I haven't forgotten but it may be another week or so.
My embroidery has been put away for safe keeping during the building work here.
This little book is an old one but it filled me with delight when I was sorting through my things so I thought I'd share it again.
A very quick video.