Stitching on my 'little book of embroidery' is progressing.
Meanwhile I'm thinking about how to present these pages, how the book form will take shape, how the pages will be bound.
I have one clear idea at the moment which will need to be sampled in stitch but I'm tryimg it out on a mini design sheet first.
Registration for my new online class closes on Wednesday.
You can read more about that here.
There's a new design sheet taking shape and a short video demonstration.
If you would like to know more about this process then please consider signing up for my new, short class which begins on June 3rd.
Although the class is embroidery focused I am happy to also include this type of process should you request it.
I promised you a part two, a follow on from the video yesterday.
Here it is.
I will be absent now for a few weeks.
Miss you already!
The very, very early stages of a design sheet.
This work is very much tied up with the embroidery on paper I have been sharing lately.
Tomorrow I'm hoping to video part two!
This isn't a quick process. Development of these pieces can take some time. It's also possible to come back much later and add extra.
Don't imagine for one minute that these are ever finished!
More papers were stitched yesterday to progress the piece from here.
These fine Japanese tissue papers respond beautifully to the sewing machine.
Gimp was also auditioned, laid alongside the stitched papers to see if it would work on these pieces and work has started on a second small piece.
In this video I speak about the challenges of extending this work by adding more stitched and torn papers to the edges.
I then had a lightbulb moment.....make small pieces and join them once they are embellished as I would do with a wrapping cloth, hence the second piece.
This work is inspired by previous design work which you can see in the following links,
In my last post I had gathered paper, lace and scraps of torn images.
This is the work which has resulted from that exercise.
It's still very much in progress and I am enjoying working on it so much.
I speak more about my plans for this piece in the short video today.
I forgot the pockets!! The little hand stitched books which I listed for sale yesterday have pockets to keep them safe and I forgot to say.
Sorry about that. You can see the pockets today in the first image.
There is just one of these left and you can have a better look at that here.
I spent yesterday creating textured papers, stitching on fine Japanese tissues which are now surfaces for hand embroidery.
I have a plan.....let's hope it works.
These stitched papers will be torn and pieced to create a background for a design sheet which will be embellished with lace, patterned papers and hand embroidery.
Wish me luck. x
Sketchbooks, ledgers....I have quite a few of these.
A lot of inspiration for embroidered pieces on cloth comes from looking back at past work, sketchbooks, images, cloth books, samples.
It refreshes and reminds.
As far as possible I approach working in a ledger/sketchbook in the same way I approach working on cloth.
Working on paper is obviously very different to working on cloth, it requires more patience and care but I don't think there is an embroidery process which is meant for cloth that I haven't attempted on paper.
2024 Embroidery School information here.
Some of the little embroidered snippets I showed you yesterday, intended for artist book pages have been hijacked to use on something else.
It occured to me that these embroidered pieces were all born from a recent design collection I created in an online class.
I then couldn't resist looking again at that work and beginning a new piece of embroidery on silk dupion.
It's a distraction but that's not a negative.
Let's see where this latest diversion takes me.
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.