I've been adding little details to the embroidered pages you saw yesterday whilst also working on a three piece page.
The three piece page, the work with sequins, isn't finished. I'm considering where to go with that one.
Meanwhile I am stitching more scraps for the embroidered pages with gingham.
I'm on blue checks now.....
Another panel has been added to this cloth. The seam? I resisted beads and pompoms, I made Suffolk puffs instead.
There's quite a lot going on here. There are half flower garden motifs, padded applique, pleating, embroidered knots and don't forget the beads and little pompoms that are out of shot.
The band from this post is now attached too using a combination of straight stitch and bullion loops.
I will show you that next time.
There are also plans for pompoms on there.
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More paper embroidery, this time with extra lace, lots of pockets, bullion knots and hand wrapped ball buttons.
These images were taken with the new paper piece laid on one of my embroidered throws. As it's dark and grey here this allows the embroidered paper piece to be better captured, the details especially.
There's a short video in this post where I embellish the cloth you see today, adding sequins to an embroidered stem. This cloth surface is now finished, these images show more of the detail.
I had been toying with the idea of using this cloth to make a pouch in which I could store bindings and sequins but I've decided against that. This will now be a small coverlet, a backed piece of embroidered silk which will be easy to pick up and put down in order it can be examined for stitch ideas, for composition ideas, for colour inspiration. Last night I began embroidery on a silk panel for the reverse of this. When that is complete I will make plans for the edges, for beading perhaps.
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I am posting my podcast again today. I will continue to post this until Wednesday of next week when a new podcast with a different artist will go live. I know some of you don't come here every day so this is for those of you who may not have listened yet. And....apparently.....my podcast hit number 101 out of the top 200 creative arts podcasts on i tunes this week! Who knew???? Thanks so much to everyone who has listened, downloaded, commented and emailed. I am so so grateful.
A bit off this and that today. 'This' being the paper based idea we are working on in 'embroidery school' and 'that' being my large embroidered silk panel which you have been seeing a lot of lately.
The paper based piece has a little more work since you last saw it, specifically it has outlines....I think they make such a difference aesthetically whilst at the same time clarifying, indicating boundaries, shape, outer edges.
The embroidered panel has more embellishment, more areas of interest. I think it's safe to say I now know what is needed to finish this. Each motif and stitch area required is now decided it's just a case of me cracking on.
A simple row of turquoise beads along an edge of paper, a page enhancement. There's quite a bit of lace here too, some bought, some I made myself. It all somehow just lives together easily. The blue compliments the white and the lace, the white and the lace compliment the blue.
This is more work on one of the pieces commanding most of my attention at the moment, artist books. I am working on pieces for embroidery school too, creating tiny samples of embroidery stitches for the ''stitch ledgers'' we are making over there. Who knew there were so many embroidery stitches out there? It would seem the world doesn't revolve around bullion knots after all.
Also...prep is really hotting up for my London workshop and unfortunately I can't share that with you either yet...you will definitely get to see all that after the event though, I am taking pictures as I go along. I can't quite believe it's almost upon us. It's next week...time definitely flies.
You will be seeing more paper based pieces over the next couple of days as that seems to be my default media at the moment. That's no bad thing....
It's a pile.....it's several things placed together with thought, not just thrown down. There are two pages, one finished and one in progress from class along with scraps of paper, torn edges and lace.
Gathering is good for me, it inspires me, it allows me to develop ideas and it also gets me very excited about the possibilities. I'm looking at the details here, the delicate fringe of tiny white beads which is almost invisible against the red marbled paper. I'm actually drooling over the soft, padded silk velvet scrap most visible in the lower left hand corner of the last image and don't get me started on the fine metal strip running through the cream paper.
Now I need to rip more paper, add it to lace, attach strips of metallic cord.....create another surface and find a space on there for more soft, silk velvet.
I've had quite a few messages asking if I am OK because of the snow you have seen on the news. Thank you.....I am fine. We missed the worst of it, it fell just south of us so although we do have snow we have gotten off lightly compared to other areas. I ventured out in the car earlier and made it home again without any problems apart from my toes threatening to fall off because they were so cold.
A reminder....the return of 'embroidery school' for 2018. You can read about that here.
It's a repeat, a re run of a video from May 2016. I have been referring to this a lot lately, this collection, these ideas, this method of developing a design. Some of you will not have seen this before....
Wordless today. I am not here....shhhhh.....
This has now become this you see today. There is an embroidered lining along with a beaded seam. The lower and upper edges are hand finished with running stitch. I feel I can say the fiddling was worth it. This little pocket measures six and a half by seven inches if you include the lace edge. There are 112 bullion loops on two seams, 28 beaded bullion loops, 17 seed beads at the inner edge along with 14 applique ''flowers'' and 15 Suffolk puffs. Phew.....that doesn't include the beads, bullion's and puffs on the lining. (4 bullion knots, 5 beaded bullion knots and three Suffolk puffs in case you were wondering)
It's ''recipe'' like....ingredients and method for a tiny pocket.