Yesterdays embroidery was inspired by this doodle. This doodle sheet informed this pouch. It's a never ending circle, one thing leads to another which leads to something else.
The doodle group I set up on Flickr is growing, it's full of amazing doodles. Who knew you were all such enthusiastic doodlers? Take a look here, join, don't join, just look, appreciate....
This piece was inspired by some new doodling on paper. I am going to show you the doodling tomorrow, back to front I know. What can I say, I'm a back to front kind of girl. This one was stitched using my new coton a broder 16 which isn't quite as fine as the 25 I spoke of earlier this week.
It appears I spend most of my days in raptures.....cloth raptures. Here's another that has me excited, doing tummy flips. The potential for more is scary. Meanwhile I continue to search for the day with 34 hours in it.
Remember this? I did say I would be back to finish it and here it is along with another page doodled in a similar way. I am on a bit of a mission to get you all doodling. I'm hoping you are encouraged by my paltry offerings. It doesn't have to be amazing, Picasso like, worthy of a gallery. If you get pleasure from it then that's mission accomplished. You don't even have to show anyone else. I speak about this in the video today, I like to think I am encouraging, prompting....
To help you a little more I have set up an open Flickr group, Doodling Daily for anyone to put their doodles in. I wanted to call it a ''doodle a day'' but that was already taken, never mind, ''doodling daily'' works too. I'm not going to have any other role there from now on, I merely set it up. Get over there and join, have a ball.
***the new ''doodling daily'' group on Flickr is completely separate from my online class groups. I will have no involvement in terms of comments or feedback over there. I set the group up to spur your doodling on, to encourage. Images uploaded to that group do not have to be in private mode HOWEVER please DO NOT put images in that group which are also in the private online learning groups.***
I do apologise. I was going to show you embroidery today, embroidery which is being progressed in class. Thing is I got distracted by two tiny doodles which I found in a cupboard. What can I say.....I will show you the embroidery tomorrow I promise. I will not go in any cupboards today. I will not sort through any piles of anything thus avoiding any possible distractions.
A video, about the doodles, why, when and a page with a new doodle.
The page stack is getting taller but not yet nearly tall enough. I'm in no hurry actually, I'm taking my time, enjoying. The black and white bug bit me yesterday. There was printing, cutting, doodling, pattern and lettering. (and if there's any mention of feet.....you know who you are...I will not be responsible for my actions)
My attention is moving to pockets again this afternoon so pages may well take a back seat for a while anyway....... We begin our pocket/body bag/ledger adventure again on Monday. You can still join us....just go here and take a look. We will be making all kinds of things just like this, this and this....
Out of sight I am working at getting this finished. It needs a couple more petals, a doodled lining and something whoop de doo for the final titivation. Don't ask me about the whoop de doo bit yet...I'm still thinking about that one.
Pages, pages for little books of colour, little books of doodle, little artist books. I now have six. I need a lot more. They are being built up slowly. I think I will just continue to make little pages until you can't move in my house because of little pages. Then I will start to put little books together.
In other news.....the laundry pile is slightly smaller today and the unpacking is done. I'm early today because I have an important lunch date............oh and I have a raging sore throat......
I got distracted by some graph paper I saw online. What can I say, it's a curse. It's an excuse for another finger limbering up ten minutes though in the tiny 4 x 3 inch ledger. Print graph paper, stick it in a book, get some lettering stencils, a black fine liner, a needle and thread and a fabric label and the world is your oyster!!
Desk pad c. Marks and Spencer.
Remember this? I'm adding to it. I'm going to keep it going as an ever present warm up exercise, a finger limbering up task. Five minutes here and there will soon add up to a full page of doodles. Each five minutes of effort may not look like much on its own but after a few weeks? Who knows.
You can doodle while you are watching TV, while you're in bed, while you're waiting for the kettle to boil. Do it on a scrap of paper. Do it on a newspaper. Do it on anything, a tissue box, a pasta packet.
I can't recommend doodling highly enough and that's from someone who had a phobia of pens and pencils up until quite recently. (I'm still working on my phobia of paints) You can't conquer everything in one go!
Go forth and doodle.....
Doodle Pad c. Marks and Spencer.
Five minutes of doodling. Five minutes of the most basic doodling, the beginning of a page, the start of a full page of doodles. Five minutes in a crazy mad day of appointments and the need to always be somewhere else. A creative limbering up exercise.
Enjoy....
It's a fact, my fingers don't move as fast as I need or want them to. I have made progress on this but nothing spectacular, nothing that will stop you in your tracks. Because of that I decided to give you a doodling pep talk. I apologise for getting on my soap box.....it's only because I care about you, honest.