I don't know if you know this but I have another blog, an old blog
Occasionally I pop over there to refresh my memory and when I did that earlier today I noticed it had 299 visits yesterday!
Why? Who? I haven't posted there since 2018!
If it was you drop me a comment and let me know if you like it, what made you visit pretty please.
A quick scroll through earlier led to me choosing todays images as some of my favourites from there.
If you would like to have a look for yourselves just go here.
Progress from yesterdays post.....
My embroidery hoop is now filled with flowers.
The open spaces, the unworked spaces....they are cutting out allowances.
I can't wait to start stitching these onto pages in my little books.
You may have noticed my absence recently. Well I haven't been idle.
I finished the piece I showed you yesterday and I made myself a new pouch.
When I make these pouches I just embroider a square of cloth before adding a backing, (which becomes the lining). I then fold the piece, hand finish the edges and hey presto.
Usually the cente opening is left open but with this one I have added ribbon ties and vintage glass buttons.
Below are images taken before this was folded into shape.
In my last post I was speaking about extending a finished piece.
Today I'm showing you a piece which isn't yet finished, it's been unfinished for a long time.
It's time I think to back this one.
Created during one of my online classes, this one is called 'a cloth for nanna'.
Gingham holds nanna memories for me. I remember wearing little gingham skirts and things which she had made.
Yes, this one definitely deserves to be finished.
Yesterday I was doing some 'sorting out' and came across the label you can see here.
That is a quote from research I carried out during my studies years ago and I think it's quite fitting for this piece so it will be attached as I finish my 'cloth for nanna'.
''the use of traditional, often time consuming process alludes to the devotion of a mother''.
Embellishment is continuing on this sheet.
There are cloth snippets, pin pricking and French knots along with more collage.
I'm now planning on creating a strip, maybe ruffled, of embroidered fabric to run horizontally about a third of the way up from the lower edge.
Embroidery is continuing on the lace cloth from here.
Hand made buttons, hand ruched cloth, pleated edgings.
Lace cloth has been cut up and added at the edges here too, giving extra seams which are ripe for titivating!
My first artist book class for three years begins one week from today.
Fingers crossed everything appears to be resolved with Typepad.
(I hope I don't live to regret saying that)
So here we go with todays post, covering my eyes with my hands and only peeping through my fingers as I'm scared it will all go wrong and the host will go down again.
The promised paperwork.
This work is evolving in my subscription learning class.
One of three pieces, this section requires the most time and is by far the fiddliest on account of the hooks and eyes.
If you compare it to the last time you saw it here, I hope you get an appreciation of the progress I have made.
Hooks and eyes have featured in my work on and off for a long time, this is an example from 2011.
(the post is on my old blog and is quite a good read if I do say so myself!)
There is another example here from 2018.
I'm hoping to finish this section today and move on to the other two. That will allow me to finish this piece in my next videos for class.
We are covering 'paperwork' in my online learning forum at the moment and it's giving me the urge to start another design ledger.
Once I have finished my current pieces, (for which there is a deadline) I will be moving on to a new ledger/artist book/ design collection.
The work in today's images is from a past ledger class and as a reminder, if you sign up to any tier of my subscription learning you get free access to that class, 87 videos and countless images.
Membership levels start at only £5 a month and you can take a look at those here.
Meanwhile....I must crack on with what I'm doing so I can begin work on my new paper pieces.....more of that next time.
There is a new idea brewing, another theme and almost definitely another distraction, patches.
Not cloth patches, patches inspired by, mirroring and mimicking past work.
The large patch here is number 6. The small piece with trailing ribbon is number 2.
I will be (not exclusively, there will be other things happening too) developing this work and creating a new type of patchwork in my subscription only forum which I am hoping will go live tomorrow!
(more details tomorrow)
I have started another piece....my embroidered paper pile is growing, not rapidly but growing all the same.
Tiny pompoms are featuring at the moment on here but there is a piped edge in progress, just basted for now, the embellishmnet will happen later today fingers crossed.
Are you ready for a baby update?
Stanley and Sonny met for the first time on Monday.
Be still my heart.