There was a little bit of embroidery on paper happening yesterday.
This is another page for the book which you can also see in the image.
The new work is the piece in the centre of the image with the pink floral paper.
(and it has a little pocket too)
Following on from my last post, I'm planning the edges of these paper sheets which hold my gingham samples.
Keeping the gingham theme going I'm auditioning little gingham suffolk puffs.
I still need to tie these on but it works for me....
Work in this notebook is continuing.
I am stitching paper but thinking about cloth.
I'm making mental notes for my next wrapping cloth and this helps, this paper play.
A stitch is a stich no matter where it's placed.
I've been working more in this notebook, box pleats, a beaded edge, hand embroidery stitches.
I am trying to avoid more sampling for 'a samplers cloth' because if I don't stop my work will be finished before class even begins!!
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.
I'm a little later than normal today. My schedule is a little upside down at the moment because of family stuff but I made it here in the end.
This work is progress from 'creative portfolio'.
There is appliqued kid leather, stitching on paper, gimp, ribbon and hand made ball buttons. ( I am in love with those and can't stop making them!)
These compositions, these design ideas are very satisfying to create and extend.
There will be more of this.
The first thing I need to do today is apologise for the images. I must have taken one hundred photographs, battling against the gloom and grey skies.
White is hard enough to photograph.....give me a break weather.
I've been finishing the edges of this piece, mostly with hand embroidery but also with a few little pompoms and a pleated piece of vintage lace.
I have been working a little more on the piece from this post, choosing carefully which seams I want to embellish with beads.
There are more bullion knots too but I think this is still some way off being finished.
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.
In between working on my pieces for class I am still stitching papers, tearing strips, tearing randon shapes, overlaying them and adding lace or ribbon before embellishing with hand stitch.
I am getting quite a collection.
Each piece informs the next, taking one aspect of one and altering it slightly for the next one whilst also adding something new.
The last image today is a little mosaic of the collection to date....