Karen Ruane

progress with my 'to do' pile.

Remember my 'to do' pile?

Progress.......

edges of white

There are several finished pieces of white on white embroidery here, mostly created with a mix of paper and lace.

(I have laid them on an embroidered cloth for photography purposes)

The white pieces are for my 'stash' tier over on Ko-Fi, my new online teaching platform.

There are three levels of learning offered with the most basic at 5 GBP per month giving monthly access to an hours worth of hand embroidery videos.

I have also recently added a free 'past' class to all subscribers and you can read about that here.

Things are a little hectic at home so my presence here may be a little hit and miss for the next few days.

Hopefully I will be back sooner than I think!!

 

three finished and two recently pieced

There are three finished, purely paper pieces here along with two larger pieces which were put together this morning.

The larger pieces are a mix of paper and cloth and as yet are just pinned.

I get a lot of pleasure creating bigger pieces from scraps.

My advice? Never throw anything away.

this and that

I have quite a few things 'on the go' at the moment, all tied up with my subscription learning programme.

The work with white continues, this piece is almost finished and the hexagon piece is a follow on from something I am working on with all my membership levels.

I am enjoying the more relaxed pace of this new way of teaching.

It will be a while until my next post here as I am going away for a few days with my wider family.

There will be a wedding and there will also be cake.

lace cloth and embroidered paper

The paper on the left of this piece was stitched on the sewing machine before French knots were added to the gridded area. There is also lace cloth here along with some decorative, soft paper.

I'm actually making more lace cloth today too as my sewing machine has only just come back from the sewing machine hospital and I fell behind, my stash ran low.

This new piece is laid across open artist book pages for photography purposes. Don't imagine for one minute that sunshine is your friend when photographing white!

It definitely helps if the camera has something 'solid' to focus on.

paperwork

Someone asked me yesterday about my 'paperwork', they hadn't seen me working on any for some time.

If I work on a book, any book be it a notebook or artist book, stitching into the pages, to me that counts as paperwork.

But this person was asking about my more 'stand alone' pieces of embroidered paper which spurred me on to have a look back at those.

The images today are just a minute selection of this work, some of them discovered on my old blog.

Did you know I had an old blog? If you're interested you can find it here.

Meanwhile, looking at these has got me thinking....KO-Fi girls....we may well be doing some of this soon.

 

progressing white, paper and lace

The three white pieces here are from this post where they were unfinished.

They still aren't finished but all have been further embellished with hand embroidery.

Today I'm considering finishing touches, auditioning titivations.

These pieces will form part of the embellishment pockets each member of my stash tier will receive twice yearly.

There are a couple of places left in that tier if you are interested in joining 'sewing circle'.

The basic tier where I post monthly stitching videos has unlimited membership and for only 5 pounds a month members of that tier receive at least one hour of demonstration video monthly.

You can read more about all three of my 'sewing circle' membership tiers here.

paper and stitch

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)

edges, embroidered papers

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....

 

developing design

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.