The latest finish sample from my recent explorations, a couple of images taken during the process too.
I know what I am doing next, how that piece will look but I actually don't know what the outcome of all this sampling will be.
I'm just going to keep going until the revelation hits....
This piece has been in progress for almost a week.
It's baby steps, the first dip of my toe into a plan to try something new.
OK, there's pin pricking and my usual embroidery stitches, they will most likely be ever present but what I'm hoping to achieve is progress with a different type of composition, a cohesive body of work created to generate new ideas.
Like I said, baby steps for now.
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Two pieces today.
The latest, finished piece for my lace cloth collection which I have been working on for quite some time....and a design sheet, very much in progress and which is taking shape with my subscription tiers on Ko-Fi.
You can sign up to one of my subscription learning tiers at any time and get access to all video posted since the start. You will also get free access to a past class, a ledgers class once you have completed three months subscription.
Back to the design sheet...there is a long way to go with this, a lot of white space to fill and I have plans.....
Embroidery on gingham continues including creating little compositions using the gingham swatches along with stitched papers and hand embroidery.
Also growing is my pile of machine stitched surfaces which will be enhanced with hand embroidery and which I know from experience will be very useful for the upcoming artist book class.
These pieces won't be exclusively used there though. I also like to have a little pile of these after they are embellished, when they are adorned and finished.
This one has a base of patched, stitched papers layered at one edge with lace.
The gingham piece is attached with running stitch and a frill has been added at the lower edge and the right hand side.
Gingham patches are coming in handy for extra adornment too.
I've also been replenishing my supplies.
The machine thread is most needed from these, I have a lot more paper to stitch.
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Stitched gingham and stitched papers, so many French knots, bullion knots and web stitches.
So much sewing machine trickery to create unique paper surfaces.
Saturday, today, is the day I try and put together some little compositions with these pieces.
Then there will be more hand stitch.
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.....
Do you remember my stitched papers?
I've been playing with them, trying to generate new ideas for pages, for artist books.
The piece today is one of three so far, the others are still works in progress.
At the moment I'm leaning towards this particular stitched paper with the silk velvet and silk tissue added being my favourite.
I need to test it more, test how it responds to folding and rolling too.
A glimpse for you of how it looks here when it's video making day for my membership.
I have to admit this is quite tidy in comparison to some days.
The painted piece in the foreground is old work from Uni which I was referring to on camera as is the next piece, also from my Uni days.
I find it amazing how this 'old' work can still inspire me and how it definitely still informs my practice.
Never throw anything away!
You may have noticed from this post that I have been creating and embellishing quite a lot of stitched papers.
First of all I create the stitched papers before embellishing them with hand stitch.
Yesterday I continued to build my stash of these surfaces as I have big plans for them which I am currently sampling.
More will be revealed soon.