I'm continuing the hand embroidery from here.
The video from my last post is posted again today just incase you missed my explanation of what I am actually doing.
There's also a secret project going on that I can't fully share yet but glimpses of it are shown today.
Later this week I am going here.....I won't be gone very long but I will be playing catch up when I get back.
I regularly spend an evening sewing hexagons, one inch hexagons and then creating Grandmother's flower garden patchwork pieces.
It's good to have a stash of these.
They are useful for embellishing sketchbooks, cloth books or any piece of embroidery.
Below are just a few examples of how I have used these in the past.
Thank you so much for loving my little books from yesterday. They have all gone! Should I make some more?
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Do you remember in this post I was looking through some of my embroidery?
Well I found this little doodled and stitched sheet in amongst my cloth pieces. I have no idea how it got there, it shouldn't have been there and that will explain why it's a little dog eared.
Anyway, I was working with hexagons yesterday for my latest wrapping cloth and as this little sheet is a kind of hexagon doodle I was compelled to lay my hexagon pieces on it.
Has it informed? It has actually although I definitely don't need another distraction at the moment.
I will bank this one.
You last saw this a couple of weeks ago, my latest wrapping cloth in progress.
Since then I have embellished another panel using patchwork, hand embroidery, pleating and Suffolk puffs.
This latest panel is now pinned in place ready to be basted before I embellish the seam.
There is still quite a way to go with this cloth, there are more panels to put together and embroider.
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.
Wow....it's 2024. How did that happen?
There has been plenty of stitching happening whilst I have been away, a lot of it involving these little patchwork pieces.
There's a new pouch almost finished and a new wrapping cloth very much in progress.
This piece is also finished.
Hopefully I will stick around long enough to share those with you.
I took a little time out from class work this week to finish this piece.
It has been edged with buttonhole stitch, two rows, which finishes it well I think.
I'm not sure what will happen with this going forward although I am tempted to create another, similar piece and join the two.
The base of this is lace cloth and the patchwork pieces sit on scraps of silk velvet as do the various hand stitches, the bullion knots and French knots.
You will notice in this post how all the lace cloth I made is almost covered now with patchwork and hand embroidery.
Yesterday I spent a little time working on the areas where there was no stitching, extending the area covered with lace cloth to enable me to add more patchwork and hand embroidery.
Next I need to add more silk velvet patches, the areas where the patchwork lives.
This piece has had more work since you last saw it here.
There is another grandmother's flower garden patchwork on the surface along with a couple more small stitched pieces.
I intend to keep going with this, altering this surface by adding more 'lace like' stitching with my sewing machine along with more silk velvet patches which will then be embellished with gingham patchwork.
When this piece is completely embellished I will begin a new piece and add it to this one, making the most of the seam.......decorating that with hand embroidery.
If you were wondering what I was going to do with these then here is your answer.
I see the smaller pieces as medallion like and attaching those to the surface as separate pieces gives them a different dimension to what would be achieved stitching them to the actual base cloth. I'm very happy with this so far.
This work from last time....I have been doodling but I'm not brave enough to show you yet....