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.
It's becoming a theme isn't it? Gingham mixed with embroidery and Liberty fabric.
There is my work from class of course but I can't show you any of that.
Meanwhile, in addition to the class work which I can't show you I am creating another of these little books.
It's all about pages here at the moment, cloth books, cloth pages.
My hearts are here, they will form one little embroidered book with flowers yet to be mounted and then there is this from sewing circle which I shared with you last week.
Today you can see the other side of that piece, that page.
Yesterday I realised my Questions and Answers page is massively out of date. I would like to make that more current so if you have any burning questions for me please ask away in the comments section.
And finally, a little reminder about Interactive Sewing Circle.
Just go here to read more.
I'm playing the long game with this one, there are too many pages for it to be rushed.
That's entirely down to me, I did make the book after all.
Another double page spread is finished but there's a lot of thought going into the remaining page edges which I spoke about here.
The edges of pages are just as important to me as the work which fills the pages.
Yesterday was spent with artist books, refreshing my memory, making plans for new books, adding to already worked pages.
Later today I am going to think about the idea I had in this post for adding lace pieces to my 'doodle doo' sketchbook.
I am thinking my lace pieces are actually too big for doodle doo though. I will have a look and if they are too big I will make new plans for them but now that I have reminded myself how much I love my 'doodle doo' sketchbook I might be compelled to work in it a little more with new pieces.
Alchemy 2020, my new class is due to begin on Monday....yikes....you can read more about that here but if you are registered, to confirm, our first post will actually be tommorow.
I hope your needles are sharpened!
I think I mentioned when I made the first patchwork page keep for one of my little books that there would be more.
Here is the second one!
There is a video here of me putting this little book together if you missed it.
Last time I posted about this little book I mentioned I would need a wrap or something similar to hold the pages open as it refuses to stay open on its own.
My intention was to create a wrap which would be attached to the front cover and fold over any page.
Instead I have embroidered a little bookmark/page keeper using one inch hexagons and beads.
Now all I have to do is restrain myself from making one of these for every artist book in the house!
(if you are registered for my new class you should have received an email from me this morning and an invitation to join our private Flickr group. If you haven't received either of those can you please let me know)
This little thing is filling up! It's my three inch by three inch hand made notebook and it's changed somewhat since you last saw it.
Stitching in this is a lovely diversion, I can lose myself, let my mind wander. Fiddly yes but oh so therapeutic too.
When you saw the picture of my ironing board yesterday what you were seeing was my attempt to gather 'bits' to further embellish pages in my little stitched notebooks. The results are below. A little stitched page titivated with Suffolk puffs and pom poms.
Just a reminder about my new embroidery class which begins at the end of this month, 'an embroiderers cloth'. You can read more here if you have missed it.