I'm still happily playing with my glue stick. (It's only being used on paper.)
The collage on these pieces informs the embroidery and everything else which happens including the woven paper scraps and the fabric covered rings.
As yet nothing is secured on this A3 sheet. I am working on other pieces and will decide on the composition when those are finished.
You will be seeing a lot of these A3 design sheets as I progress this work.
They are the focal point of everything which follows, all my basic information is on those, pattern, colour, texture.
Not shown here are two pieces I am working on as an extension of this work, they aren't quite 'show me' ready yet but along with those pieces I am considering my overlay options hence the lace cloth here.
I haven't spent as much time on this work as I had hoped over the past week due to nanna duties and nanna duties are always the best use of time so no worries there.
Small details have been added to both these sheets. There is a new small piece taking shape (top right, last image) and I have been sticking torn strips together for a little weaving I have planned.
It's still baby steps and time deficient due to babies so it's very cohesive ha ha.
My play with paper, collage and stitch is continuing.
This is number two. It's far from finished.
I'm not sure number one is finished yet either.
(for reference these are A3 size)
I am enjoying working with this size.
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.
(some images aren't loading for me...are they loading for you?)
Just playing. A little bit of sticking and a little bit of stitch....
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.
A little simple collage and some doodling.
This work evolved from this post.....
I have plans to take this forward in stitch but I'm not quite there yet.
There is more doodling to do, some with added embroidery, stitched fabrics and more collage.
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....