Karen Ruane

a quick notebook doodle

I had a hankering last night to stitch in this little notebook.

A quick 'doodle' so to speak.

 I enjoy adding to it from time to time but it's getting quite full now.....

paper, ribbon apaper, ribbon and stitch

Progress......

Since returning from my break I've been moving my Alchemy pieces on.

I've started a new sheet which you can see here, taking elements from a past piece and altering them slightly.

There's still quite a way to go with this but I'm enjoying creating these works on paper.

creative space

After my recent break I have been playing catch up with all things Alchemy.

This morning I was making videos and putting together our class for next week. This will continue later this week.

I've also been playing catch up with and giving nanna kisses to these two little beauties.

During my time away I went to Portugal but prior to that I taught a three day residential course on 'lace cloth'.

It was a fabulous three days with some wonderful work produced.

The images are of my space, my things because unfortunately I forgot to ask permission from the group to show their work.

 

Ribbon, buttons and embroidered snippets.

More ribbon titivations, this time ball buttons and little snippets.

The small pieces measure around an inch.

I will use these to embellish design sheets and embroidered cloth pieces.

patchwork on my mind

You have seen this work many times, it's my current work for my Alchemy online class but today I have tried to isolate the relevant areas, the patchwork areas.

Some of the patchwork you can see here is paper, some is ribbon.

It's the ribbon I'm focusing on now, the finer strips of loose ribbon on the right to be exact.

I'm hoping to create a little randon patchwork with those later today.

ten embroidered samples on hand stitched pages, a gingham cloth book

This little book is finally finished. I honestly can't remember how long it has been in progress, it was a pick up and put down project for my quieter moments.

But, it's finished. Ten embroidered samples mounted on hand stitched pages with a hand embroidered ribbon page keep and small embroidered patches embellishing the covers.

It's available in my shop here.

 

stitched and pleated paper

The latest addition to my Alchemy design project, pleated and stitched paper.

The large sheet here needs more work and I may try and squeeze something else onto the notebook pages too.

I'm signing out for a couple of weeks.

I'll see you on the other side x

embroidered flower patches for a cloth book cover

Yes, the embroidered gingham stitch book is still in progress.

I'm wondering if it's the most delayed little book in the history of little books!

Now that the front and inside cover are embellished with little patches of embroidered flowers I think I can put all this together at last.

My days are filled with this at the moment but the evenings are all gingham.

Watch this space.

continuing....

I mentioned here that I'd be making lace cloth for the foreseeable.

Here it is, more lace cloth.

As I said before, I'm going to keep going until I either run out of thread or run out of time!

frothy and white

This is what's taking up most of my time today and will continue to do so for most of the next few days, lace cloth.

I'm teaching a residential workshop next weekend.....a lace cloth workshop.

How many pieces will I need?

I haven't a clue so I'm just going to keep going until I run out of time or thread, whichever comes first.