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.
Preparation for patchwork, Liberty triangles joined with hand stitch ready to be used on another design sheet, patchworked squares.
and loose embroidered pages joined back to back, one stage in the creation of cloth books.
My presence here has been hit and miss this week, I do apologise. Things here are upside down and wrong way round at the moment and we won't talk about the five hours it took me to make a one and a half hour journey yesterday.
But.....there's nothing wrong or bad happening here so I shouldn't moan and I definitely shouldn't moan because this time on Monday I will be here.
Meanwhile events are conspiring against progress with my recent work.
As you can see today though I have managed to add to the sheet from here.
How much progress can I make before I go away? I have no idea.....not much is my best guess but I'm going to try......
Square patchwork in a circle....very much in progress. There is paper collage in this too and I have no idea yet what will be used in the empty areas.
This sheet and the others I have created are all inspired by my initial explorations on A3 paper that you have seen many times but as a reminder you can go here, here, and here.
This is all part of my plan to gather as much information on pattern and composition as I can before moving on to placing my ideas into an actual 'product'.
A product can be anything, it can be useable, a bag, a throw, a garment. It can be decorative, wall art, coffee table book etc etc.
As yet I haven't decided on my 'product'.
I may not have one. I may just have ideas centred on a few things that will never get past the design stage.
It's too early for me to say although technically that decision should have been made before I started any of this.
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.
When you last saw this piece here three patchwork motifs had been added to the surface.
There are now four.
I'm still not sure where this is going and I don't mind.
I will allow it to grow and just enjoy the process.
It's back to gingham today after 'white' last time.
Another flower garden has been added to the main piece since the last time you saw it and the tiny samples of web stitch are now stitched to the gingham mounts as opposed to just being pinned.
I am going to continue working on the flower graden piece, adding more whilst not really having a firm idea of where I'm going.
For now that doesn't matter, I'm just enjoying the process and that's enough.
I will be away for a few days from today.
I'm off to London to see a certain little boy and visit Liberty.
View this post on Instagram
And so it continues, gingham, embroidery, patchwork, Grandmother's flower garden.
I have stitched two of these to a base of white and added web stitches at the outer edges.
There is more of that to do, the web stitches.
There is another finished piece ready to be cut out and patched which will also find it's way on to the white background.
Where am I going with this?
I'm not sure yet.
A little diversion from lace cloth, embroidered gingham hexagons and oversized hand wrapped buttons.
The hexagons were an itch I had to scratch, the buttons have just been demonstrated for my subscription learning groups.
It's back to lace cloth now. I have a pile of that to work through. It's the best kind of pile....
Last time I was here I mentioned how I wanted to keep working on cloth in some small way despite having a few paper projects in progress too.
These two little samples filled that gap, satisfied that urge yesterday. They are still very much 'in progress' and when finished will be kept in my 'stash' file and most likely find their way, eventually, into a little artist book.