Karen Ruane: presenting cloth

08/07/2014

The next step in the sparkly experiment is well under way. Lace cloth has been made and titivation's have been added. There are beads, there is purl, there is silver leather.....this one has mileage. It feels amazing to hold. The base is very delicate, almost weightless. Once the beads are added it gives it weight, a contrast, fragility and weightlessness against solid and heavy. I definitely see more of this in my future.......

I'm going out now, up North,.....it's my mothers birthday. There are gifts to deliver.

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02/12/2013

this weeks Alchemy

Just a small selection for you of the things we have been doing over in Alchmey this week. I stitched the top samples in order to get new ideas for my wrapping cloth. The bottom two images are of new work which has been mounted in order to move doodle doo forward.

Yesterday evening was about the new wrapping cloth,more work done on that, cross stitch and a little applique created with the sample piece I showed you yesterday. The wrapped cloth has also been added.

This morning I started something new, not completely new in terms of technique but a new piece of work all the same. A new piece for what I don't know...yet. It was born from something I rediscovered yesterday and which I am now going to share over in Alchemy. They will see the process and the results, you will get to see the results.......next week.