Yesterday was spent making more titivations for one of my Liberty cloth panels.
There are now prairie points at an edge and rouleau loops were made to use as ties.
This one will be a pillow, I will show you at the weekend!
Registration will close for my next class at midnight GMT tomorrow.
There is a lot of prep to do for this one and although it doesn't begin until July 5th I need a good idea of the numbers before I start work on it.
You can read more about it here.
You saw it here, unfinished.....it's finished now! I backed it and added oversized prairie points along with a few more puffs. Including this one, that's two quite big pieces finished in the past week or so. I am so pleased I completed these two cloths, they languished for far too long. Watch the video and see what you think.
On my ''to do'' list for the rest of the day....make more lace cloth, finish this pocket, doodle on some silk, start putting goody bag things into piles and maybe put a couple more pages together in my little books.
Patched pocket girls....stand by your computers.....there's a video coming!
You last saw this here....it has moved on a lot since then in fact it will be finished in class later this week. There are two pieces here, the front and back of what will become another pocket. Rouleau loops have been added to an edge, a fastening, a fastening that is most likely only ever going to be decorative. This pocket won't ever fasten completely.
Today one of these pieces is strategically folded in order to keep something back until the girls in class have seen it. Once that is done it will be full steam ahead to decoratively joining seams and edging the top opening. You should get to see the whole thing, finished, titivated, complete by the end of the week.
I'm in that place again. That place where you know you have been working, stitching, creating yet you have very little to show for it. There are a lot of things in progress around here, some I can't show yet, some you are most likely sick of seeing, some not quite ready to be placed in front of this audience.
This piece is passable I think. It isn't damp stretched, naughty Karen....it's the beginnings of a pouch. Don't hold your breath waiting for the ending though, it might be some time. Other ''in progress'' pieces have priority.
Yesterday, amongst other things, I made lace cloth and rouleau loops. The rouleau loops are for my Liberty pocket pillow, the lace cloth for well, anything really, just to have, to cut bits from every now and then when I need to. It's good to have a small amount of lace cloth, I use it in ledgers, on the surface of other embroidery. It is particularly appealing behind cutwork windows and makes rather nice bumpy bits too.
Today is the day my tent is supposed to arrive. I'm excited. I need to practice putting it up and taking it down. The putting up bit should be easy...it's a pop up tent and should allegedly spring up as soon as it's out of the bag. I have a feeling that getting it back in the bag won't be quite so simple. I will let you know.
There are little bits of everything going on here at the moment. I am making cords for the bridal bag, piecing strips for the body bag....it's all about bags!! There is sampling happening for simply stitch and plans for a final push to actually finish the bag for Helen.....are you keeping up with all this talk of bags? To clarify.....I am making a bridal bag for Helen. I am making a body bag for myself.......I hope that helps.
I'm late today....my husband took me out for lunch. It was very lovely and now I feel like I have eaten too much. When I was out I bought some
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Yesterdays loops have been used to join two sections of my latest wrapping cloth...(remember, you can make one with me) I don't normally join sections this early in the process but the bee was in my bonnet and I couldn't ignore it. Now I know that I want to do more of this so I will make more embroidered loops....see, it's sampling on the move. This is proof that if you want to try something you should just go for it. You never know for sure how something will turn out unless you actually do it.
This morning I have been watching the sleet hoping it doesn't turn to snow and so far so good. I am cocooned, warm and toasty surrounded by, I was going to say gorgeous, creative things but really it's more of an untidy mess than anything. You get my drift though....I have everything and then some...out of boxes, out of cupboards all in the name of creativity. That's good enough reason for me.
I made rouleau loops the other day. Actually they are more akin to simple fabric strips as they weren't cut on the bias. (note to self...that makes them hideously difficult to turn right way out) Still, loops, strips, whatever, I made them. I then embroidered on one...brain ticking here. I hope to show you tomorrow how I will use them. I have a plan. Then came more little bits of stitch, just samples, a little play time. The one in the hoop will also fit into a plan I have, watch this space.