Sixteen embroidered snippets prepped yesterday.
The smallest of these is one and a half by a quarter inch.
The square pieces are one and a half inches by one and a half inches, the largest pieces one inch by two inches.
I speak about the creation of these little pieces on video in this post.
This morning I prepped some embroidery for tonight,
two hoops full of little things to stitch to fill more pages for more artist books.
Now I'm off to a party, a party to celebrate this little guy turning two last week.
Yes, there will be cake.
Hand embroidery stitches. Therapeutic, relaxing, the ritual, the process.
Web stitches and three ways with a bullion knot.
My little books are still very much in progress.
Today I will stitch more papers, build up my stash then I can make more of these.
Meanwhile, I had an idea about the page reverses.......
It's all explained in the video.
Gingham pockets lined with Liberty fabric.
These will be used to hold my little artist books.
They are very simply put together and measure around five by ten inches.
I wanted to come on here today for another reason.
Yesterday I created a new Flickr group.
This group is open to anyone with a love of embroidery. There are no prerequisites to joining, it isn't linked to any of my online learning programmes, it's a space for like minded people to get together, share images, take part in discussions and generally 'hang out'.
You can have a look at 'a gathering of embroiderers' here and click 'join' if you want to tag along.
I'm signing off for the weekend as this little chap is coming for a sleepover.
Working my way through the pages for my little artist books, fast running out of embellishments!
Another video today, a shorter one, stitching very small pieces to enhance these pages.
(I apologise for not covering my thumb!)