Stitching on my 'little book of embroidery' is progressing.
Meanwhile I'm thinking about how to present these pages, how the book form will take shape, how the pages will be bound.
I have one clear idea at the moment which will need to be sampled in stitch but I'm tryimg it out on a mini design sheet first.
Registration for my new online class closes on Wednesday.
You can read more about that here.
Hi everyone, I hope you're well.
For various reasons I'm struggling at the moment to keep up with all things embroidery and specifically this space, my blog.
I can only apologise for my infrequent posts but please believe me when I say I'm trying very hard to get back on track.
The work today is progress with my seven inch square pages for my 'book of embroidery'.
I have been posting about this work for a while now and although you see pieces you have seen before you do also see new work on new squares, some in progress, some complete.
If you are new here you can read more about this project by scrolling down through recent posts.
Today I have also included a one minute video from my last post which is a brief show and tell of this work.
A reminder about my new online class.
Registration, expressions of interest will remain open until Wednesday of next week. You can read more about the course here.
Thank you to those of you who have registered an interest already, it's so appreciated.
Progress......a little gimp and three applique flowers added to one piece of work.
Little half circle applique pockets added to another piece which is not yet finished.
The video today is only one minute long.
A quick show and tell of my progress with this work.
More about embroidered samples today.
I'm surrounded by them.
How to preserve them, present them, store them?
They are good decisions to make, enjoyable decisions, the chance for more embroidery perhaps with embellished cloth backdrops.
It's a sewing machine kind of day.
Storm Lilian is wreaking havoc outside so I am hunkered down stitching papers in order to develop this piece.
The video below was made a few weeks ago but explains where I am going with this.
Another piece, collected scraps of paper and embroidery, beads, hand stitches, a little lace, all placed on a background of collaged Japanese tissue papers.
I considered calling this curating. What do you think?
I googled the definition.
Curating......select, organise and present.
I think I could justify that.
There's a video here from a couple of days ago which shows more of these pieces.
Hi everyone, how've you been?
I'm hoping to be more present here from this point. I've been here there and everywhere. I'm sure you know where that is, I'm confident you've been there too.
Stitching has been happening at every opportunity.
Not much progress has been made but at least I stayed comnnected to my work and the ideas are churning.
There's a short video today explaining in more detail.
Thinking about artist books......
Looking at artist books....
Adding to pages in artist books.....
I'm continuing the hand embroidery from here.
The video from my last post is posted again today just incase you missed my explanation of what I am actually doing.
There's also a secret project going on that I can't fully share yet but glimpses of it are shown today.
Later this week I am going here.....I won't be gone very long but I will be playing catch up when I get back.
A follow on from my post yesterday, my plan for scattered flowers and a little book of traditional hand stitch.
A short video.
Apologies in advance for my sporadic posting here.
I'm going to be absent on and off for the next couple of weeks.....again.