I have quite a few things 'on the go' at the moment, all tied up with my subscription learning programme.
The work with white continues, this piece is almost finished and the hexagon piece is a follow on from something I am working on with all my membership levels.
I am enjoying the more relaxed pace of this new way of teaching.
It will be a while until my next post here as I am going away for a few days with my wider family.
There will be a wedding and there will also be cake.
As you can see, white is still dominating here.
I'm piecing papers, lace and snippets of other things to create these little compositions which are then embroidered by hand.
(they are laid here on backgrounds I created some time ago to help with the photos, white on its own is horrendous to photograph)
The piece on the left in the first image isn't finished yet, there are still a couple of edges which need adorning.
That will happen later as will the piecing of the next one.
The collection of embroidered pieces for my 'stash tier' is growing.
I only hope I am able to part with these when the time comes!
Yesterday I had two wonderful sessions on Zoom with members of my subscription learning programme.
If you would like to join us you can read about the different subscription levels here.
Remember in this post I was considering finishing touches for these embroidered pieces? Well not much from that collection made the final cut, only the off white pompoms.
In addition to those I hand wrapped some tiny buttons, finished a couple of edges and hey presto.
It's busy here at the moment, the best kind of busy.
My daughter is here from London with Stanley and Sonny is here a lot to play with his big cousin.
These boys light up my days.
The three white pieces here are from this post where they were unfinished.
They still aren't finished but all have been further embellished with hand embroidery.
Today I'm considering finishing touches, auditioning titivations.
These pieces will form part of the embellishment pockets each member of my stash tier will receive twice yearly.
There are a couple of places left in that tier if you are interested in joining 'sewing circle'.
The basic tier where I post monthly stitching videos has unlimited membership and for only 5 pounds a month members of that tier receive at least one hour of demonstration video monthly.
You can read more about all three of my 'sewing circle' membership tiers here.
For the past couple of days I have been piecing some white, lace and paper mostly.
These pieces will form part of my 'stockpile' for the work those in my 'stash' level will receive twice a year.
I'm a little hindered progress wise though as my sewing machine is at the sewing machine hospital and it's been one week and one day so far....not that I'm counting....aaargh
I have put my wrapping cloth to one side for now, (the edges will take me another day to finish I think), I have put it to one side so I can make progress with the white using the bits I have here whilst I wait for the sewing machine.
There was a little mishap with my ledger for Alchemy a couple of weeks ago.
I say mishap, that is down playing it. It was a disaster of epic proportions which I am not emotionally strong enough to go into ha ha.
Anyway, the rescue began last week and this is the result.
You can see pre disaster images here and here.
I actually prefer it now.
I am inspired all over again.
Embroidery, samples, hand stitching.....I'm relaxing a little with these whilst we have a break from Alchemy. I'm enjoying reconnecting with hand work, simple embroidery.
I love to work with paper as you know but that doesn't mean I have lost my love of cloth or simple, relaxing hand work.
It's a sample, purely a playful exercise, exactly the same relaxing and creative pastime as the pieces here.
Working with white in my Alchemy class has inpsired me to create more works on paper.
Pin pricking has also been a process I have shared within that group and again, I am inspired to create more pieces with that process.
The piece here today is part of a larger piece I am working on.
This one will have at least two sections before it's finished. I am currently planning the lower area.