A new panel for an old wrapping cloth.
I say old, maybe I should say unfinished.
This piece has been a very slow burner.
A new panel was pieced in class earlier this week with pleated cloth, a little vintage scrap and a piece of very old handkerchief. Surface embroidery is now in progress.
There will be stab stitch, bullion knots and almost certainly French knots.
The right hand edge of the large silk piece...189 bullion knots.
I do love a bullion knot as you can tell!
More pages including the silk piece which was rescued from the 'pile' I mentioned yesterday.
I guess the 'cloth book' is a running theme here.
I last spoke about those here.
Yesterday, whilst 'sorting through' a pile of embroidered work I came across unmounted samples, perfect pieces for the current cloth book.
New fabric and embroidery will be added to some of these, creating more embroidered pages.
Fifteen two inch quares marked out, each one has a scrap of paper and a scrap of fabric attached.
Next they will be cut out and stitch added before they form the next part of this collection.
Also here, little bits that might inspire this work going forward.
You saw this yesterday, top right hand corner. It was a plan.....more embellishment and an edge.
That embellishment is done now but the upper area, the white, needs more work.
There are little things I'm not happy with here but that's ok.
We learn from everything and mostly from the sampling we do that we don't like.
I am however very happy with the seams and egdes which are developing in this collection.
