One of the ways I use patchwork....

 

Patchwork, hexagons, stash. All relevant here.

In this post I was stitching hexagons, building a stash.

Those pieces will be used in artist books or as surface embellishments on embroidered pieces. 

Today it's another use for patchwork, specifically hexagons.

Page keepers for artist books,  closing sleeves for artist books.

The first image below shows an unfinished page keep alongside 2 completed pieces.

In the other images today you can see those in use.

For me, these pieces 'complete' the process of creating an artist book.

 

stash

 

Yesterday I spoke about stitching hexagons for my stash.

Today I thought I'd share more of the stash with you. 

This is less than a quarter of it.

Buttons and fabric beads all made by hand.

How big is your stash? 

New fabric

 

New fabric, or an opportunity to stitch more hexagons and grandmothers flower garden patchwork!

I speak a lot about 'stash building'.

These pieces will be kept safely with my other patchwork pieces my 'stash' and used in artist books or as surface embellishments on embroidered works. 

 

Embroidery on paper.

 

If you are new here you may not know about my love of stitching on paper. 

Many papers accept hand embroidery but the most receptive is the paper you see here that I work on a little using my sewing machine to alter the surface. 

The last image shows a little of that 'in progress'.

If you are not new here you will have seen this before.

This post is another exercise in retrieving lost reference to years of work.

It's also made me hanker to get my sewing machine and papers out.

That will go on the very long list of things I'm desperate to do. 

The sofa box

 

This little box sits on my sofa.

I keep all the little bits I might need for sewing of an evening.

The contents change depending on what I'm working on.

Well I say that, I'm not the best at swapping things out lol.

It often overflows with things for several projects.

It's quite tidy here but I definitely need to sort it out. 

 

If you have taken one of my online classes which has been lost following the Typepad shutdown I want to reassure you that I am working in the background to get all video links to you.

It's a huge task so please bear with me.

Meanwhile, if anyone desperately needs access to a class to allow you to continue with anything 'in progress' pleae let me know and I will try and help.