Another notebook exercise.

 

Another stitched notebook....one from 'the other place'.

This one was created before my current piece which you are seeing regularly on here. 

As you will notice, I didn't develop this one as fully as the book I am working on now.

I learnt from this one, (we learn from everything don't we) and I am learning from my current one.

It has occured to me to add to this one taking inspiration from current work but sadly I have a very limited supply of this paper. 

Regardless, if I don't do anything else with this one there is still a wealth of information here to inspire in the future. 

Hand stitched overlays.

 

I have started to add the hand stitched overlays to the pages of my little design notebook.

Little mushroom tags have also been added to some pages.

There is so much more I want to do in this little book.

(notebook measures 6x81/2 inches) 

I have calculated how many more overlays I need to make....thirteen.

I best get going then. 

 

Patchwork

 

Do you remember these patchwork flowers?

I said I would definitely create more and that I had made extra.

Here is some of the 'extra' and there are more. 

The centres are under consideration.

To add something......or not. 

A little page play

 

It's been a notebook morning.

Cutting papers, stitching pages, painting pages.

 

The past few days.

 

Tags, embellishments, embroidered and stitched papers, tiny artist book pages....

All ongoing explorations of a design theme.

I'm having so much fun with this.

Now I'm wondering where I can go next. 

A table of embroidery

 

I mentioned recently that I lost all public reference to my collection of embroidered sample books because of you know who.....(Typepad)

Insert some unladylike language here.

I also mentioned that I'd try to somehow post a little of that collection here and here we are.

A very brief video show and tell.

If there is anything you would like to see in more detail please just let me know.

 

More bits and pieces.

 

Do you remember this post about using homeless samples?

There's more of that here. 

Three samples now joined with a patchwork flower added top right.

I think I now have enough of these pieces to finish them with headers and create a new cloth sample book.

That's this afternoon sorted then. 

Fabric paint and embroidery.

 

New embroidered work.

Fabric paint and embroidery inspired by this collection.

There are lots of French knots and tiny snippets of cloth embellishing the painted areas along with a little running stitch.

There's along way to go with this one. It's developing over in class.

Small applique circles on each piece is the next step.

I will play with the placement of those later. 

Feeding creativity

 

It's time to take a closer, more considered look at my current design project.

I have created and gathered a large amount of work and sometimes I'm blinded by it all.

Today I've collected a few pieces together for more focus, (less clutter) in order to move forward.

So now I'm digesting the information here, in this image. There's more clarity which will help the decision making and hopefully generate ideas going forward.

If you'd like to catch up on this current collection there are several links below. 

here, 

here, 

here, 

here, 

here, 

here, 

here, 

here, 

 and here, 

Progress

 

There's been progress with this piece, you last saw it here.

It's turning into a patchwork piece....unintentionally.

I like it though. I especially like the patchwork flower. 

I like the flower so much that I've made extra.

They will not be used here though......or maybe one would fit in that empty corner of gingham.....hmmmmm.