Cutting out the lining fabric for my jewellery pouches.
A template cut from wallpaper, pattern weights, tailors chalk and some beautifully soft cotton voile.
These linings will be embroidered at the top edge.
French knots and Swarovski crystals on one and French knots with pink sequins on the other.
I best crack on.
Thanks so much for your messages after my last post.
Keep taking the tablets they say.
Good advice.
Hi everyone, how you doing?
No embroidery today.
Shelf sorting.
Making room for my Paris haul.
In truth I have been unwell for a couple of weeks.
My embroidery is suffering due to brain fog from medication.
Hexagons are the answer to brain fog...slow and doable with an empty head.
I'm mostly pottering and can just about manage to sort these shelves.
What a task.
Don't we accumulate?
Two walks around the Zoo with two of my favourite little boys cleared the head slightly.
I'm going to the Zoo so often they will invite me to their staff Christmas party.
Take care and I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly.
I have started on the embellishment of the patchwork pouch I showed you last time I was here.
There will be seven patchwork pieces on this in total, all created from Liberty Tana Lawn, the Little Mirabelle pattern.
The sequins are here as I am hoping to add those to bullion knots as part of the surface embroidery on this piece.
Two jewellery pouches in progress.
The white piece is almost finished. The patchwork piece is just beginning.
When these are drawn up with a drawstring they will be small, delicate and dainty with the base fabric measuring just seventeen inches.
Both will have an embroidered lining and a hand made cord to fasten them.
I am using exclusively Liberty 'Little Mirabelle' Tana lawn for the patchwork.
It's so very pretty.
The ongoing patchwork marathon.
If this is new to you there's a post here which will update you on what I am doing with this patchwork piece.
It's definitely growing but I am resisting measuring it.
I'm just going to keep going and keep going.
I am using almost exclusively Liberty Tana lawn and there are a couple of close ups so you can see the pattern mix.
Also....it looks like a map of the world ha ha.
That isn't intentional!
Sorry I've been missing.
Illness is the culprit.
I'm hoping to be back to my super fit and healthy self soon!
Oh and feel free to count the hexagons and let me know!!
Hi everyone, how are you?
It's been a while.
Things have been hectic here since I returned from my trip to Paris.
In addition to tackling piles of laundry I have a dose of man flu kindly gifted by my
two year old grandson otherwise known as the super spreader.
He is of course forgiven because he is so cute!
Today though, a glimpse for you of some of my Paris haul.
Now to find homes for it all.
It's definitely growing.
You can compare it to here.
This is a lifetime commitment ha ha.
I want it single bed size and that scares me.
I'm not even looking to check how big that actually is.....don't tell me.
This is made completely with Liberty Tana Lawn.
That's a bonus.
It means I need to keep buying Liberty Tana Lawn!
I also gave in to temptation and removed some of the templates.
Very satisfying.
I'll be missing for a while from today.
I'm going here.
Behave yourselves whilst I'm gone.
x
Lace cloth created from silk velvet and cotton scrim.
This is the base of a new pouch, a new drawstring pouch.
The lace cloth I created in this post has now been completely embellished by hand.
I have used buttonhole stitch, chain stitch and French knots, adding Swarovski crystals in selected areas.
The remainder of this pouch will be embellished too.
How, I'm not quite sure yet.
Creating a surface for hand embroidery using silk velvet and cotton scrim.
This will be embellished by hand using buttonhole stitch, French knots, chain stitch and Swarovski crystals.
