Two pages

 

Last time I was here it was all about the hand stitched overlays.

Today it's two new pages which will each have an overlay too.

I'm possibly going to add more to these, that's why they don't yet have an overlay. 

The embellishment here is all hand stitch, scraps of cloth and scraps of paper too.

You may have noticed a little watercolour in the backgrounds. 

I'm not sure of the gsm of the paper in this notebook.

It's quite thin and almost certainly not made to accept wet media but it didn't complain too much about the minimal watercolour here.

Hand stitched overlays

 

Hand stitched overlays for the pages in this little book.

They provide depth along with space to add more embellishment.

They are yet to be attached as I have plans for fabric swatches too and perhaps some little buttons for the pages, all coordinated of course. 

More bits and pieces.

 

In my last post I was rescuing homeless samples, adding more embellishment and joining them to create larger pieces.

 

The pieces here today live in the same cabinet.

 The needlecase and pin pillow were created in class.

 

The other two pieces here are stitched papers. Altered with machine stitch before hand embroidery was added. They are also homeless samples I guess.

 

I'm thinking they could become the start of  a new artist book. 

Bits and pieces.

 

I'm gathering homeless embroidered samples.

They will be joined, added to, made bigger, embellished more and be safely preserved inside another cloth book, yes another one. 

I lost my collection of 'cloth book' references, they were in the other place. 

Maybe I should create a page for them here. 

Embellishments

 

Hand stitched embellishments for this project.

Yes, they were fiddly! My girls in class won't be shocked to hear that ha ha.

The little square pieces are one inch in size, the tiny tag pieces measure one inch by half an inch.

If you can't source pieces to fit with your colour and pattern choices then why not make them youself?