Do you remember this post?
I was marking and cutting out patchwork pieces for a new project.
This is where I am now with that embroidery/patchwork.
Two floral patchwork pieces have been attached to one side of a silk dupion panel and now it's decision time for ribbon/trim to lie alongside that.
More embellishment will be added to the right hand side of the panel once the ribbon has been secured with hand stitch.
The pages for my new artist book are almost finished.
The surfaces are embellished with hand stitch and scraps of vintage cloth so I'm now considering the left hand edges, the edges which will be secured when this finally reaches book form.
Once the edges are attached with more hand stitching these pieces will need to be backed with more stitched paper.
I will then bind them together with either ribbon or hand stitched ball buttons....or maybe both.
A nine inch square pocket for a wrapping cloth.
Embroidered and lined, this pocket is the final piece of the surface of this cloth.
Next up....a little wadding and backing with a complimentary fabric.
My recent work on paper is continuing.
Stitched papers as a base, embellished with hand embroidery, snippets of vintage cloth, trims at edges, a button or two, tiny pom poms and now half inch, hand made Suffolk puffs.
I am aiming for five pieces here which will then be backed with stitched paper before being turned into a small book.
A small book of white and embroidery.
(white is so difficult to photograph....hope the image quality is ok for you)
The past couple of days have been spent on my sewing machine creating surfaces, paper and cloth as a base for hand embroidery.
The paper ones are much needed at the moment as I'm currently working on a few more of these.
Hand embroidery on these pieces is the next stage.
There will be lots of bullion and French knots along with buttonhole stitch edges and vintage fabric snippets.
These aren't 'new', in fact some of them are positively ancient!
I'm reminding myself of the value of having what Rachel rightly called a large amount of 'resources'....not stash as I called it.
Buttons and Suffolk puffs, perfect for those little finishing touches.
In addition to hand embroidery I'm also partial to a little bit of patchwork.
If you follow this link and scroll down there are some 30ish posts where I have used patchwork in several different ways.
Because I use this process regularly it's always handy to have a stash and the means to add to that stash.
These are things I pick up when I'm in need of a half hour of not thinking, just keeping my hands busy and my brain empty.
There are fabric pieces I've cut ready to add to templates, individual covered templates waiting for what comes next along with finished patches and some partially finished patches.
More has been added to the pieces you saw in my last post.
What I love most about these pieces is the irregular edges which come from tearing papers, overlaying papers.
Curved lines of buttonhole stitch, bullion knots and French knots emphasize those irregualr edges.
It's then really exciting to find snippets of white to add to that surface and continue embellishing.
Today I realised I need to stitch more papers in order to finish this piece.
Another process for these compositions which I love.
