A little embroidery related shopping trip.

 

I've been away. Did you miss me?

I went to London and I went shopping...all things embroidery related.

A video show and tell. 

 

Embroidered patchwork

 

Some of my embroidered petals have now been used for a patchwork flower.

This is the third finished page for my little silk book. 

I have five more to complete and then I need to decide how I will embellish the reverse of each page.

At the moment I am completely devoid of ideas! 

Design collection

 

Do you remember the gingham drawstring pouch?

This is a small selection of the design work which accompanied that piece. 

I am drawing on this collection to inform my current work, some of which you saw yesterday and I feel very fortunate to have all these resources at my fingertips.

 

 

Accessories.

 

Accessories, embellishments, adornments.

These have been made for some time, all part of a bigger collection, the little silk book, the wrapping cloth, the embroidered notebook.

Today I'm assessing, assessing embellishments, wondering what other forms of accessory I can create to complement this body of work. 

Remember...your stash can never be too big! 

Patchwork flowers and embroidered petals.

 

Patchwork flowers for my wrapping cloth.

Hand embroidered petals for more patchwork, more patchwork for my little silk book.

The little silk book.

 

Silk Dupion pages, hand painted pattern, embroidered motifs, patchwork flowers.

Last time I spoke about this little silk book I had finished one page.

I now have two.

I need eight.

I also need eight page reverses and another six patchwork flowers.

Best crack on Karen.... 

A growing hand embroidered cloth.

 

New panels have been added to this cloth, this wrapping cloth.

You haven't seen it for quite a while because I have been concentrating on paper lately but I often have the urge to go back to cloth and when that happens this is the piece I pick up. 

There are two new panels, one a hand painted and embroidered piece, the other plain white Broderie Anglaise which will be embellished with patchwork flowers. 

I think this is almost finished in terms of the embroidered, front surface.

Now I have to decide what to do with regards to the reverse. 

More doodling with needle and thread on paper....

 

It's been a bit of a surface design week!

The doodling on paper from here has been added to....there's still a long way to go. 

A little bit of fabric may find its way onto this one as it develops....maybe.

And then last time I was here it was sheets and sheets of surface design work.

I get a bit addicted to this, the paper pieces, the possibilities of those. 

 

 

Design for Embroidery.

 

We've been doing a little design work in class so these sheets created a while ago came out.

It's such a good creative exercise to examine pieces like this.

They reinspire and spark new ideas regardless of your current project.

Techniques used here are transferable 

Colour, theme and pattern may differ but presentation technique can be used again and again.

 

Doodling with needle and thread on paper.

 

A paper base, lots of French knots, some running stitch, fabric snippets, paper inserts, beads and sequins.

Just doodling really but hoping this evolves into a design sheet crammed with information and inspiration.

More has been added to this since I took these photographs. 

I will show you that progress soon.