My fabric painted pieces are now evolving into a wrapping cloth.
(girls in class, I made you a short video explaining this)
Sections of white cloth will be added to fabric painted pieces after they have been embroidered and patchwork added to the white space.
Seams will be embellished with running stitch, French knots and bullion knots.
It's growing quite quickly but next up I need to embroider another painted piece.
I often speak about how past work inspires and informs and consequently am a big advocate of never throwing anything away.
The books, ledgers, sketchbooks here are old, some older than others.
The red one for example was made 30 years ago.
These pieces and others are referred to regularly.
Having references like these is invaluable and I feel fortunate to have resources like these literally at my fingertips.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
