Collage, stitch, surface design.

 

A little surface design happening over in class.

Collage, ribbon, papers, tags...all hand stitched to a white base.

This work is moving on, can't show you yet but I'm getting there. 

Gathering

 

I've been gathering, or more accurately 'scrabbling' around to find things that will fit as I progress my latest design collection.

I think I have fallen a bit short to be honest.

It's true when they say you can have a house full of stuff but still not have the one thing you need! 

I'll crack on and make the most of what I've got, I will try and be inventive

(don't laugh) 

Samples.....

 

A table full of samples.

There are ten 'pieces' here.

I say ten pieces but there are many more than that as each piece is made up of at least two embroidered samples.

They need to be attached? joined? a cloth book? or maybe a folded situation? joining these at the side edges not the top edges?

That option needs thought....maybe a border of cloth on that edge which can be folded without folding the embroidered samples?

I'll have a think. 

It was a plan.....

 

Yes, more patchwork, more Grandmothers flower garden.

If you look at the first image there is quite a large piece of patchworked hexagons, it looks a little bit like Australia to me!

It's at the top of that image. 

A little while ago...OK.....quite  along time ago I had a plan for a single bed size patchwork coverlet.

That's as far as I got.

What can I say, distractions, daunted.....

But, last night, looking at my recently pieced Grandmothers flower garden patchwork it occurred to me that I could add them to the Australia piece.

Nothing would match.

It would be a mishmash of all sorts.

What do you reckon? 

"Mishmash" (a confused mixture or jumble) 

(I'm sure you know what mishmash means but I do love a definition) 

Grandmothers flower garden

 

A little patchwork today, Grandmothers flower garden, hexagons.

I love making these, I lose myself, repetitive, meditative stitching.

There are no plans for these as yet but that's OK, they're here, they will be used at some point.

I'm in no rush. 

Thanks so much for all the love on the 'pillows' earlier this week. It's really appreciated.

There are just these two left in the shop now. 

(if your country isn't listed for shipping please contact me and I will try and work something out) 

 

A pile of pillows

 

A pile of hand stitched pillows......three of them for pins and the other for? whatever you wish.

All completely hand made, hand sewn seams, hand sewn edges, hand made Suffolk puffs.

These are now listed in the shop.

 

A little weaving

 

There's a little bit of weaving going on.

These are samples which will inform a little design work I am doing with my online class. 

One piece is just cloth, the other has cloth strips woven through some threads I wrapped on the sewing machine.

Two very different pieces.

Let's see where they go from here. 

Titivated

 

Oversized, stuffed Suffolk puffs.

Finishing touches for these two panels which will soon become a pillow. 

The approximate size of this is twelve by ten inches.

There have been a few pillows created over the past couple of weeks which will be for sale very soon.

I'll let you know when they are in the shop. 

Titivate, spruce, smarten, and spiff all mean "to make a person or thing neater or more attractive."  

Embellishments

 

Just a hand full of stuffed Suffolk puffs for an edge or maybe a seam.

A little design work.

 

Surface design, a new design sheet, each torn piece of paper hand stitched to an A3 base of white.

The end goal here is a design collection which leads to the creation of a drawstring pouch.

As I am working on this in class it's slow going.

Videos are posted monthly so I'm trying to rein myself in and not get carried away!