A little surface design

 

This morning.

A busy table. 

Surface design for class.

Get your needles threaded girls there's a video coming soon x 

Finishing embroidered pages.

 

In my last post about this hand embroidered artist book I mentioned how the next stage would be to back each page.

That is happening now and I am about to create a front and back cover, again from delicate stitched papers. 

I demonstrate the backing process in the video today.

In the video I also show a glimpse of the embellishment on each page, pages created by first stitching delicate tissue papers and tearing them to create surfaces for hand embroidery. 

 

Ribbon, prairie points and French knots.

 

I made a decision on which ribbon to use after this post.

French knots and prairie points have been added and the next step? more ribbon?

I'm not sure.

I am tempted to add web stitches to the space around the patchwork motifs but that's as far as my thinking has gone. 

(this piece will be a pillow, a gift.....I hope they like it) 

Auditioning ribbon

 

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.

Edges for pages

 

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 pocket for a wrapping cloth.

 

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 tailor tacking foot.

 

My tailor tacking foot. 

More paper stitching, more white.

 

Half inch Suffolk puffs for white.

 

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) 

Unfinished. Hand embroidery. A short video.

 

 

The front.

 

 

The reverse of each piece.

 This collection was created over 2024/25.

 

I guess I could call it finished but not quite.

 

These pieces need to be joined to create a flip up cloth book, a book of samples, a teaching resource.

 

Its worth is incancuable.

 

It is irreplaceable and a joy to possess. 

 

 

Sewing machine

 

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.