Pattern and stitch

 

Thi spiece popped up in my Facebook memories today and I'm so pleased it did.

It has provided more inspiration for my current design work especially the gimp and the buttons but also the composition, the placement of paper alongside embroidery.

The before....embroidery on hand painted fabric

 

You last saw this piece in a short video where I was embellishing seams with bullion knots.

Today there is a short video showing the contrast between the hand painted fabric when it hasn't been embroidered and how it transforms after hand embroidery is added.

I now have a huge pile of holiday laundry to tackle.

You will find me next to the ironing board. 

 

Holiday sewing plans

 

I'm going here tomorrow for 10 days.

This little sewing kit should keep me going for a few evenings whilst I am relaxing on the balcony.

Hexagons of Liberty fabric and paper templates for Grandmothers flower garden motifs, all gathered and placed in a hand made pocket. 

Meanwhile, if you get bored, there are lots of videos on this link. 

And also on my YouTube channel. 

Grids and Guides stitching

 

It's a hardback notebook today, one of these (and no, I'm not on commission).

I can recommend stitching into one of these books.

There are pages of dots, graph paper and other linear patterns which make spacing so easy. 

The paper is very receptive to needle and thread too.

I haven't actually worked into this one for a while and I'm tempted but I must finish some other things first. 

Stitched notebooks.

 

You have been seeing a lot of stitching in notebooks recently.

Well....I have lots of those, embroidered/stitched notebooks. 

Today it's a different one, an old one.

(you may have seen it at the 'other place')

There are lots of these little stitched/design/exploration pieces dotted around my house.

I'm tempted to keep sharing them with you. 

Bullion knots for a seam. A short video.

 

I love embellishing a seam!

Creating a wrapping cloth means lots of seams.

Today, bullion knots.

A short video. 

 

My current embroidery hoop and another type of overlay.

 

My current project is all consuming. 

I am not working on anything else. 

A reminder, there's a wrapping cloth and a design notebook. 

More painted cloth is being embellished for the wrapping cloth and 'different' overlays are being created for the design notebook.

There are plans for more hand made embellshments for the notebook to accompany my little mushroom tags. 

Can you tell I am enjoying this? 

Hand painted fabric and patchwork.

 

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. 

Reference, inspiration.

 

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 notebook exercise.

 

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.