quiet.....

spending a quiet weekend with sketchbooks for inspiration and cloth to embroider..... 

Inspire

To prepare myself creatively for my new class I have been revisiting old techniques. Gathering images around me that inspire me, that I love. Adding scraps of lace and colour, manipulating cloth and adding touches of that here and there. You can probably detect that I adore Christian Lacroix....be still my beating heart. As for the work of Maxine Bristow...I aspire to such amazing pieces. I have travelled to see her pieces more than a few times and ''in the flesh' they really blow you away. Huge pockets, repetitive stitching...vessels of the beautiful kind.

It is as dark as night here today, hence no pictures of my white cloth. Somebody have a word with the necessary department please......I shall stitch whilst I wait....

inspiration?

I'm feeling a little strange today. I finished Helen's cloth last night, the one I made along with my class on 'embroider, embellish, create' and it signals the end of that little chapter. Now I'm a little lost, not sure really, floundering maybe. I think that does tend to happen when a major project is finished and you are faced with a huge expanse of time to fill. What to do? What to make? Nothing isn't the answer, not an option. I can in no way imagine myself without anything to embroider....no way. Never mind withdrawals, it would be a nightmare.

So in order to gain a little inspiration the sketchbooks are out...just looking for now and pondering, yes quietly pondering. I do have this to finish and of course I am making buttons for my new class but finishing the white cloth for Helen has left a massive hole that needs to be filled.

I think the rest of my day will be spent in quiet contemplation, gazing at sketchbooks....