a pile of pockets

These pockets came on holiday with me to France......then they came home with me. I have been asked to list my unsold items from France in the shop so here you are. I also have a few buttons (not many) and that's about it to be honest. The buttons aren't in the shop because I want to keep those for future work. I know, I'm greedy and selfish :(

I'm still dithering a bit over my dilemma from yesterday...how to mount the pieces in order that I won't want to keep them for myself. I know that probably doesn't make sense but I need to get my head sorted and begin to see my next '''pages'' as not mine, for sale, for someone else. That just takes a little time. For example....all the pockets were made with a view to selling them...now I need to get my head in that mode for my compositions, my page pieces.

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can you spot a theme

Three pieces, one created some weeks ago, one created in the past two days and one created yesterday.  A theme is emerging, a repetition of process and placement. I can probably run with this for quite some time...a growing collection of samples, of pockets inspired by lace cloth, silk, embroidery and layering. 

Can you imagine pockets patched with lace? Hankies combined with scraps of silk and overlaid with lace? Embellishing silk with snippets of hankies? Overlaying those embroidered cloths with lace and transforming those embellished pieces into pockets?

I think I have just nailed down the theme for my new class.

Last night, the embroidery, I doodled, can you tell? That piece is more colourful. It works. At least I think so.