Recap on one design process so far

 

It is interesting going back and looking at the journey in these photos all together.

 

 

 

 

where to next?

 

 



Playing with background

 

This style of stitching is very familiar for me to do. Coloured silk strips overlaid with organza and secured and textured with running stitch. The running stitch is worked at 90' to the direction you want the ripples to run. In the real piece, the stitches don't stand out as much as the ripples.

 



... and going forward again

 

well, forwards, backwards, sideways, I'm going somewhere! Rich and varied textures

 

 

 



Lost my way

 

There are many times that things are going along so well, and then for no apparent reason, the wheels fall off the apple cart. What to do next? So I got out the Kitchen Sink

 

Doileys and lace (covered with organza because I want to create layers, not appealing to me at the moment tho')

 

 

Ledger pictures and fabrics

 

and because I didn't have enough fabrics, I decided to make some more, with various soluble and sticky fabrics, and lots of little chopped up bits and pieces, and a bit of embellishing machine as well.

 

 

They are not all finished yet, but maybe inspiration will come ...

 

 



Ledger Page 15

Here is my first completed stitched ledger page - a series of samples for shell stitching. Its a very neat way to try things out in stitch without committing to a huge piece.

 

 

 

Detail of the right hand page (notes on the left - above - on tracing paper will be overlayed on this page and will be able to be flipped up out of the way as necessary). Mainly French knots and couching, on fabrics, with and without organza overlay.

 

 

 



starting to stitch

 

Our lovely teacher has (finally) allowed us to start stitching!!! Thank you Karen!!! (this is week 4)

 

 



Pages from my ledger

As I sketch and experiment for my online class with Karen Ruane we are encouraged to take photos of our work and post them on our (private) flickr group - so that Karen can comment and the other class members can see what we are up to (hence all my pictures).

 

Another advantage of all this photography is that I can then print the photos and work on them some more - I have made use of tracing paper extensively to experiment with design over another image. I am also using tracing paper to write my comments and thoughts on - that way I have my "wordy" record of process etc in the same place as the actual sampling work, but my messy writing isn't detracting from the pages (phew - does that make sense?).