Relaxing Stitching

After a Happy Christmas it's always good to sit down, pick up your needle and thread, creating relaxing moments of happy stitching. Happy New Year.

Cottingley Cornerstone Exhibition

Work delivered to Cottingley Cornerstone for exhibition that starts next week.

St Gemma's Art Exhibition

Pieces ready for exhibition 24 Oct - 27 Oct St Gemma's Art Exhibition

 

Bradford Exhibition

Great news one of my peices of art work has been accepted in Bradford Open 2013. From Sept to Jan 2014 Cartwright Hall will be displaying  my art work.

Frame It

Been very busy, a few exhibitions coming up. Thought I would have my latest pieces framed by http://picturethis-framing.co.uk/. Collected them today, they look really great.

Red Fabric Day

Really enjoyed making my own fabric today. My inspiration was my art work from the Dionne Swift 'Drawing for Textile' course. Starting with a piece of cream wool fabric, I  embellished with merino wool top, creating lines, which developed into more shapes. I added hand stitch and added fabric paper to produce a lovely peice of fabric art.

Rose Leaf Print

Decided to try a little fabric dyeing, so yesterday I soaked a peice of cotton in a dye bath of wind fallen conker shells.  The fabric turned out a shade of orange. Not really happy with fabric so thought I would wrap some rose leaves and rose petals in the fabric and leave it overnight in the dye bath. The result is now drying on the washing line.

Yorkshire Dales

Spectacular views from Wensleydale.

Lines

Being aware of the different lines that are around us.
Observing curve, straight, zig zag lines.
How lines join and patterns emerge.

Summer Printing with Nature

What a lovely relaxing day in the sun I have had today. I have printed on paper using acrylic paint, fern and maple leaves.

I also enjoyed some free drawing with charcoal.

Long Stitches

It's a very sunny evening here in Yorkshire, decided to add some stitches to a previously screen printed peice of cotton. The long stitches are adding texture, really happy with results so far.

Garden Blooms

Roses, peony and clematis, my garden is blooming.

Online Workshops

If you are unable to attend a Dionne Swift workshop, I would highly recommend her on line workshops. Check out Dionne's website http://www.dionneswift.co.uk/

Relaxing Stitching

Hand stitching on embellished peice of fabric. The different lengths of stitch add texture.

Relaxing stitching

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I have been experimenting with screen printing.

After screen printing my design onto fabric, |I have added hand and machine stitch, I like the textures that are developing.

Lines and patterns

Our next exercise was to draw using your pencil taped to the end of a long stick.
I found this very calming.

We then had to choose a small section of your drawing, trace onto paper, photocopy and join together. Really happy with results.

Workshop

More exercises from Dionne Swift Drawing for Textile workshop.
Arrange a group of objects and draw, using a 30cm ruler and different markers.

Drawing for Textile

Started an on line course Drawing for Textile with Dionne Swift.
First lesson, continious line. After arranging a group of objects, we had to draw them without taking your pencil from the paper and not looking at what you were drawing. I used pencil, felt tip pen and charcoal.

Log cabin style quilting

Log cabin quilting is very relaxing once you get going, your piece grows very quickly.
In class this week, we used our indigo dyed fabric to begin our log cabin style deisgn.

I am adding some hand stitching- work in progress!!

I also have some fabric paper that I made a while ago, I experimented using the log cabin style design.

I am adding some hand stitching, love the texture that is developing.

Eucalyptus

This week I wrapped Eucalyptus leaves in cotton and placed in steamer, left for an hour and when dried, I added machine and hand stitch to the print. To finish I hand stitched dried - very delicate - honesty leaves to the fabric. The colours of the honesty leaves seemed to match the eucalyptus print.

Maderia

Patterns in Nature.

Patterns developing by hand