Thursday 27 March 2014

Wet felt, dry felt and old silk pieces

Last Sunday,I went to Northlight Studios in Hebden Bridge for a textiles class with Sally Darlington (www.sallydarlington.co.uk)  In a fast paced day, we dyed, made felt, tried free machine embroidery (with varying degrees of success.  I wasn't proud!), did some stitching and slashing and ate a great lasagne made by Sally.

I like these pieces.......................





A close up of a wet felted piece.... I'm not sure you can properly see the wonderful sheen on the green fibres or the subtle grey tones which is a pity as they are lovely!












a needle felted piece on which I later added machine stitching


I'm so lucky that I have such generous friends............take a look at these pieces of old silk I received yesterday.  They were stitched together and had, I understand, been part of a skirt now too stained to wear. I removed the stitching and washed and pressed each piece and they are now ready to be re-constructed.  May be I'll show you what I do in a later post.

Thursday 20 March 2014

Work In Progress

I've just started stitching on this piece...............

It began at a class I'm doing at The Hive in Shipley with Claire Welllesley-Smith where we tried image transfer techniques.  These transfers are on fine lawn inkjet printable fabric:


                                              

I have chosen a piece of fabric to layer behind the sheer fabric so that the stitches frame and enhance the images, the writing and the stains and I have made.............


a sandwich of vintage linen, light wadding and fine cotton.  

Here is the fabric sandwich with the lawn laid on top:


I haven't got very far yet with the stitching so I'm off to thread my needle now.......




My latest haul

A good post bag today...... my latest Ebay finds:


                          lovely pieces of vintage patchwork and


hand dyed threads 
which are just
delicious!



Wednesday 19 March 2014

One I made earlier

So, I'm watching a You Tube video about how to create a blog.............  this post will be a record of how well I do following the instructions, which, incidentally, are aimed at 6th grade students.


Tuesday 18 March 2014

Monday 17 March 2014

Fabric Collage


This is one of three collages I have made using fabric samples with different textures and an image transfer - photograph of an aunt.  The collage is held by hand stitching.