A glass cabinet, three shelves.
This cabinet is mostly for completed embroidered pieces although occasionally I put 'stuff' in there out of the way.
It currently holds hand embroidered pouches, embroidered cloth sample books, small stitch sample books, unused pin pillows, a pillow I intend to gift, a little stitched paper and a few cards of pure silk ribbon.
(I tend to lose my pure silk ribbon if I put it elsewhere!)
You may remember this post.
Well my button card now has pride of place.
I can gaze at it any time I want.
You must have things you just need to gaze at every so often, or is it just me.
I bought this at a Paris flea market.
Real treasure.
(I'm so sorry if I haven't replied to comments or visited your place. I'm still battling here and am not quite 100%. I'll hopefully be back to 'normal' soon.)
Was I ever normal?
Cutting out the lining fabric for my jewellery pouches.
A template cut from wallpaper, pattern weights, tailors chalk and some beautifully soft cotton voile.
These linings will be embroidered at the top edge.
French knots and Swarovski crystals on one and French knots with pink sequins on the other.
I best crack on.
Thanks so much for your messages after my last post.
Keep taking the tablets they say.
Good advice.
Hi everyone, how you doing?
No embroidery today.
Shelf sorting.
Making room for my Paris haul.
In truth I have been unwell for a couple of weeks.
My embroidery is suffering due to brain fog from medication.
Hexagons are the answer to brain fog...slow and doable with an empty head.
I'm mostly pottering and can just about manage to sort these shelves.
What a task.
Don't we accumulate?
Two walks around the Zoo with two of my favourite little boys cleared the head slightly.
I'm going to the Zoo so often they will invite me to their staff Christmas party.
Take care and I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly.
I have started on the embellishment of the patchwork pouch I showed you last time I was here.
There will be seven patchwork pieces on this in total, all created from Liberty Tana Lawn, the Little Mirabelle pattern.
The sequins are here as I am hoping to add those to bullion knots as part of the surface embroidery on this piece.
Two jewellery pouches in progress.
The white piece is almost finished. The patchwork piece is just beginning.
When these are drawn up with a drawstring they will be small, delicate and dainty with the base fabric measuring just seventeen inches.
Both will have an embroidered lining and a hand made cord to fasten them.
I am using exclusively Liberty 'Little Mirabelle' Tana lawn for the patchwork.
It's so very pretty.
The ongoing patchwork marathon.
If this is new to you there's a post here which will update you on what I am doing with this patchwork piece.
It's definitely growing but I am resisting measuring it.
I'm just going to keep going and keep going.
I am using almost exclusively Liberty Tana lawn and there are a couple of close ups so you can see the pattern mix.
Also....it looks like a map of the world ha ha.
That isn't intentional!
Sorry I've been missing.
Illness is the culprit.
I'm hoping to be back to my super fit and healthy self soon!
Oh and feel free to count the hexagons and let me know!!
New sequins from Paris.
A notebook.
Fourteen French knots.
A tiny design exercise.
Hi everyone, how are you?
It's been a while.
Things have been hectic here since I returned from my trip to Paris.
In addition to tackling piles of laundry I have a dose of man flu kindly gifted by my
two year old grandson otherwise known as the super spreader.
He is of course forgiven because he is so cute!
Today though, a glimpse for you of some of my Paris haul.
Now to find homes for it all.
It's definitely growing.
You can compare it to here.
This is a lifetime commitment ha ha.
I want it single bed size and that scares me.
I'm not even looking to check how big that actually is.....don't tell me.
This is made completely with Liberty Tana Lawn.
That's a bonus.
It means I need to keep buying Liberty Tana Lawn!
I also gave in to temptation and removed some of the templates.
Very satisfying.
I'll be missing for a while from today.
I'm going here.
Behave yourselves whilst I'm gone.
x
Lace cloth created from silk velvet and cotton scrim.
This is the base of a new pouch, a new drawstring pouch.
The lace cloth I created in this post has now been completely embellished by hand.
I have used buttonhole stitch, chain stitch and French knots, adding Swarovski crystals in selected areas.
The remainder of this pouch will be embellished too.
How, I'm not quite sure yet.
Creating a surface for hand embroidery using silk velvet and cotton scrim.
This will be embellished by hand using buttonhole stitch, French knots, chain stitch and Swarovski crystals.
A shop update.
I finally got round to listing these three books in the shop.
All hand embroidered.
Gingham, Liberty fabric, white tissue.....
French knots, bullion knots, web stitches, little scraps of ribbon.
There are lots more images on the individual listings if you want to take a look.
x
Searching through my YouTube videos I came across this one.
Over ten thousand views!
Wow.
Who are you all?
Say hello!
A hand made drawstring pouch, finished!!
I had just added the ribbon ties in this post.
Gingham patchwork with a little patterned fabric too.
A delicate white base fabric and a soft white cloth lining.
Am I pleased with it.
Yes!
It's ongoing.
It will be ongoing for quite some time!
It has grown.
You can compare it to the last time you saw it.
I'm working some single hexagons to fill awkward space alongside the grandmothers flower garden pieces.
I didn't measure it today.
I will let that surprise me maybe in a couple of weeks.
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In other news.
Three grandsons under five years of age means lots of mixed up Lego kits which means Nanna needs to sort it all out.
Anyone want to give me a hand?
Another distraction, something I have been meaning to do for goodness knows how long.
I have a large sketchbook to fill with stitched papers, mixed patterns, mixed weights, mixed finishes.
This is number one.
I can assure you this has grown since you last saw it.
It now measures, at its widest point, twenty nine by 12 inches whilst the latest small piece waiting to be added measures eleven by nine inches.
There was a passing thought to count the single hexagons here. It was fleeting ha ha.
Feel free if you want to do that....but let me know how many then I don't have to do it lol.
I only work on this piece a couple of evenings a week in between doing other embroidery.
It will take a while...a very long while.....a true labour of love in the making.
In my post yesterday I mentioned I wanted to make progress with my drawstring pouch.
Success!
Sixteen pieces of pink gingham ribbon have been stitched at regular intervals around the outside section of the pouch.
When this is finished they will be tied.
I also think I have sourced my lining cloth, that is ordered and on its way.
Let's hope that when it gets here it is suitable.
This patchwork piece has been added to........the edge of a vintage handkerchief and a scrap of lace embellished with French knots.
I will leave this piece for a little while now as I am anxious to finish my drawstring pouch.
There are ribbon ties to sew onto that and a lining cloth to source.
Came across these this morning.
So happy I did!
Three small stitched studies, surface design pieces from this recent design exploration collection.
These pieces have been mounted in simple box frames without glass.
I now have a hankering to do the same with the larger piece in the image above.
(top left)
A little relaxing hand embroidery.
Small patchwork pieces, French knots and gimp secured with bullion knots.
This piece has a base of silk dupion
I think there will be more of these small embroidery and patchwork studies.
After all, you can never have too many cloth books.
Pink gingham ribbon for cords and drawstrings.
Compare this to Wednesday...it's growing, maybe slowly but it's growing.
The smaller piece from Wednesday has been stitched to the main piece and there is a new small piece waiting to go on.
This is created from one inch hexagons.
At it's widest points the main piece measures twenty two by eleven inches, the small piece nine and a half by eight inches.
When I am stitching this I am tempted to remove the card templates from the central areas.
Can anyone who knows about these things tell me if there's any reason I shouldn't do that?
