Stitcher’s sketchbooks
A spur of the moment project – Stitcher’s Sketchbooks as taught by Ali Ferguson via TextileArtist.org. I enjoyed making these and I’m glad I did, but I’m not sure I will use them as...
Monthly Archive: May 2021
Golden houses backgrounds
I had a lot of fun applying a layer of stitching embellishments to each of the 12 golden houses. Then I chose some tentative backgrounds to stitch them to, eventually planning for a patchwork...
Dandelion harvest
Alice Fox* on Instagram got me interested in the stems of dandelions. The earlier ones were on short stubby stems, but later in the season I found these very long glossy beauties. They had...
Sewn board book
Another adventure in bookmaking with the Handmade Book Club – the sewn board book. This is the first time I’ve sewed, pressed, glued and covered a spine. I made a lot of mistakes as...
Golden houses
Some of the details of the work in progress, stitching extra layers onto these houses:
Bead stitch spine
This is from one of Ali’s Thursday morning demos. Not a very good photo, as you can’t see the beads. I was moved to make it because I really like the effect of the...
Forgotten details
I must have stitched these little row of colors here. No memory of doing it. It was fun to find.