Monday, 23 April 2012

Been Doing My Homework

But first I had to make a journal to put my homework in.  Whilst I love making journals I think it's probably more of a reaction to when I was at university and we were told what size sketchbook to use and we weren't allowed to decorate them which was crazy beings as we were doing a creative degree.  Enough said, rant over.


The theme for this term's embroidery class is Summer so I immediately thought of gardens (and daytrips to cemeteries) so I used pages from old gardening books and some of my stash of floral wallpapers.

I began playing around with fabric transfer paints.  When I was in class a stray thread had got in the way of the transfer but I liked the happy accident so decided to explore that further, using threads, lace and gauze as masks.

 I also painted a clematis design and transferred that to cream poly-cotton fabric, ready to embroider. 

4 comments:

  1. Wow, very pretty! I love your experiments! Thanks for sharing this inspiration. And schools have stupid rules sometimes (decided not to share my rants, lol).

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  2. Lovely journal! I think there is nothing better than making one! :)

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  3. You amaze me ,you always come up with such interesting ideas.

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  4. Always fun to come here and see what you have been doing... Your experiments are absolutely fascinating. LOVE your creativity!

    Hope your day is going great!
    Gaby

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