Friday Catch Up - 21Jan22

Doodlewash Challenge

R is for Rose

S is for Seal

T is for Tortoise

I'm thinking of repeating one of the paintings from this month for a postcard for the Twitter Art Exhibit. People can send in their artworks, about postcard size to sell to raise money, this year it is for the Encephalitis Society.

I sent one in last year for a different cause and it sold on the first day of the exhibition.

I signed up for the TextileArtists.org stitch camp this week, it lasts for 5 days and was free to join. The workshop instruction was given by Gwen Hedley.

Day  mark making on fabric with paints using 2 colours.

 

When I got started on day 2 I realized that there was not enough black paint on the yellow half so I painted on more black. I forgot to take a photo of the full piece before starting to cut it up but this is a photo of half of it.

We also did a piece with more spaced out paint.

I thought the small might make an interesting fabric so here it is. It was nothing to do with the stitch camp, just went off on a tangent.

Day 2 - Deconstruct and reconstruct.

Pieces cut up and then joined together.

Day 3 - Adding hand stitching - no photo yet

Day 4 - Adding layers - no photo yet

As it is Friday again Happy Paint Party Friday

 

Feather and Stitch

Painted background fabric. Real feathers. Embroidery and beading on aida fabric.

Puffin

I painted canvas fabric with acrylic paints, then enhanced the painting with freehand machine embroidery. [the black thin lines]

Toad in the Grass Applique and Bugs

Painted fabrics, stamped and painted toad, own stamp. Cut and applied pieces of fabric for grass. 

I've not been blogging last week because I had my mum, sister and her grandson staying. On one of the rainy days we made bugs from egg boxes.

Hare Applique and Scotland

Painted fabric, stamped and painted hare, machine stitching [fun foam stamp cut on the Zing]

I've been to Scotland for a few days, this is Loch Lomond

TAST 68

Take a stitch Tuesday 68 - slipped detached chain stitch.

I have also used French knots, whipped running stitch, and running stitch.

The pink fabric is a vintage scrap and on the other I used a painting technique.

I'm a bit behind with posting my 30 days of creativity  - this is day 6

[I've had relatives staying]

TAST 58, Painted Fabrics

Take a Stitch Tuesday - week 58 - I'm a bit behind, this stitch is from a few weeks ago. The stitch is woven detached chain stitch and my sample includes back stitch and beads. Click on the image to enlarge.

The background is fabric I had painted and stamped on using mainly hand made stamps and roller stamps. I did a few other fabrics and lace too, they are for a new book of pastel colours [some are bright pastel?!]

Tortoise Embroidery

Take a stitch Tuesday has started again which got me thinking ...I never did show the finished embroidery I was working on last year. There were a number of TAST 2012 stitches used in the piece, which I posted about as I did them. I started the piece as a painting on fabric, then did a lot of freehand machine embroidery mainly on the grass but also on the tortoise and flowers. The picture directly below was taken after I had first started on the hand embroidery.

The entire tortoise shell is covered with beads, sewn on.

I also added beads and sequins to some of the flowers.

Click on the images to enlarge.

I didn't show it before Christmas as it was a gift for my daughter.

WIP Flower Embroidery

I wasn't sure whether to include this in Take a stitch Tuesday or Work in progress Wednesday, either can be found on the pintangle site. It is work in progress but also includes some TAST embroidery stitches and this week is a catch up week on TAST. [we can create an interesting visual piece using 3-6 of the stitches already used]. The yellow stitches on the top right have been shown last week but the other yellow ones are new, a variation of sheaf stitch which we did last week. The purple are lazy daisy, the orange are French knots and ?, the blue are fly stitches.

The purple are fern stitch

and the orange ?- like two fly stitches joined together

All parts of a bigger piece which I will reveal at a later date.

Hand Embroidered Painted Fabric

The fabric [butter muslin] started as a wrapping cloth for steaming digitally printed fabrics so it had some colour and stains on it. I then used a handmade rolling stamp to add more colour and painted it when it was dry. I've used running stitches, French knots, bullions and some other embroidery stitches for decoration. Click on the image for a better look. I'm wondering what to do with it now - a book cover maybe?

Rolling Stamp 84, Fabric and Paper

My arty friends and myself set ourselves challenges and one for this month is to use/do something with a tube. I haven't made a rolling stamp for a while so I thought I would do a new one. I used it on the background paper above and on the fabric below. The fabric was used originally as a pressing cloth when I used to steam digitally printed fabrics and it had some marks on it. I have been adding paint splodges on purpose to try and make it more interesting and I used the new rolling stamp on it in two different colours. I've started to quilt and stitch on it since taking the photo and I will show you the progress in a few days. Click on the images to enlarge. There is a picture of the rolling stamp below and the marks it makes.

TAST 10

Take a Stitch Tuesday - week 10 is the simple running stitch.

The background fabric is hand painted, the dark blue rectangle is hand painted and stamped paper, the image is  from a magazine. If you look closely you will see a fancy button too. Click on image to enlarge.

My daughter came up this last weekend and she brought some flower chocolates for me. It was a shame to eat such pretty things but these two were the only ones left to photograph. There were some roses and daffodils originally too. [I didn't eat them all myself!]

TAST 9

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Another page for my fabric journal. The stitch this week is couching and I have couched threads down with ribbon yarn and couched ribbon yarn darn with threads. I have used the regular style of couching around the rectangular piece of painted paper and the green ribbon. I have also couched ribbon yarn down with herringbone stitch and feather stitch. To hold the upcycled metal ring in place I have used detached chain stitch and buttonhole stitch. The background fabric was painted.