Sewing Lady and Lace Effect fabric

Sewing Lady - Above is a digital collage made up of lace, hand embroidery and a vintage image from the book 'Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-century Sources'

Yesterday I posted images of transfer lace, well this is the fabric that was under the lace when I transferred the colour from the paper with an iron.

Tast 6 and Transfer Printed Lace

This weeks stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday is Chevron Stitch.

Once again my sample will be part of a fabric journal. On this page I have used some vintage fabric, painted/stamped paper, painted aida, transfer printed lace and ribbon and a metal washer. I have used cotton perle threads and stranded cotton. I don't like using stranded cotton, it always looks messy when I've finished, I think my stitching becomes more untidy the older I get! [TAST 2010]

Below are some transfer printed laces. Last time I used my transfer paints some had dried up so I thought I had better start using them more often before they are unusable. I also did some fabrics which I'll show another time.

Altered T-Shirt

I altered a plain t-shirt the other week. I used vintage patterned fabrics to make flower shapes. I would normally use bondaweb to stick the shapes to the t-shirt but I didn't have any so I used fabric glue instead.  I hand stitched it in place, running stitches around the petals and blanket stitch around the middle of them. I have washed it since and the edges have frayed slightly but I think it has improved it.

Coffee [TAW]

Take a Word - this weeks challenge is 'coffee'

The coffee adverts were from a book entitled 'How it all began in the pantry'. The figures were from the book 'Women: a pictorial archive from Nineteenth century sources'.

The background, cups, cakes are my drawings.

Click on image to enlarge.

Envelopes and IF [suspense]

I created this envelope on the computer using a free label from here and doing a few alterations such as space for a stamp. I printed it and made it into an envelope. The envelope below was already a cute little square brown envelope. For this one I used a purchased stamp to decorate around the edges.

Illustration Friday's challenge this week is 'suspense'. I used this drawing from my sketchbook of a giant prawn and a man on a beach. Are the tables turned? Will the prawn eat the man instead of the other way round?

TAST 5

Take a Stitch Tuesday - this weeks stitch is Herringbone Stitch

and I did actually get it done on Tuesday, but there has been a lot of dust and chaos around here!

Most of the patches are hand painted/stamped papers and transfer printed lace, another page for the fabric journal.

We are having a new kitchen, but before it is put in we have had rewiring done, so lots of new holes in the walls and ceiling - the plasterer covering over the mess as I write. At the moment it is an empty room, all the old units and fittings taken out, no central heating or lights/electricity in there, and kitchen contents spread around the house, so as you can imagine there has been quite a bit of disruption with power off at times and no access to my computer[!] and the dust gets everywhere.....still it will be great when it is done.

Chair Stencil

Above - the finished picture

I started with a photo of a chair and my challenge was to make a stencil

I drew the chair, then simplified it to make a stencil, I used it both sides to make facing chairs. The background was painted and it was collaged to a doodle in a sketchbook.

The ladies in the finished picture were added digitally.

They were from a Women Archive book.

Sketchbook 15 [pages 57-63]

Fish, Birds and Porthole

View from a porthole [cut out]

below is the full view

simple bird sketch

painted fabric and stitching

orange fish shapes cut from found picture of another sea creature

Forward [IF] and more Boat Pages

Illustration Friday challenge - Forward

I was in quilt mode when I did the above, just the painting though, I didn't get around to doing a quilt.  I did a series of polar bears and other wild animals.

Watercolours

Watercolours and collage

Pen, watercolours, collage

Pen background. The boats are made from painted papers and stitched

More pages from the Boat Book

OO LA LA [TM]

Three Muses challenge - OO LA LA

The background is Paris of course, a photo I took when I was there, the lovers are from a book of archive images. I thought you might also like to see this photo of a very large sculpture which I also saw in Paris.

Cretan Stitch [TAST]

Take a Stitch Tuesday - this week's stitch is cretan stitch. I used this stitch a lot when I was doing my City & Guilds embroidery course. But I still had to look how to do it! [poor brain]

It is to be part of a fabric journal, which includes paper. I scanned this page first but the top left leafy paper came out all blurred, so then I photographed it but it is a bit dark.

Anyone in the UK see the Northern Lights yesterday? I didn't and I don't suppose I will today as it is very cloudy.

Two Art

Today I have two very different kinds of art. First I have digital art,  I used a photograph for the background [one I took on a trip to Scotland] and the bird is a lovely image from the Graphics Fairy

The other art is a very textured painting on canvas. Can you guess what I used under the paint to create the texture? [It's not texture paint or anything like that]

Moo [TAW] and Twirl [IF]

Take a word challenge - Moo. I've not done a 'moo' before, I thought it was something to do with a cow but evidently not. It is a little card which measures 1.10 x 2.80 inches. The skirt, legs and blouse are from a vintage sewing book I have, the arm[s] was from artchive.com, the head and the background were from Karen Whimsy

Illustration Friday challenge - Twirl 

The original shown below was a brush pen doodle which I altered in Paint.net for the twirl challenge.