Pastel Book Pages [part 2]

Fancy hem stitch, variations of running stitch and French knots.

The flowery fabric is vintage fabric, the other fabric was created with transfer paints.

Right - Cloud filling stitch used as couching to hold fabric and lace in place.

Left - Raised Cross Stitch Flower, painted lace, sequins, painted fabric.

Right - crested chain stitch, vintage gingham and dyed laces, vintage suspender, scrap of yellow vintage fabric, lace, French knots, running stitch.

Left - Portuguese stem stitch, running stitch and French knots, gingham, dyed net curtain.

Right - hand painted fabric, dyed laces, running stitches, French knots, art buttons.

Left - wrapped coral stitch, French knots, vintage fabrics, lace

Right - painted tyvek with up and down feathered buttonhole stitch on the green spiral, fly stitch on the blue and feather stitch on the purple spiral, beads, sequins, hand painted fabric

Left - Dyed laces, embroidery, hand painted fabric, beads, sequins

Left - up and down feathered buttonhole stitch, lazy daisy stitches, beads, painted lace

Right - inside back cover

Pastel Book Pages [part 1]

If you have been following my blog you will have seen most of the pages before. 

These are the fabrics I used while I taking part in the Take a stitch Tuesday challenge.

Right – breton stitch, braid, lace, beads, hand painted fabric

Left - embroidery stitches on top of a painted flower, painted lace, hand painted fabric.

Right - woven detached chain stitch, back stitch, beads, hand painted fabric.

Left - diamond stitch, dyed laces, beads, sequins, hand painted fabric

Right - embroidery, beads, hand painted fabric 

Right - fly stitch, beads on transfer printed fabric

Left - Dyed lace, tyvek, embroidery and beads on a transfer printed background. Bits of lace were cut out and stitched to the background.

Left - Slipped detached chain stitch, French knots, whipped running stitch, and running stitch.

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

Right - coral stitch, this I have stitched in green thread  [the stems], buttonhole bar [pink thread], French knots, woven spiders wheel, fly stitch and beads.

The background is a hand painted and stamped fabric.

Pastel Fabric Book

I've finished another book, this one is all fabric and all hand stitched. I have used mainly pastel colours, hence the name.

Dyed, painted and stamped fabrics with dyed laces. I've made straps from the lace and they fasten with buttons. Button trim bottom and top as well. Experimental book binding, i.e. make it up as I go along.

The back of the book

I will show the inner pages another day, I didn't like the photos as there was something distracting in the background.

Victorian Inspired Silhouettes

I thought I would join the challenge at Inspiration Avenue - a Kodak Moment.

[My challenge to you is to create an artistic piece that captures your idea of a "Kodak Moment."]

What came to mind was early Victorian photography and the silhouettes they used to do. I've altered photos taken from the side and put them in frames from the Graphics Fairy. The butterflies background was also from there too.

The Caterpillar and Painted Pages

I've had one of my little doodles [created on my Samsung tablet] published in this magazine for kids. It is a shark in a goldfish bowl and it is a big doodle now!

More about the magazine here

I bought some vintage books a while ago and was cutting bits out and using them for collage but I thought I would paint some of the pages first. They look better in real life than in the photos. The markings were made with hand made stamps.

Trees

Made up trees above and the tree below is my version of a Dragon Blood tree, the flowers are my creations.

Created on a tablet.

Girls About

Mixed media digital art - two girls on their holidays, the one above is in Majorca and the one below is in Rye, Sussex. Worked on a tablet. The designs on their clothes may eventually be fabric.

TAST 77 and 78

Take a Stitch Tuesday - week 78, Cloud filling stitch.

My version consists of cloud stitch over cloud stitch in different coloured threads and I've used it as a couching stitch to hold the dyed laces and pink gingham in place. For neatness the stitch is best worked on an evenweave fabric, hence mine is not so neat. If you want to see details about the challenge go here and maybe try it out, it is an easy stitch to do. The background fabric is actually pink, and vintage, it is thin but I think it always was and it has not gone like that with age.

I also did this stitch for TAST 2010, see here

TAST 77 - I have an old sample for woven cross stitch here

If you don't like spiders look away now, I saw both of these beauties today. Click on the pictures if you want a closer look.

Two pictures

One mixed media collage from a sketchbook above.

Brusho, found images from a vintage book, aquamarkers.

And one digital collage created on a tablet. I used the brushes in the sketchbook pro app for the backgrounds, but the patterns on the clothes were my worked my me, altered photos, you can tell his top was originally knitting.

Dyed lace arrangement

Dyed lace, tyvek, embroidery and beads on a transfer printed background [blobs & splatters]. Bits of lace were cut out and stitched to the background.

The hydrangeas in my garden are flowering now, though not a lot, the plants are mostly leaves.

Birds on Leaves

Created on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with sketchbook pro