Snake

Paper mache, pages from an old book were used for the top coat.

I've been in London over the weekend to see my daughter and son in law.

We were going to go to the London Museum yesterday but the rain was so heavy we decided not to. But the rain decided to join us inside so after mopping the floors I took photos of Audrey the cat.

Paper Mache Fox, SC3

We had a play day with paper mache at a friends house a couple of weeks ago.

My creation started as a fox, I'm not sure it looks much like one now.

 I used recycled envelopes [insides] for the top coat and sequins with drawing pins for the eyes.

It needs putting on a board to straighten it out.

Spoonchallenge  day 3 - tree

TAST, WIP, SC2

These are both 'work in progress' and embroidery stitches for Take a stitch Tuesday.

The top one is beaded long tail chain stitch [TAST 114] with threaded running stitch.

Below is whipped long tailed chain stitch. [TAST 115] I used ribbon for the whipping and stitched onto hand made paper. Join in at Pintangle.

No 2  Spoon Challenge - Mountain

SC - Cactus

Spoonflower have launched a challenge - to draw everyday for a month. They will send you a prompt each day. Because of time differences this is yesterday's prompt which I did last night and to be honest it's not one of my favourites.

Lace Hearts

I've been invited to two weddings in September so I've made a heart for each couple.

Different laces on a cotton silk background with hand embroidered lettering and a loop for hanging.

Embroidered Bird

I've enhanced a bird I painted a few weeks ago with hand embroidery, I used running stitch with different coloured threads.

Below is the bird without stitching. I think I used a stamp for the general outline then filled in the rest with a brush. Brusho and Manutex.

Wool Patchwork - Part 3

Detached chain stitch, fly stitch

French knots, straight stitch, fly stitch, chevron stitch

All together

New Fabric Swatches - Part 2

First, the floral designs

kitchen utensils

terrarium and coordinating background pattern

animals and birds

the rhino has an ammonite patterned skin

games 

 a local building called Sage was the inspiration behind this one

this one started out as a textured page in my sketchbook

All the above 8" swatches are printed on basic combed cotton.

My Spoonflower collections

New Fabric Swatches

First of all I thought I would tell you that my website linsart will be closing down in a few days so if you wanted to take a look before it goes, now is your chance. 

I will be keeping my blogs, flickr, pinterest etc

My new swatches have arrived from Spoonflower.

I created this design on my tablet.

The following two are older designs and they are both border prints.

first, the swatch. I used fabric to create this design which was screen printed

and this is what the full design looks like

another swatch

and the full design

The fabrics are available to purchase from Spoonflower

More Wool Patchwork

Stitches include buttonhole wheels, buttonhole stitch with French knots, detached chain stitches with French knots, stitched on vintage fabrics.

On the Pintangle site, Sharon has a tutorial on how to work decorative crazy quilt seams.

Herringbone Variations

 The herringbone stitch is the pale purple thread together with single fly stitches in yellow and red.

The row across is another form of herringbone stitch - twisted lattice band. This is made up of double herringbone stitch which has been laced. I used four colours here, pale purple, yellow threaded with orange and red, although normally just two colours are used. [I should have taken a close up] This stitch is number 121 of Take a Stitch Tuesday. The fabrics are remnants of vintage wool and cord. This is a picture of my mother wearing a coat made from the purple and black fabric. I'm not sure of the date of the photo but she is 86 now and I can remember her wearing the coat when I was young.