LinsArt

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Collage - Vintage Adverts

Some of these old flyers are quite amusing.... height increased for 5/-.... I could do with that

Friday, 10 July 2015

Collages - Shoes and Crazy Whist

I was given a pack of replica vintage papers which I decided to use in collages

Thursday, 9 July 2015

WIP - Squares on Brown and Whitework Peacock

One of the items I started recently is the above. I had some upholstery samples lying about waiting to be put to good use. I'm hand stitching them on with running stitch. I may put fancy stitches on after....not sure yet.

I've also had this piece of linen in my stash for years so I decided to do some white stitching on it. I decided to use a page from lovely colouring book [Secret Garden by Johanna Basford] a gift from a friend for my birthday. I printed it on Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy and stuck it to the fabric.

Since starting it I have had a few problems:

my stitching is not very neat nowadays

I had to print the pattern on more than one page [I enlarged too] and I am finding the edges keep lifting especially where they meet

the needle keeps getting sticky so I have to keep cleaning it with isopropyl [rubbing alcohol]

I won't see what it looks like until I've finished it and rinsed the solvy off

keep changing my mind on which stitch to use

It will take a long time to stitch!

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Fashion for Ladies - 1920's

Collage, painted background.

The two ladies dresses on the right were made from used envelopes.

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Fifty Shades of White

I used all kinds of fabrics to make this, lace, doyleys, fabric samples, old tablecloth, embroidery samples, handkerchief, vertical blind samples etc

They were all hand stitched [running stitch] to a white background fabric.

I think it looks better in real life but you can get a better look by clicking on the images.

I'm thinking of making a cushion cover with it unless I come up with another idea.

Monday, 6 July 2015

Experimental - Marbling and Stitched Paper

I stuck torn bits of painted papers onto lutradur [or evolon?], then free machine stitched a bird. I drew the bird on the back and stitched it on the back which didn't work too well - the white shows through. The other stitching ie the plant I stitched topside which worked better.

I had some wallpaper paste left over from decorating so I did a bit of marbling, both on paper and fabric. Click on photo for closer look. They looked great straight after marbling but most of the colour washed off when I rinsed them, so not a very successful session. Some of it was poor choice of paints I think.

Friday, 3 July 2015

Tablet Art

Drawings done on my Samsung tablet.

I used 'autodesk sketchbook pro' for the top one and charcoal in 'corel painter mobile' for the one below.

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Altered Photographs

Friday, 26 June 2015

Girls

Created on my Samsung Tablet, I used the Corel Painter App.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Table Runner and Place Mats

I've had these oriental style squares of fabric in a drawer for a few years so I thought I would put them to good use and make a table runner/coaster. After that I thought I should have made place mats to match but there weren't enough squares. [good planning eh?] I had another search and found some oriental style dress fabric from years back and decided to use that, it's the blue floral fabric. And that is why you see that fabric on the mats but not the runner.