Machine Embroidery Book[3], Boats and Mermaids

More pages from the C&G machine embroidery book.

Mermaid doodles from an old sketchbook

I started a sketchbook earlier this year all to do with a theme of boats, these are the first pages. The sea was created using a handmade stamp.

Sewing - TAW

Take a Word challenge - Sewing

I've used a page from a vintage book, parts of which have been rearranged. The sewing machine is from Graphics Fairy. The hand embroidery is my own from various projects.

Click to enlarge - it is interesting to read what people used to do in the 'olden' days.

Machine Embroidery Book[2] and IF[Stripes]

Above - my entry for the Illustration Friday challenge - stripes

Below - more images of the C&G Machine Embroidery Book

The embroideries below were stitched on hot water soluble fabric

Machine Embroidery Book and Doodles

Two pages I missed from Sketchbook 9. The page above is a shape challenge using the metal cutters and the one below I did for a sketchbook challenge called 'pathways' - except I didn't post it.

More C&G work, this time a machine embroidery book, experiments of different stitching techniques. I used to have a machine that did small embroidered motifs like the flowers on the front of this fabric book. I don't have that machine any more, as I broke it by sewing through lots of painted collaged papers which were very stiff and they weren't dry enough. I think the glue stuck to the needle which made it hard work for the machine and eventually it wore the motor out. I still sew collaged papers but I am more careful.

there are more pages which I will post another day

Vintage Collage/Memories and End of Sketchbook 9

The Three Muses challenge is Vintage Collage/Memories and I have to confess the two above that I am showing are old ones but I do still like to look at them. They are actually part of an altered book, a vintage sewing book, which had some informative and very amusing pages in it. The face in the top collage is my grandma who died in 1993 and the girl in the lower collage is my big sister as a tot in the fifties so they do bring back memories.

Below are the last pages of sketchbook 9

Shapes and Pleats

Two more shape challenge pieces  - you can see what I used at the bottom of each page. They are very similar shapes except the bottom one is longer. I prefer the tree doodle.

I'm also posting pictures of another C&G sample - different kinds of pleating with calico fabric. My sister wants me to make it into a cushion for her.

Skeleton Dance and Time

Still messing with skeletons.....

Below is my entry for Take a Word challenge  - time

My own photos with flower clock drawings. The song is an old one by the Bryds ['Turn, turn, turn' which was  from the Bible -Ecclisiates 3:1] although I remember the version by the Seekers more, but since doing it I keep thinking of the Freddie Mercury song 'Time waits for nobody'.

Skeletons on Holiday

Been having a bit of fun with some plastic skeletons and fluffy toys, but I'm afraid my photography is not that good today. 

Two Doodle

I used a plastic shape stencil for the doodle below and promarker pens on both

IF-Scary, more Weird Creatures, Patchwork

The word is 'scary' for the Illustration Friday challenge

pen drawings, digital background, digital collage

Another sample from C&G work, this time patchwork

And some more weird animals, elefishsquid or eleoct?

Flower Doodles and Insertion Stitch Sample

A couple of flower doodles and a sampler of insertion stitches from the C&G course. I don't know why it is the shape it is?