It
is a long time since my last post but I have good reason for that. As I
mentioned in my last post, we have been doing major refurbishment of
our home. It just keeps snowballing and we have added many more things
to do. This has meant that we are still not finished yet - hopefully
sometime in January.
I have still been managing some textile work and can post some of it today.
On
the underside of the Arc de triumph are wonderful carved squares. They
look similar to those on the underside of a Roman ruin arch in Rome.
I used one of these squares -
for the next few pieces.
I
loaded the image into Photoshop and played with the colours until I had
one that I liked. This was printed onto teeshirt printer paper for
black/dark fabrics. It was ironed onto pelmet vilene and then I used a
fine line black pen to outline some of the detail. I created a pocket
book -
I added some gold machine stitching and some gold braid.
On the inside I used the stamp I made of this square design.
and I made some bag tags -
I
always use the text of the places of my projects and I have continued
to do this using the text of Paris. It was distorted and made into a
motif. It is still obvious that it still says Paris. This motif was
then digitised in my machine software and stitched out onto black felt.
I
make lots of serendipity paper when using up paint on my brushes and
stamps. It is better than washing it down the sink. I use lots of
different kinds of paper including hand-made paper. I made this
particular paper quite a long time ago. It was time to use it. I
decided to use it for the front cover of a book.
This
is a hard back book and I stitched the front to the spine with a left
and right blanket stitch. The machined motif was stuck onto the front.
One
incredible place I visited was Sainte Chapelle which is on the island
in the middle of the Seine. the same place as Notre Dame. The windows
of this church are spectacular. I had to hand hold the camera but with
its brilliant iso facility I was able to get pretty good images. I used
one of the windows as the basis for a long hanging. I used sheer
fabrics sandwiched between tulle. I free machined all the black lines
of the leaded window.
It is well over a metre long and although there is a definite best side, it is presentable on the back too.
That is it for this post. I am attempting to keep them shorter than I usually do.
Cheers for now
