In between other things, I'm slowly moving on with the samples from the SpringBoard Project we did at In The Stitch Zone in the autumn. I've made up six of the samples into book pages with softly frayed edges. From left to right: Fray, Ruche and Wrap.
And the other sides are, from left to right: Layer, Fold and Knot.
My plan was to put them into this vintage binder.
But the spring on the spine is so strong that it squeezed the page edges tight and didn't allow any ease for the bulkiness of the embroidery. The three completed pages so far made the covers fan right out and it looked wrong. Never mind; I'm sure it will come in for something at some point and I have a range of options for how to bind the pages as they are.
One of the unfinished samples is for the prompt Cut. I used a piece of batik fabric I made in a workshop with a pattern of leaves and started to cut out areas of the negative space with the idea of filling the gaps with abstract needle weaving. I worked the first hole on a hoop, but them realised that the size of the fabric piece was going to make it difficult to add further holes, so I stitched it onto a piece of pale green silk to stabilise it. This made working the second hole easier, and I think the warp threads are tauter, although as the batik fabric is only attached to the silk at the edges, it does make starting and finishing off threads a bit tricky.
I like the way it's coming together and am wondering how much more I can manage to cut away and still keep the integrity of the fabric.
Lastly, I've added some stitching and beading to the sample print I took from my traditional lino block that I created for our SEATA workshop in March with Hannah Turlington.
I decided to crop it as the floral pattern encroaching into the block didn't really work for me, but some back stitching and beading later, I had a birthday card.
There's nothing like doodling with stitch on an oddment of printing.
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