random posting

having cervical problems with the well known vertigo and nausea symptoms. can't do much computer work, actually i'm scared to sit at it because as soon as i do  the room starts spinning.  waiting for the osteopath's appointment.

funnily, stitching is fine, no dizziness or discomfort when i bend the neck down. therefore, not being one who's comfortable lying around , i'm working this series on annotations weavers use to represent their world.

i'm stitching on woven fabric, gifted  mill samples, and  lutradur printed with weave structures  which are stitched  with the usual conventions such as dots, crosses, slashes etc.

i'm having fun , as long as i don't have to stand up suddenly. then the room starts swirling around.
coincidentally i came across this .
great ideas for using the vinatge embroidery charts i published this week.

have a good weekend. and those suffering from cabin fever too.

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embroidered buttons

 maybe. you could use the motifs in placemats, napkins or clothes. or use your creativity.
download the chart here



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a woman with a past

i once had a job where i had to power dress, paraphrasing isak dinesen's first line in out of africa.

the job was no big power, but the places i had to go were. not one who would conform to the regular pinstripe business suit, i'd sew my clothes  especially tops and mostly in silks . and thus i ended with a bagfull of lovely scraps.

i wanted to do something with the only self imposed restriction that  only the silk scraps were to be used. at that time i did not know much about stitching, stabilisers, fusibles, crazy quilts or that world in particular. and it shows. i just happily patched the scraps together in a very spontaneous way.

 at that time i was starting on shibori and had been seriously dyeing for some years, so i  could confidently dye scraps to shift the colors and do some shibori on some to liven up the pieces. there was a vague idea to make a kimono with the pieced fabric, so i was working on two panels . but the kimono  never happened.

and the pieced panels were put to rest. and laid dormant in a bag in the studio until this weekend when they resurfaced. there you have it, in all its naiveté, with fabric scraps puffing and bulging  out and even some scraps still attached with pins. that in particular was addressed immediately  if i was going to work on the panels without bloodshed. i removed the pins and   pieced  the scraps using wunderunder. 

boy! have i learned over the years!

this is going to be a yearlong project. but i figured if it has waited so long for its moment to come, it can wait a little longer to be finished. i am using zigzag stitching to attach the fabrics to the muslin background, changing colors frequently to emphasize or minimise an area. i have to think about whether to do some hand stitching or not. the stitches to be used, the weight of the stitching thread, whether it will be boro-like or crazy quilt-like without buttons and bows.i'm not a quilter and this is not going to be a quilt. it's more of an exercise in frugality, or so i'd like to think.

 

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