10th March...

...day eight!...

...This is what I was doing on Saturday... Somehow I think you can guess what I was doing!

... how come you never see the thread going right across the photo when you are taking it!! Then you forget to turn the photo before you upload it!!...mutter, mutter...

... a little bit of shaded dying....

...and some graduated dyeing...

...and some space dyeing. How about the silk velvet, don't you just love it!

Actually I don't think the photos really do the colours justice.

This was a class run by my branch of the Embroiderers' Guild.

A big thank you to Dorothy who took the class, it was a great day, we learnt a lot and all had a great time. Thanks!

Moira

...mmm... now what am I going to do with all this lovely fabric?!*:-)

9th March...

...this is day seven, already lagging behind. Anyway here is a continuation from the last post!
As you can see I was playing around with some Lutrador. My sister brought it over from Australia with her last year and we had a little play with it I know that I can get it here but it was fun. I never got round to writing up the notes so hope I get this right. The photo above shows the Lutrador bonded onto two pieces of felt and one piece of calico, some free machining and a blast of hot air!
We continued with the samples by trying out the soldering iron as well. I liked the way you can draw with it and get more defined holes and patterns.

The black and red on the left is one of my Indian wood printing blocks (still with the red paint on it!) this was printed onto the yellow felt before the Lutrador was bonded on. We added some free machining echoing the wood block design.

This was the result once it was blasted with the hot air tool along with the photo from my last post (it had some cable free machining as well) .

I suppose you could go on to add some hand stitching and beading but I think I'll just keep it as a sample. I may try and melt it again to reveal more of the red stamping below.

That's it for now.

Byee!

6th March...

...sorry folks I'm having difficulty uploading photos at the moment so I'll leave this one, the only one I've managed to upload. I'll give out the info about it tomorrow along with the rest of the photos... I hope!

Before I go a big thank you for yesterday's comments I was thinking that maybe this hadn't been a good idea trying to post as often but it's nice to know that people appreciate it even if it is only a few images. Thanks again.

Moira

5th March...

Day five... a vintage day!

... I love old mother of pearl buttons and vintage linen.

Byee!

4th March...

day four. Oh I'm enjoying this. Make the most of it though because I might not make it all the way!

a couple of vintage buttons.

I might add a few different photos here and there to pad things out i.e. images from my button collection or maybe some of my vintage embroidered cloths.

Byee!

3rd March...

...day three... these are probably easier to guess.

...some embellished sheers and machine embroidery using my favourite, variegated thread.

...some muslin and wool tops lurking in here...

...some trashed eyelash yarn, at least that's what I call it once the embellisher has had a go at it. The centre is a fine silk.

...a bit of the old glitz!... sequins and beads...

...obviously a bit more carried away with the machine embroidery on this one.

Oh well, that's it for now

Byee.

See you tomorrow!

2nd March...

...day two... I've decided to make this a month of little tasters with a reveal at the end of the month... or at least that's what I'll try to do!

...for the shop...

... caught in the light...

That's it...can you guess what it is yet?!!!

Byeee.

Moira