New Class with Karen Embroiderer's ledger

I have started a new class on line with Karen Ruane. It is called " Embroiderer's Ledger.

I have made a new book for this class. The cover was made after a recent workshop with Annette Hinde.

The cover is made of fabric, paper, lace & embroidery. Then the whole thing is painted in Gesso & then the colours added. Once the whole thing was dry & the gel medium over the whole thing. I then added some mother of pearl flower beads & some diamonties.

This is the inside of the cover. I have added a pocket to the inside cover so that I could keep all the bits & bobs for the class safe & together.

I have used a pamphlet stitch to bind all the signatures into this book. The papers used are a combination of water colour paper & cartridge paper.

This is day one of the class with Karen. Colour matching. I have used a piece of William Morris wrapping paper for my image of inspiration. Then I have used water colours & water colour pencils for the swatches. The threads are Au Ver A Soie silk threads. I have found this lesson very good, & will look in the future to using this piece in an embroidery of my own.
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Elizabeth xxx

Vintage sewing book

This is the book that I have been making. And the book that the sewing tag was made for.  Above is the cover of the book.

Pages 1 & 2. The doily is one that my mum gave me & the studs are some that my friend Isabell gave me. Page 2 has an embroidery that I did for module one of my city & guilds home work.

Pages 3&4. The little book in the centre of page 4 is  a book that is filled with pictures of every size needle there is. So now if I have needles in a pin cushion & I am not sure of the size. I can just pull out this book & place the needle on the pages & see which one it is.

There are still many pages to be filled in. And I will have fun collecting all the bits & bobs for them.
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Elizabeth xx

Im Back ☺☺

Sorry I have been away for so long. I have been unwell & extremely busy. But here I am and getting back into the swing of things. Parden the pun :-) I will start this post with a tag for the tag tuesday challenge.

When I saw the challenge for doing a tag themed on sewing, my mind went crazy (not that it has ever not been crazy:-) ) I have been making a fabric book, that I have been filling with antique sewing ephemra for some time now, & when asked to do the tag, I had just what I needed. This tag will go inside my Vintage sewing journal.

I have been trying to get through all of my UFO's these past few weeks. This needle case that I started way back in 2005/06 sometime, is now finally finished. YAAAAAAAA!

Now I am embroidering lots of flowers onto some water soluble fabric, ready for another Tag & also for another UFO that I started quite some time ago as well. This one was an online course that I did through the HEN web site. Called " The Stitches Embroidered Garden Journal" with Victoria Crowden Payne from Freedom of stitches.

The piece has sat in my room, waiting for inspiration & me to finish it. Now I am. I have been inspired to finish this piece, by another project that I have been working on.

I am working with a few friends through a book called Experimental textiles by Kim Thittichai. Last week we did the journey painting. Mine is 6 meters long by 29cm high. Anyway, as I started painting things where not looking so good. Then as I progressed it all started to look better. I have called the piece "My Journey To Mt Warning". From this piece the ispiration came to finish my Stitches embroidered Garden Piece.

I will post more on these two pieces later. Till then
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Elizabeth xxx

Added items to my Etsy store

I have just added some paper flower stickers that I make to my Etsy store. Do pop over & take a look. They are great for scrapbooking, card making & all other kinds of Mixed media. They can also be used on embroideries if you so choose.

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Elizabeth xx

My Bird theme Tag Tuesday

Here is my birdie tag for Tuesday the 6th of March. I know! its late ☺☺I struggled with this one. There where too many ideas & I could not settle on just one of them. But in the end I went with this. I may finish the others one day. I have used a combination of embroidery papercraft & beading. Well, there is only one bead☺This Tuesdays theme is Mad March- Hares & Rabbits, so keep watching this space.

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Elizabeth xx

Tag Tuesday "BOOKS"

Here is my tag for the TAG TUESDAY, theme "Books".

I have made my tags into a book. On the back of each tag I have left it blank, so that I can add photos to them. The lined fronts will be where I journal about the photos added. As the saying on the front says. This will be somewhere to keep a record of my nature journies. I have used all stampin up products to make this tag.

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Elizabeth xx

Poetry Tag Tuesday

I have made a replica of a piece that I did for the poetry in stitches challenge that I did back in 2008 if my memory serves me correctly.

The backing fabric is made from some felted knitting that I made, then I have embroidered on the Dandelion flower & seed head. The leaves are both paper & stumpwork embroidered. This tag will become the book mark for the poetry in stitches book.

The poem that I choose was called "Dandelion-Nature's Sundial"

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Elizabeth xx