Okay how
many of you when you read that thought of body piercing and thought no way, not
Rose!?
Ha ha,
you’re right I’m not doing body piercing no way, no how but I am piercing
paper. And I really enjoy it even though I’m not really, really good at it yet
like my instructor is. Yes I’m taking another online class (well it really
isn’t a class, no particular assignments, we’re just flies on the wall watching
how she works). The she? Well it’s Karen Ruane of Contemporary Embroidery. I’ve taken a couple of
other classes from her and I love her work and her way of teaching.
She does a
lot of embroidery and paper piercing among other things and gives us plenty of
eye candy almost on a daily basis. If you visit her blog you’ll see what I
mean.
So here’s
my projects so far:
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| Geometry Flash Card Triangle |
- I’ve been thinking about seeds and seed pods a lot
lately. I’m not sure if it is the season or what but it did start when I
was making the geometry flash card with triangles. It just seemed like the
one with the seed stitch had all these little seeds trying to escape the
triangle only to fall back down because of the enclosure.
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| Seed Pod Rough Sketch |
So
I went on a search for seeds being released from their pods and one thing led
to another. I wound up with a sketch of sorts.
I started transferring it to my
acrylic paper with needle piercing and went a little overboard. Not exactly
thinking ahead here. I did manage to do some cutout sections for which I
embroidered some white cloth with white thread. The embroidery has been
attached and some French knots added to the paper. There’s more work to be done
on this piece but I find that I need to let it rest and then when I start again
I am happier with what has been done.
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| Seed Pod Progress |
- Watching Karen work gave me another idea for
working with a fashion illustration I did when I was in college. I’m
trying to find the book source for the original dress but I know I took it
and scaled it down a few times and then traced the sketches as dresses
dancing down a line and then tried to color them and give them pattern and
texture.
I’ve always wanted to do something with this illustration and now I am inspired to work with it on paper as a needle pierced piece. At the same time I remembered my first dress I ever made (I was 10 years old), I thought that would be great fabric to photograph and then add as inserts into the paper design. Oh the little red thing laying in the photo I'll tell you about that later in my tips and tricks!
Dress Illustration
One final project for now is a scribble of mine
that I have pierced into paper and stitched with white thread. I’ve done
the cutout and now need to decide on how to back them. I have two ideas.
One came from just accidentally laying the cutout on top of my notebook
which gave me an idea for some type of stained glass effect. The other
again just happened when I laid the cutout over the top of my seed pod
sketch. Now to decide.
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| Overlay of notebook |
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| Overlay of seed pod sketch |
I have a
lot more work to do including a special order for a button bracelet and quilt
squares that need to be done soon so I’d better get busy.
Be back
later!
Happy
stitching or piercing!
Rose
2 comments:
i'm in Texas as well, Rose, but quite a distance away. i'm in Austin. expecting cold weather tomorrow. you already know i love your work.
Hey Deanna I thought you were here in Texas. My daughter loved Austin, she visited there a few months ago with a couple of her friends. Cold weather is on it's way, I still haven't gotten used to Texas up and down weather. As far as work you know I love yours too!
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