Silk paper and stitch .

Debby has continued to teach her stitch group using Zoom to connect with them.They had loved doing wet felting so she had introduced them to silk paper making . Here she has used a silk hankie adding in extra silk fibres to make a sheet of luscious silk paper.

She also showed how to use the gummy strips which still retain the glue ,needing only to be spritzed with water and ironed to create silk paper.These can be coloured with dye or Inktense or left their natural colour .

In these  examples Debby has begun to add hand stitch.Her group are so lucky to have such a talented teacher .

 

Luggage tags.

Jenn has continued to create tags for the '52 Tags ' instagram challenge . Some come quite easily and others are a bit of a struggle to complete .She hopes to keep going.These are the latest kisses ,a bevy of buttons ,hexies ,bullion stitch and french knots ,bits and pieces.

On her mostly daily walks she tries to collect something natural to bring home to draw.

These quick drawings have given lots of pleasure over the weeks and are building into a collection of ideas.Taking inspiration from things collected  she has been hand stitching  small tag size pieces .

The backgrounds are pieced from  hand dyed silk sari ribbon, organza,lace and silks.

A background she created some months ago is now being picked up and worked into with straight stitches.She has an idea to eventually use the drawings to create gum arabic prints on the background

before adding stitch.Time will tell but then we seem to have a lot of it just now.

 

More prints on canvas.

As mentioned in the last post Viv said there was more to come and she has not disappointed .These three photos record her inspiration ,drawing and eventual stitched piece ,once again limiting herself to straight stitch.This piece was inspired by the Wiltshire landscape.

Meanwhile Sally has been having a go .This time inspired by the flooded Somerset levels 

using a very atmospheric photograph and stitching with free machine embroidery.It really is a versatile medium.