Future fabric book

A class with Karen Ruane - Embroidery School - which started in January 2017

I am preparing to bind the six pages together. with the cover

Above the front cover

and below the backside - all sewn by hand -

embroidered and beaded - lace made by machine

painted paper fixed with French knots

A collage with paper and fabric strips, lace, hand and machine embroidery 

embellished with my favorite stitches, French knots

Machine-sewn grid over a strip of fabric,

buttonhole stitches around cut-out lace flowers

Various embellishments with silk fabric, edge of a hanky, cutwork and

lace flower (clockwise)

Bumpy bits, gimp cord, scattered octagons, buttonholed machine sewn lace,

bullion knots, embellished grid of octagons

Cross stitched letter from an earlier project, padded scrim embellishment, gimp cords

cutwork, toggles - and all this on a piece of the baptism dress of DD (50 years ago)

Top right: little pocket, hexagon cutworks, beading

Now I will invent some binding of all this.

Making a collage from scraps

I am not very happy with it - so I am showing now just part of it

I am adding bit and again cutting off scraps which I don't like

anymore. 

But more in another post.

Originally it was a little stitched picture which I made in Sharon Boggons class

"Studio Journal" several years ago. I like to use things again and change them.

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The flamingo fabric was too strong in colour 

so it was cut into pieces - and like that the flamingo enjoys

the water, the lake and the pond

It is this motiv of Vincent Van Gogh which I used also for another embroidery

(below). I liked the swirls of the wind and suns - or are they stars 

and possibly a moon in the dark sky?

I used many stitches from Sharon's "Take a Stitch Tuesday" - which is still running

http://pintangle.com/2017/05/02/14960/