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.

Update of everything

Spring flowers from a friend - we had an eight-friends afternoon party

with coffee, tea, cake, sparkling wine and baked toasts 

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Sample of the Embroidery School - with buttonholed loops and wrapped

threads, bullion knots and the never missing French knots

and this - embellished lace, gimp with bulllion knots, a square of 16 small

octagons, bumpy things and Suffolk puffs. Moreover a gimp snake.

The cross stich letters are from a previous project. 

And then in Frande ....

Much rain in two days and the meadows became lakes

A visitor in the "garden" - I want to be friends with her

but she is shy

and a pouch for battery chargers for our travels

from house to house.

No more uglgy plastic bags 

A wonder how I could find fabrics being far from my stashes - 

and not bad ones at all. I like it and DH will be happy using it.

After a long time ....

... posting again. 

I am taking a class with Karen Ruane "Embroidery School". Here is the link to her

very inspiring site: http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/

We are stitching by hand but also by machine - FME - free machine embroidery.

I always liked to make holes and then surround them by buttonhole stitches.

French knots never fail to be applied - they are so decorative.

We can also play with paper strips - also fixed by FME

and overlayed with homemade lace

Fabric is a great theme, too. Hand sewn seams.

Embellishment with bullion knots and beads. 

Appliqued octagons - the English paper piecing comes in handy.

I surrounded them with rope stitch. If you would like to know how to

make rope stitch - here is the link to SharonB's stitch dictionary:

http://pintangle.com/2014/04/29/take-a-stitch-tuesday-110-and-111-rope-stitch-

and-zig-zag-coral-stitch/

It is 1" in diameter

More embellishment - a fabric buttonhole and as a gag a little

square piece of lace on the point - from a secondhand shop in France.

A hexagon filled with silk with some beads and next to it

a little pocket - it is open on top

I embellished it later with bulllion and French knots.

You can find all those stitches in SharonB's stitch dictionary.

These silvery beads are called "smooth purl" - they come as a long string

and you cut them as short or long as you wish. Normally used for gold work.

I ordered them at 

http://www.sarahhomfray.com/shop/search.php?q=smooth+purl 

(absolutely no affiliation).

This time it is the chain stitch which is framing the hexagon. 

I use fil à broder no. 16

A buttonholed loop which of course is never intended to 

be pulled over the square pearl-of-mother button

The embroidery school will still be running for 8 weeks - so there is

more to come.