Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Fabric endings and beginnings

 In the spirit of playful exploring and testing, I also played with fabric bits and pieces.  I finished my needle case last weekend and enjoyed it so much I wanted to see if I could continue some way along this path. 

Front


Back - am yet to iron out the fabric marker you can see!


Inside open 


Outside open 


And so I went into my fabric stash and rummaged around to see if I could find some complementary bits and pieces.

Some of my fun corncob printed fabrics became key players. Clearly the tones were all my favourites ones...



And I trimmed and I fiddled and tried this and that. And for now, I have four pinned up possibilities. 


If I could bottle that feeling of time - the time spent far away in my head as all I had to think about was holding the fabric, trimming the fabric, fraying some, turning the pieces this way and that until a pleasing sense of something began to appear.  What a marvellous thing making can be.

As I walked back from the studio on Saturday having popped in to have a coffee with B, these kangaroo paw flowers against EA's rusty front fence were too gorgeous not to photograph and share.


6 comments:

  1. kangaroo paws are aptly named ... and I love the look of your corncob compositions ... it should be equally good fun to pick out threads to bring them all together

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    1. Aren't they the best name-plant combo? I am beginning to look for threads that will unite th eworks; yet enable them to remain their individuality- fun!

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  2. (((Fiona))) your needle book is a beauty and love the new beginnings, there is such comfort in stitch on so many levels!

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    1. I do love a needle book Mo and it would be lovely to understand more about the comfort that emanates from stitch. I have my own experiences; yet like writing by hand I am sure there is research etc that would support and investigate my own small understandings. Go well.

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  3. love this needle book with its subtle colours !

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    1. Its lovely isn't it?!?! I just need to iron out those pens marks - laugh.

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