Canvas Art

This is our latest production! We spent two days together working on these 'Shabby Chic Style' canvas art pictures which have handy hooks on the bottom and that makes them ideal for hanging all those troublesome household items that end up just lying about the place or getting lost.

 Next stage of Needle Case

 Stitching is done and the edges are done and the twisted glitter cords have been added now. I have redone the edging today as I was not happy with the look !
Happy with it now.

This shows the inside finished with a pocket with a KAM Snap

fitted ( new toy from my daughter, used for the first time brilliant gadet, thanks Kayella) to hold my embroidery scissors to which I added a sweet pair of PINK handled nice sharp scissors and a little pair on the out side of the pocket to reminded me what the pocket it for and not stuff it full of other bits !

Pages 8 of these for all my needles, gosh I am going to be so organized and on the right are 4 small pockets for my bits and bobs will also take packets of needles as well, can you see the needle stitched above the pockets?

well I have really enjoyed making this and designing as I go along is such fun.

New Year New Start

Its time to start again for the New Year.

I needed to create something !

This is the start of a piece of work inspired by my friend Angie Hughes who is just amazing. As my needle case is slowly falling apart and no where near big enough, it is my plan to create a holder for them plus extra space to tuck all my other bits and bobs that end up inside my needle case, so I have started out with velvet fabric and bondaweb and my collection of foils and sweetie wrappers! and had fun.

Today I shall be starting the machine embroidery which is the exciting part.

Watch this space for progress.

  Maria

Begin Again!

Maria and I are ready to begin our fun days stitching together again. We had to call a halt for the second part of last year due to the fact that I nursed my husband, unsuccessfully, through cancer. Sadly he passed away in October; it was a short and spirited fight but the disease was too strong for him to win.

We have many plans for this year, so watch this space, and are also looking forward to workshop holidays together.

I have posted photographs of our previous projects which are still to be finished, based on mixed media ideas by Beryl Taylor.

MARIA'S PIECE

GILLI'S WORK

This work is fabric based and has tissue and torn paper additions covered with pva. We have added printed cottons and a variety of items such as dried leaves, torn pages from old books, cotton and sheers stencilled with moulding paste and painted pelmet vilene. There has been some machine embroidery added but still have a way to go.

Introductions and Revise, Refresh, Revive Your Embroidery!

Let's introduce ourselves: Gilli in Somerset and Maria in Dorset, UK - two friends who love to Stitch Together!!
We often have play days together, meet at the Embroiderers' Guild branch in Bradford Abbas, West Country Embroiderers in Sherborne and the Embellishing Group in Bishops Caundle. 

Recently we have set up a group on Facebook which we have called Revise, Refresh, Revive and our aim is to work through certain Chapters of books we both own which have been sitting on our bookshelves for too long unused.  

We work through these projects independently at home and it's amazing 'how different the same' can be.

Our first post on our blog shows photos of our work as we revise, refresh and revive our embroidery and textile art. Our first chosen book is the Machine Embroidery Workbook by Val Campbell-Harding and Maggie Grey and we have taken the very simple project in Chapter Two, which calls for bonding of shapes to a background and applying the same to the background with machine straight stitch in the first instance and using the 'utility' stitches on the machine for the second example. This very basic idea has produced some interesting pieces of work and has proved to us the importance of 'reviewing' some of the older books we possess.