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Printed and stitched papers L-R blue and black handmade papers printed wirh a new block i made, Based on the drawings of a daisy in Chapter 1. The circles are also hand-made papers, this papers would be too thin to use an their own so I plan to stitch them together. The rectangle, square and triangle being Khadi papers.
Below shows the reverse side of the Kadi apers |
The rectangle was printed with overlapping daisies, using the same red on both sides to try to coordinate them, a with the stitching, but the blue seems to show far more as the piece was cut and curled.
The square wa stitched with a leaf pattern and a mustard coloured thread. The stitches on the leaf tended to pile up at times but I thing this added texrure. It was cut and curled, some pieces are reversed to make loops. They were held in place with double sided tape. I like the yellow ochre and pale blues and would use this combination again.
Photographing through the shape gave overlapping circles which might make a design based on that idea.
The triangle. I mixed blue and white on the pallette before painting it onto the block so it produced a variety of colours, sometimes on each print which is more obvious on the second photo.
The black and blue hand-made papers were stitched together using a variagated cotton thread and a satin stitch pattern to emphasise the colours. It was cut and the strips looped back on themselves.
in close-up
The circles of hand-made paper, stitched together using a circular stitching gadget on the machine and a waterlily pattern. Pink, lilac, purple and silver threads were used. The shape was cut and the pieces curled in and out to make "petals" (idea for Chapter 10?)
Layers of Paper
Black and white Khadi papers stitched together with a feather stitch. The stitch length and width was altered for each row of contrasting thread. It looked rather dull so I added some red which seemed to work well.
Using Acrylic Wax.
A diamond shape, printed green on one side and deep pink on the other before being painted with Acrylic wax and stitched with pale and deep pink. The cuts were made at random agross the piece so the loops were less regular.
I photographed it from narrow and wide ends for interesting shapes.
Blue Khadi paper printed with deep yellow sun flowers on one side and yelllow daisies with white cenrtres on the other, then Acrylic wax. it was stitched with a sunburst pattern, then cut and curled.
Thinner papers.
Section of a serviette backed with a paper from a scrapbooking selection and stitched with a loop pattern using beige,sage and deep green.
Reverse side which would make a useful background.
I stitched tucks on the sample and wanted to cut and curl sections but the backing paper was quite spongey and this didn't work well.
Sections cut from the corners of a Christmas serviette and used to make an all-over pattern.
The red free machined outlines showed up will on the black tissue backing but the stitching varied ( blunt needle) and made loops on the tissue side but I quite like the effect.
I tried to add depth to this print but the colouirs got lost it the busy design. The stitched showed better on the yellow tissue backing and I like the effect.
The sample was rolled up, then cut and curled.
Wiremesh.
A square, heated with a hest gun but this doesn't show well. I used a variagated thread and a star pattern stitched at random over the piece, the cut and shaped it.
Stitched in triangles using a satin pattern and variagated cotton thead, then outlined with cable stitch in toning colours.
I really like the delicate look of this
I really like the sheer effect of the stitched Wiremesh
Layers of fabric.
Pinks lilacs and purples on one side and red, orange and golden yellow on the other. Stitched in toning colours and a variety of stitches before cutting and curling. The possibilities for shapes seemed endless.
This shot reminded me of seaweed.
