How do you finish the edges of your textile? ATC's?I've been working on some for the EG meeting on Saturday and I just can't work out how to finish off the edges!
I will photograph them but its for a secret swap so can't show them till I've swapped!
Other thing thats stumped me was coming up with suitable ideas for that scale!Abstract definetly works better in this situation.
So, my question to you is:
How do you get your inspiration for you textile ATCs, and how do you make them? I can't see how to layer fabric ones to make them stiff or edge them or anything! HELP!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Latest Challenge
I've finally found some inspiration for my latest Textile Challenges piece.
The idea is that we all take the same theme, the three same basic ingredients, and then work our own piece from those details.
The theme for this challenge is Windows and/or Doors and the ingredients are; Paint, Fibres and recycled/found objects.
Thats our starting point.We can add to the ingredients but am a bit stumped as to where to start. I have my inspiration which is a photo of the nearby gatehouse of one of the nearby gatehouses of the York City Walls:
I just don't know where to go from here! Its getting very frustrating!
The idea is that we all take the same theme, the three same basic ingredients, and then work our own piece from those details.
The theme for this challenge is Windows and/or Doors and the ingredients are; Paint, Fibres and recycled/found objects.
Thats our starting point.We can add to the ingredients but am a bit stumped as to where to start. I have my inspiration which is a photo of the nearby gatehouse of one of the nearby gatehouses of the York City Walls:
I just don't know where to go from here! Its getting very frustrating!
Thankyou.
I just wanted to say thankyou to everyone who took the time to contact me in regards to my post about my Poppet.
Please let me assure you my reasons for wanting to lose weight are purely of my own making.
its all about reboosting my own self confidence and the fact it will be benifical to my health.
My self confidence seems to be busy somewhere else half the time and things ranging from my social life, to my appearance and even my art skills get focused on to the point of me being unable to see things objectivly any more. The poppet is an effort to remedy this! I've also found a picture of me I like and am putting it in my wallet.
This is it :
It was taken about 2 years ago now, before the sciatica left me bedridden for several months and made me gain more weight. If I can get back to that I will be content.
Please let me assure you my reasons for wanting to lose weight are purely of my own making.
its all about reboosting my own self confidence and the fact it will be benifical to my health.
My self confidence seems to be busy somewhere else half the time and things ranging from my social life, to my appearance and even my art skills get focused on to the point of me being unable to see things objectivly any more. The poppet is an effort to remedy this! I've also found a picture of me I like and am putting it in my wallet.
This is it :
It was taken about 2 years ago now, before the sciatica left me bedridden for several months and made me gain more weight. If I can get back to that I will be content.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
My little Poppet.
PLEASE NOTE: This post contains some of my personal religous views. I am a Pagan.
While looking at Dotee's blog (for she is the queen of the mini art doll!) I saw her tutorial on making the most adorable little art dolls.
While I plan to make some like hers, I suddenly had the idea to make myself one, a Poppet if you will.
A Poppet is a sort of spirit doll as well as being a term for a small child or doll.
In some parts of the UK is continues to still mean this though it has also been adopted to describe a doll used in magical practices - BUT this is catagorically NOT a voodoo doll.
They are used for healing and for luck, or are at least in the circles in which I am involved.The use of Poppets is an age old practice, the poppet itself is similar to a luck charm only much more powerful.
I've made myself a Poppet to aid me in my weight loss. I have an ongoing battle with my weight which makes me miserable much of the time. My beloved reminded me that he finds me beautiful whatever size I am but it makes areas of my life ranging from my confidence to my love life and exercise very difficult.
This poppet is to remind me of my purpose in losing weight.
I chose lovely but thin purple cotton fabric as it is a) my favorite colour and b) it represents Spirit, Progress, Success, and the Breaking of Bad Luck.
The shape is a basic doll shape and represents how I feel about my figure.
I did one of my beaded polymer clay faces as I wanted the serene quality it conveys and I am terrible at drawing/stitching faces!
This is one side of the poppet while still on the frame. In the central cartouche is the following:
The serene face. I need to come to deal with my weight and learn to be serene about it.
A heart to represent Love. This is rather important. This is what is behind all other things that this poppet represents and is what will hopefully drive me to succeed!
The spiral represents Rebirth - not literally, but losing weight and regaining fitness and the activeness in my life is a rebirth of a kind!
A symbol that represents losing weight.
The bottom symbol resembles sex. An odd thing to include I hear you wonder, but any of the larger ladies who read my blog will understand how weight can impact on your sex life!
This is the other side of the poppet while still on the frame. This represents the sort of figure I want to achieve. Basically I just want to achieve a healthy figure, not get particularly thin!I LOVE my curves...i just wish they were selected curves and not the running theme for my entire figure! It has the symbol for weight loss in the centre of it.
These two pictures show it made up into the completed poppet. I've done a beaded hanging loop (not visible), and stitched a dragonfly charm to the bottom - its become my sort of symbol these days! I also did a beaded trim around the seam.
The project was stitched in Rajmahal Art Threads in shades of purple. I couched the Raj threads to the surface using two shades of DMC. This was the first time I've done couching and I am rather pleased with the effect!
I also did couched beading for this project which is a good technique for items that aren't really going to be used that much.This is more of a visual object - Something for me to look at when I feel the urge to give up dieting!
While looking at Dotee's blog (for she is the queen of the mini art doll!) I saw her tutorial on making the most adorable little art dolls.
While I plan to make some like hers, I suddenly had the idea to make myself one, a Poppet if you will.
A Poppet is a sort of spirit doll as well as being a term for a small child or doll.
In some parts of the UK is continues to still mean this though it has also been adopted to describe a doll used in magical practices - BUT this is catagorically NOT a voodoo doll.
They are used for healing and for luck, or are at least in the circles in which I am involved.The use of Poppets is an age old practice, the poppet itself is similar to a luck charm only much more powerful.
I've made myself a Poppet to aid me in my weight loss. I have an ongoing battle with my weight which makes me miserable much of the time. My beloved reminded me that he finds me beautiful whatever size I am but it makes areas of my life ranging from my confidence to my love life and exercise very difficult.
This poppet is to remind me of my purpose in losing weight.
I chose lovely but thin purple cotton fabric as it is a) my favorite colour and b) it represents Spirit, Progress, Success, and the Breaking of Bad Luck.
The shape is a basic doll shape and represents how I feel about my figure.
I did one of my beaded polymer clay faces as I wanted the serene quality it conveys and I am terrible at drawing/stitching faces!
This is one side of the poppet while still on the frame. In the central cartouche is the following:The serene face. I need to come to deal with my weight and learn to be serene about it.
A heart to represent Love. This is rather important. This is what is behind all other things that this poppet represents and is what will hopefully drive me to succeed!
The spiral represents Rebirth - not literally, but losing weight and regaining fitness and the activeness in my life is a rebirth of a kind!
A symbol that represents losing weight.
The bottom symbol resembles sex. An odd thing to include I hear you wonder, but any of the larger ladies who read my blog will understand how weight can impact on your sex life!
This is the other side of the poppet while still on the frame. This represents the sort of figure I want to achieve. Basically I just want to achieve a healthy figure, not get particularly thin!I LOVE my curves...i just wish they were selected curves and not the running theme for my entire figure! It has the symbol for weight loss in the centre of it.
These two pictures show it made up into the completed poppet. I've done a beaded hanging loop (not visible), and stitched a dragonfly charm to the bottom - its become my sort of symbol these days! I also did a beaded trim around the seam.The project was stitched in Rajmahal Art Threads in shades of purple. I couched the Raj threads to the surface using two shades of DMC. This was the first time I've done couching and I am rather pleased with the effect!
I also did couched beading for this project which is a good technique for items that aren't really going to be used that much.This is more of a visual object - Something for me to look at when I feel the urge to give up dieting!
Friday, February 23, 2007
Look what I got in the post!
Mary B, I will bring the felt melt pieces I've done to EG next month!
I have flu :( I appear to have aliens hatching creatures in my sinuses and my nose resembles rudolphs...and joints i didn't know I have ache!
I finished the embrodiery on my bowl! The photo was taken without flash as you lost a lot of detail with the flash but the colours of the bowl are much brighter and the beads, for the most part are metallic.
Jessica in the states sent me a package of goodies! We'd had a chat a couple of months ago about cornbread - I'd had it when at a USAF friends house and hadn't had similar since then! - and on wednesday or thursday (I had a fever and they days were a bit muddled) this parcel turned up at my door, completly unexpectedly! Not only had she sent me a squishy she had sent me a whole host of cornbread mixes! I've made one so far and some spiced honey butter, which my beloved has been very happily sampling!
I also recieved this gorgeous ATC (My first for my collection!) in the ATC swap part of textilechallenges Felt Melt Challenge. Mine is almost ready to be posted...I haven't been well enough to get it organised....am very sorry!
I will hopefully, as soon as I am fully recovered, be able to do some more stitching, get some things posted and generally get back to something resembling normality - or as close as I ever get to normality!
Update
Arlee did something in a graphics program and sent me a colour adjusted picture which makes it easier for you to see things on the bowl!
I have flu :( I appear to have aliens hatching creatures in my sinuses and my nose resembles rudolphs...and joints i didn't know I have ache!
I finished the embrodiery on my bowl! The photo was taken without flash as you lost a lot of detail with the flash but the colours of the bowl are much brighter and the beads, for the most part are metallic.
Jessica in the states sent me a package of goodies! We'd had a chat a couple of months ago about cornbread - I'd had it when at a USAF friends house and hadn't had similar since then! - and on wednesday or thursday (I had a fever and they days were a bit muddled) this parcel turned up at my door, completly unexpectedly! Not only had she sent me a squishy she had sent me a whole host of cornbread mixes! I've made one so far and some spiced honey butter, which my beloved has been very happily sampling!
I also recieved this gorgeous ATC (My first for my collection!) in the ATC swap part of textilechallenges Felt Melt Challenge. Mine is almost ready to be posted...I haven't been well enough to get it organised....am very sorry!
I will hopefully, as soon as I am fully recovered, be able to do some more stitching, get some things posted and generally get back to something resembling normality - or as close as I ever get to normality!
Update
Arlee did something in a graphics program and sent me a colour adjusted picture which makes it easier for you to see things on the bowl!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Melting Felt!
About three weeks ago Carol invited me to join her textile challenges group. We get monthly challenges using textiles and we interpret it our own way. Some of the ladies have done amazing things - I've only got as far as the sample stage and am not sure where to go now....
This month we have been doing The Felt Melt. This is melting Kunin felt to which you have applied some sort of resist with a heat gun to make a lacy effect. Kunin is a type of acrylic felt. Am trying to find a local supplier at the moment as they only seem to sell wool felt around here!Carol helped me out by sending me some and here are my first attempts! I made mine very lacy.
This was using black felt with purple acrylic for the resist.
This piece is sky blue felt. The resist is PVA glue in an overlapping crosshatching sort of pattern.
This is my favourite piece. Green felt with swirly patterns, again using PVA glue as the resist.
This was using gold acrylic paint and PVA as the resist on black felt.
This little piece is ATC sized. I have a couple more pieces I've done but camera batteries have died again!
I need to make one of these into a ATC but really don't know what to do!
Any ideas as to what I can do with them?
This month we have been doing The Felt Melt. This is melting Kunin felt to which you have applied some sort of resist with a heat gun to make a lacy effect. Kunin is a type of acrylic felt. Am trying to find a local supplier at the moment as they only seem to sell wool felt around here!Carol helped me out by sending me some and here are my first attempts! I made mine very lacy.
This was using black felt with purple acrylic for the resist.
This piece is sky blue felt. The resist is PVA glue in an overlapping crosshatching sort of pattern.
This is my favourite piece. Green felt with swirly patterns, again using PVA glue as the resist.
This was using gold acrylic paint and PVA as the resist on black felt.
This little piece is ATC sized. I have a couple more pieces I've done but camera batteries have died again!I need to make one of these into a ATC but really don't know what to do!
Any ideas as to what I can do with them?
Brooches and Bowls.
Wouldn't you know it? I had the whole weekend planned including some serious blog posting, and what happens?! I end up spending the entire weekend feeling decidedly under the weather!
Anyway I mentioned in my last post about the felt bowl I made at my evening class. Well, here it is! Its made of merino wool tops, was formed over a ceramic bowl, felted and then saturated with PVA glue. Its stiff but flexible and holds it shape well. I've trimmed the edge so its not whispy any more and have started stitching on it.
This is looking into the bowl - the on show surface if you will, its
This is the base of it. Most of the stitching shows mostly here so may sew a net ruffle or something to the back of it.
This is a side view to give you an idea of the depth of it.
So, what do you think?
These are some brooches I made. The first one is going to be for my little sisters 24th birthday next week (she doesn't read this so I am safe for the moment ;) ) Can you guess her favourite colour?
This second one I made in purple and violet. It was origionally intended for myself but while at a reenactment training weekend a friends little girl decided it was destined to hers when I finished it so, as it was her birthday that week I sat and did lots of stitching on it, backed it with some commerical felt and then put a brooch back on it. She was very happy! (and her mum plans to nab it as soon as she gets bored of it!)
More pictures soon!
Anyway I mentioned in my last post about the felt bowl I made at my evening class. Well, here it is! Its made of merino wool tops, was formed over a ceramic bowl, felted and then saturated with PVA glue. Its stiff but flexible and holds it shape well. I've trimmed the edge so its not whispy any more and have started stitching on it.
This is looking into the bowl - the on show surface if you will, its
This is the base of it. Most of the stitching shows mostly here so may sew a net ruffle or something to the back of it.
This is a side view to give you an idea of the depth of it.So, what do you think?
These are some brooches I made. The first one is going to be for my little sisters 24th birthday next week (she doesn't read this so I am safe for the moment ;) ) Can you guess her favourite colour?
This second one I made in purple and violet. It was origionally intended for myself but while at a reenactment training weekend a friends little girl decided it was destined to hers when I finished it so, as it was her birthday that week I sat and did lots of stitching on it, backed it with some commerical felt and then put a brooch back on it. She was very happy! (and her mum plans to nab it as soon as she gets bored of it!)
More pictures soon!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
