Time for Reflection

Work in Progress from a previous month when we looked at couching

Pieces which have been cut up and reassambled from a previous month's play day

A lovely book cover made by the 'Honorary Member' of our group and also the youngest person

These photographs do not do justice to these two beautiful pieces of crewel work.

Our patchworking member of the group made this lovely cushion.

An inspirational cutting about 'The Roses' produced by Cy Twombly and a very suitable start for a piece of textile work I think ....

Stitch of the Month - Feather Stitch

Almost Fly Stitch

Very Neat

Usual Chaos

Lovely integration into one piece of work

More Fractures

Today was the day and members of the group got to grips with 'Fractured Surfaces' ....

The colours shown here do not do justice to the actual pieces of fabric produced. The picture above shows was produced by mother and daughter as a team and they chose the larger format as per my instructions.  It was a mixtutre of silk and velvet in the oddest colours but the combination really worked.

This one was created using fabrics which measured half the size of the piece shown first.  It also demonstrates what happens if you do not put a backing fabric behind the reassenmbled strips which is of a similar colour.

This one is work in progress and hopefully will be completed for our June meeting.  It incorporates velvet which adds a further dimension to the work.  Unfortunately one of the pieces is missing that was produced.  Not sure how it got missed, but apologies to the person concerned.

 This was a mixture of velvet and habotai silk mounted onto a piece of dupin silk ... what next

 Print circles onto a piece of black felt and cut away a spiral.  Overlay onto the fractured piece.

A piece of card has been cut away with a scalpel and also overprinted before laying it over the original red sample shown earlier on.

and, finally, this is the piece of felt cut out from the black felt square which has been overlaid onto the red fractured surface.

Fractured Sample

Edges have been evened up

This is my sample which I made this afternoon.  It may get sliced up and reassembled again before our meeting.  Once the backing fabric is put on it the gaps should not be visible - I hope.

Stage 1 - strips of red velvet on black silk

Stage 2 - sliced and reassembled onto a red silk background

Stage 3 - sliced and reassembled again but onto Bondaweb this time

MAY Meeting - Fractured Surfaces

I have put together some instructions to create a workshop for everyone on 'Fractured Surfaces' for the May meeting and below are shown one or two examples of pieces created using the resulting material.  I will send out a requirements list once I have made a sample piece, but you will need two or three pieces of coloured silk fabric and/or silk velvet and a piece of black silk or silk velvet, A further piece of fabric in similar colours for the backing fabric, together with around 2 metres of Bondaweb.  No stitching involved, just cutting and sticking.

This was a small piece in one of the Yorkshire Travelling Journals I had recently.  Obviously the colours were red and black

These two pages showing the inspiration and resolved piece were in another Yorkshire Travelling Journal I saw when I was Up North recently.  A mixture of greens used this time and cleverly overlaid with another piece of fabric so the fractured surface is peeping through from behind.

This was the inspiration for the red piece and I think it must be one of Sandra Middleton's pieces where she has used a mixture of colours and then patched them all together in a larger piece.