New Jacket x 2 and update

Update -I am still not in the best place at the moment but I also know it will take a long time to get back to normal.  Good news - I have sold my Pfaff ! Whoop whoop - so glad it will be going to a good home - to someone who will use it to its full potential.

I have started work on two jackets. One a Steampunk jacket for the museum exhibition and the other a Steampunk/post apocalyptic jacket !!  So far I have made a start on the background fabric - below is a photo of the piece which will be the side panels of the museum piece - it measures 112 cm x 85cm.  The other is a sample which I will use to work out colours for both jackets.

I have also started the background fabric (which will be the same) for the whole of the second jacket but this piece measures 150cm x 2.5 metres - so this is going to be a long project!!

Update - finished the sample piece - measured 35cm x 44cm - cut in half - one piece for each jacket.  The first one then looked like this..

And dipped in this.....

however currently looks a little dark? Hope this idea works! When it's dry I will be stitching into it too.

Steampunk Jacket update

I first mentioned a new project here on Sunday 12 April.  That's when I started making my own background fabric - 2 metres x 150 cm wide.  My usual madness!!  I have completed the first pass of stitching and the fabric as been rolled as I have stitched as I have very little work surface space in my workroom.

Now I am ready for the second pass to stitch the black figures of 8 over the surface, working from the back - so I will be rolling it back the other way.  I know that this will be even harder especially when I get half way!! But, hey that's how madly I work :-).

 
 Here is the first row from the front.  It has only taken 3 weeks for pass 1 so another 3 weeks or so for pass 2 :-) Then I will show you the next step for the background fabric.  Still a while before I cut out the actual jacket !

Hooray - a New project at last

I have spent a lovely weekend with my friends of the Machine Embroidery Group (MEG) . On Wednesday you see I had an idea - another Steam punk jacket for me. So whilst away - I set up - 2 metres x 150 cm purple fabric I had already dyed. Covered with two layers of turquoise net and a layer of Black twinkle nylon.  Then I started stitching figures of eight in matching purple thread.  I got about half way through, so excellent progress - when I have done this I will stitch again in black and then burn back before making the jacket. Pictures of work in progress so far..

This is a sample of the idea....
 Watch this space

Oh No Not again :-) and update on Iris work

OK so its day three of sorting out stuff:  decided it was time to sort these two areas - the drawers and the bead/button stack - so these:

Became these:

 AND I found I have 24 pairs of scissors in my workroom  and 5 dressmakers tape measurers !  Wonder where they all came from :-)

 Late last night I finished the first 'flat Iris' for the Van Gogh jacket.  The central petal needs to be a little slimmer at the top left,

Back to work :-)

OK so after the mega tidying session it's time to get back to some art work ;-)

I have dyed some white fabric and lace yellow ready for the sunflowers:

I have now made all the free standing petals for the practice iris - laid down on the desk (pic below) - think it will work.

 

Today it is the day to start the first of the flat Iris flowers - in the right colours - blue

Klimt, garden and tidy room

Klimt - the fabric I dyed was too bright so last night I over dyed it using navy blue 

- the result out on the line this morning - I think I may be able to use this now - it has dulled down the yellow without removing the purple - will see when it is dry - if not I will have to try again - before and after photos  

 One of my favourite flowers - lilly of the valley - aren't they just beautiful. The daisy are quite cute too

Another way of wasting time again - I was finding it hard to get through my workroom to get to the outside door - you can just make out  the way through - where the sunshine shows there on the left

- now that area looks like this and the route through is very clear - nothing was thrown away it was just sorted out. 

King Size Duvet Cover done

At long last the King size Duvet cover is done - it looks a little crumpled at the moment - I just wanted to try it out for size and obviously would look better in day light -  but I am pleased with it - each rectangle has been top stitched and I am glad I made it as a cover rather than as a quilt - I would not have got this massive thing under my sewing machine - I don't have a quilting machine !!

More Klimt

I have used Klimt as an inspiration several time in the past - today I have started another project by taking two favourite Klimt pics and drawn shapes with transfer crayons and then painted them with transfer paints.  Not sure how they will transfer - but that is for another day.

 

Alice done

Forgot to show you Alice complete:

2 types of creativity for a Bank Holiday Weekend

Part 1 - you may remember, a few posts back, I got this Anna French sample book from the scrap store.

Well the 30 pages were cut up and arranged on my living room floor - 

Yesterday I started to stitch them together (brick pattern not like on the carpet). I have got up to row six and will show you the KING SIZE DUVET Cover when it is done!

Part 2 - my French bean seedlings were looking a little miserable and my tomato plants need potting on so today my daughter and I went to the garden centre clutching 2 for 1 vouchers. Not only did I get some more French bean seedlings and a couple of grow bags (which is all I really needed) but I now have:  two geraniums, one daisy,

 a tub of mixed lettuce, two pots of lambs lettuce and look what I was persuaded (by my daughter) that I really need - it took us all day to put it together  it did leave just enough room for the two other pots of French beans (making 4 in total) BUT I don't have enough potting compost so tomorrow I will go and get yet more because I will be planting these:..









Round Carrots, Celeriac and Onions!!!!

(So I put too many toms into each grow bag but find that I will lose some when it gets hot so in the long run they work out - also needed to plant some in old pots)