Carol McFee: Moonglow

A while ago I showed you this, to save going searching for the pictures I thought I would post them again,

Calico stitched to cotton wadding

Covered in Molding Paste

Black ink and too much bleach

more ink but the bleach kept working

Close up

More black ink and walnut ink

A spritz of Moonshadow Mist Tawny Turquoise.

This piece sat around like this for a while and this week I decided to make a little book.
I painted some pelmet vilene and stitched it to the back of the square, I then folded it in half corner to corner.

In my cupboard was a book on Titian, my son had bought it for me from a second hand bookshop while I was doing C&G as inspiration, It had large colour plates on each page and a description on the reverse, I decided it needed a new lease of life. I cut the pages into squares and gave the back of the page a quick paint with acrylic, ready to be decorated at a later date.

To finish off the pages I carefully burnt the edges with a small T-Light, making sure I had a wet cloth to stop the smouldering pages from burning too much.

I attached the pages with a simple stab stitch trapping a black bead on the outside.

First I would like to wish every one in blogland

A Very Happy Holiday and a Very Creative New Year

It is nearly 3 years since I started my blog and it has to be one of the best things I ever did, it helped me get back to my textiles after 6 months of not being able to do anything creative.

I have also made so many wonderful friends all over the world, for which I am very grateful.

It was through the blog I met Lynda Purplemissus which in turn led us to starting Fibre in-Form and then the online workshop, but the most exciting thing of all this year is being asked by Maggie Grey to write a book for dfordaisy .

So all in all it was a very good move.

The time has gone by so quickly since my last post, but I have finally done all those jobs that need doing at this time of year.

I though I would show a few things I have hanging around the workroom, or the kitchen for this first picture.

I am working on the free online classes linked to Maggies latest book Textile Tranlations, The first thing we had to do was put a catalogue outside so all the elements could attack it.

I finally brought mine indoors, living in a top floor flat means there is nowhere to wash it out side, so it was dunked into the sink with disinfectant 4 times and placed on plastic under the radiator in the kitchen, its a good job my family are into what I do, or I don't know what they would think when they arrive tomorrow.

This started out as my triangle book, no I don't know what happened to the
triangle LOL, again for Maggies class, I am a bit behind but I just have to think of something to use for my pages now. Then begin on my altered books for the next lesson.

This is also in the workroom waiting for the fabric pages to be stitched in, I have stitched two but its very hard on the hands, so its slow going.

I am having trouble with my camera at the moment, and also the dark days make it difficult to get a good shot, the picture doesn't show the lovely crusty ice effect of the surface

This little piece below was one of those mindless stitching projects for in front of the TV.I placed cotton wadding into an embroidery frame, I had some white emulsion painted calico, I tore this into strips and attached the strips with large random seed and cross stitches.

Once finished I didn't want to stitch the edges of the strips down so covered the whole surface with molding paste,

Next I covered it with black Quink ink and flicked bleach all over, I think I was a little enthusiastic with the bleach and it took most of the ink out.