samples

I have had a strange week, and couldn't seem to catch up with myself, in the end I just deleted a whole host of e-mails and my backlog on Google reader, as much as I love the Internet it gets a bit overwhelming sometimes.

I loaded these samples a week ago and forgot to post, and to end the week with a bang I slipped on a wet floor and fell full force onto my knees, not funny at my weight. Ouch.
I kept an ice pack on the painful bits all day yesterday so I am not too bad today.

I am very behind in my lessons on Dales Embellisher course, but I have printed them all off and bound them together for future reference. I will work through them all at a later date, below is a sample on bronze taffeta with voile and silks all the same tone,



Silk strips for this one, but I think my strips were too wide and it ended up like a Ra Ra skirt ( remember them, not that I was young enough to wear them at the time ) so I embellished across the rows and it calmed it down a bit



I also spent a long time waiting for Walnut ink to dry :)

June Postcards

These are the postcards for the June birthday girls, and one for Fabienne, I am very late making Fabienne's card.
The one below I made from a small sample of Trapunto, not a good idea, the wool in the channels was pushing the foot of my machine all over the place, making a wibbly wobbly edge.

Lace and Silk

While I had the glue out yesterday, I put some Lace and Silk onto Pelmet Vilene,
glued it with Uni-Bond builders PVA at full strength as the normal stuff runs right through, it has finally dried and I have painted it with a very light Silver Acrylic I use Daler Rowney System 3, it doesn't look any different at the moment may do when dry.
I have added 3 more layers of paint to yesterdays work and photographed each layer, just letting it dry now.
Not really sure whether to bore everyone with each stage or just jump to the end.
what do you think?

Postcards

Well, another old sample turned into postcards, have enough for another two from this piece I think,
This one was machine stitched onto silk, then painted using silk paints.The fabric was put onto a wadding before stitching, this creates the texture.
I can't tell you how great it feels working through my stash of samples at long last,
and postcards are just a perfect way of using them.