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Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.
Could be Ammophila or perhaps Podalonia. Difficult to say even after reviewing bugguide.net.
Pretty cool wasp regardless.
Renaissance Perspective
Part of Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
(May to October 2018)
Combining sensuality with nobility, Azzedine Alaïa prized velvet for its lustrous surface and tactility, for its innate ability to hide a complex web of seams in its pile, and for its connections to the richness of the past. Alaïa often used velvet in black, but also jewel-like tones of ruby red or deep blue reminiscent of Renaissance dresses. Alaïa succeeded in modernising velvet and lightening the fabric. He created featherweight stretch velour knits that mimicked the nap of velvet, and a semi-transparent velvet that seemed like a hybrid with chiffon.
These garments are presented on a series of dress forms designed by Alaïa himself. Originally based on the proportions of the supermodel Naomi Campbell, over the years Alaïa transformed these mannequins, turning them into sculptural objects in their own right. Every tweak in proportion required the garments to be entirely reconstructed, their patterns redrafted. In their final incarnation, these figures are elongated to resemble both the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti and the exaggerated proportions of fashion illustrations.
Conceived and co-curated with Monsieur Alaïa before his death in November 2017, the exhibition charts his incredible journey from sculptor to couturier, his nonconformist nature and his infectious energy for fashion, friendship and the female body.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Alaïa personally constructed each garment by hand and refused to bow to the pressures of fashion week deadlines, instead working to his own schedule. His collaborative approach earned him an esteemed client list, including Greta Garbo, Grace Jones, Michelle Obama and Rihanna.
Rather than a retrospective, the show interlaces stories of his life and career alongside personally selected garments, ranging from the rare to the iconic and spanning the early 1980s to his most recent collection in 2017.
[Design Museum]
followed my own pattern with crochet thread #10 see modifications here www.amigurumitogo.com/2013/05/miniature-blue-panda.html
blogged at Jovita's Patchwork Atelier
DMC thread colors
pinks (left to right) 891, 3806, 601
red 666, lime 907, green 989
aqua (left to right) 992, 3812
This and the next several photos are of a tote bag where i used Solar Active thread in the embroidery designs. Solar Active thread looks white inside or on cloudy days, but in bright sunlight, the thread changes colors, depending on which spool of thread i used. in this particular design, i outlined the word PEACE and stitched the peace hand/fingers in the thread that changed to pastel yellow in sunlight
I inherited these old chocolate boxes of thread from my Mum. I did start sorting them...but it is a big job!
Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.
While at the art festival, we went to the kids craft area and spent quite a while creating some art of our own. Here, Kyleigh is threading some beads onto a leather strip which became a bracelet. It's interesting to note how her fingers have become more adept at fine detail work as she gets older. No longer clumsy and inaccurate, she is now able to coordinate her fingers with her mind to create things. It's been fun to watch her skills sharpen and refine themselves as she gets older.
- Patrick -
The first step in threading the heddles is to use sticks to separate the different sets of warp threads. Because my example wound up using so few warp threads, I decided to demonstrate with a tabby or plain weave threading. That is, every other thread will go up and down alternately.
Massive Attack - Saturday Come Slow
Slow songs on Saturday
are what I need when it's rained all week
cause the clouds came down and kept me in
my door stayed shut, the windows wouldn't bend
So I painted you some sunsets on my walls
You should really come see them
They're just for you kid
Yeah I painted you sunsets
On a white wall canvas
Yeah, they're just for you kid
This one's for you
"Saturday comes slow" Massive Attack
2 more round yellow and 1 black then this block is done this is actually square it is just resting on a black velvet pillow that is curved.
blogged
sunshinescreations.vintagethreads.com/2008/12/thread-play...
blogged
tutorial
sunshinescreations.vintagethreads.com/2009/06/yoyo-afghan...
Day 16 blue
365 days in colour
I've found that I have quite a lot of blue thread in the workbox, I shan't need to buy any for a long while.
Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.