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I decided to have a bit of fun and make a wacky handbag. This is the first stage.
I went to a scrummy shop in Much Wenlock ( Ippkin... www.ippkin.co.uk) and bought some Colinette yarn ( www.colinette.com) and a shell button in a wonderful deep yellow colour.
I then used a pair of 20 mm needles to losely knit a rectangle, which I will now weave with strips of knotted fabric and other strange things.
Watch this space!
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From the kids bedroom.
This work by Anette Snarby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
A snowy day which I spent in the studio decorating fabric and paper.
This piece of newspaper was underneath the fabric to protect the table whilst i was painting.
I used it to stitch into and then crumpled and rubbed it until it shrunk
I was initally excited about stitching up this lady. Now I am mad at her. Perhaps it was the changes I made? Maybe I shouldn't have given her cleavage, or changed her head covering into hair? Maybe I need to shut up and just keep stitching until she looks nice.
Underneath all those paper scraps are my angry, stressed-out words.
Made for Dawn Sokol's Art Journal Stimulus Project. (www.dblogala.com/)
I have now stitched two sheets of Polish newspaper in a random grid pattern. After stitching I rubbed the paper for a while to shrink it and to break down the surface. This means that it will accept paint more readily.
I only had this much left to fill in when I quit for the night so I could play Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Super Nintendo. It only took me about 15 minutes to finish up the next morning, but you'd think I could've just finished her the night before!! :P But ever since I saw this totally awesome stitchy piece, I couldn't get SMB 3 outta my head.
From the kids bedroom.
This work by Anette Snarby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The start of a new project.
There is a process which is inevitable.
This is:
The sorting of the threads.
The cleaning of the sewing machine.
The winding of the bobbins.
The clearing of the work table.
And finally, the thorough washing of the spectacles!
A very rare day alone, which I am setting aside for stitching and gardening. More of the former I hope.
possible submission to Lucy May Schofield's BABL project; another book in the she said/I said series
Considering the coronavirus issue, I decided this would be a good time to learn a new embroidery technique. This is the first step for doing raised embroidery. Next I will hand stitch the felt pieces to the background, then embroider them. WIP#1 mar. 2020.
Preparing the canvas - at last. Months of research have led up to this moment. I'm almost scared to start
New castings from my workshop in silver - for ear cuffs, cuff links, rings and brooches. Finally, 'Stiffy' the wee prototype skeleton was finished, a mould made of and 'sons' were cast. He is the darkest skeleton on the right: The silver blackens slightly when a vulkanised rubber mould is made, due to the heat involved.
I started on Amber a week ago and just picked her back up. You can see where I've already ripped out part of her head and am starting over. As always, the dark colors aren't photographing very well.
I've been working steadily on my next exhibition piece which is entitled "Brexit - the first lie"
The background fabric is a piece of distressed black denim and I'm adding slits to this to denote the cracks in society caused by the result of the referendum.
These slits are backed with fragments of old paper which I machined over, coloured and varnished.
They will be eventually "papered over"