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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.
This card is made out of turquoise shimmery card board. Front is covered with embossed floral imprint. Open like door at both sides and have option of four different color bordered inserts inside and matching mailing envelope. See more at bit.ly/1UtOeHB
For color thread wallpapers check this out
littlesomethings.blogspot.com/2006/04/colorful-thread-wal...
A needle and thread can make fabulous designs to make the eyes wonder. This needle has the power to sew their life too.
The photo was taken from the Internship Venue of ASAP.
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CC BYNC-SA 3.0 IGO © UNESCO-UNEVOC/Divya Martin
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Hello all! I know I have been absent for some time. I am going to try and be more avid in posting pictures. I have quite a few on various SD cards that I have been hoarding for myself. I desperately need a portrait lens to take my photography to another level. I went to Turkey for 3 weeks to see my family and it was a glorious trip! So much family and food - two of my favourite things. Photos to come. I also just bought a pro account for 3 months since its what I can afford for now at the time being. At least I can purchase my account in tid bits.
Yesterday my shirt had a hole in it so I decided to try and sew it together so it would be less noticiable and wouldn't turn into a much bigger and unmanagable hole. Thus this picture was born.
The thread is Opera, light yellow, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.
The design is by Jo Ann Maxwell, "So Beautiful" from The Big Book of Doilies, American School of Needlework booklet #1262.
Sew as much as you can on the battery connector until the hole is too full of thread to make another stitch.
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.
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
The workshop was frustrating in the sense that there were only two usable sewing machines for 14 people I think, only one spool of thread the right colour, and no other equipment besides what people happened to bring. I was surprised when Momolita announced that it was over; my dress was still in pieces. It never occurred to me that 6 hours would be too little time. Then again I've never sewn such a complicated dress. I'm very happy I attended. It has made me more relaxed when it comes to super sheer fabrics, gathering, and sleeves, and shown me a different way to work with patterns; all valuable lessons :-) Oh and glue. She did use the odd dot of glue to secure corners here and there.
Oh btw Momolita is super sweet!! And she was very concerned that we all manage to make a nice dress. She unpicked and redid parts of the dress for a few of us including me. No doubt this hints at the reason she is so successful in what she does; she wants everything to be perfect :-) Or at least as nice as possible.
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.
I've never really like the aesthetics of threadless stems, so I went ahead and had my steerer tube cut and threaded.