A blog about making art and other things using cloth, paper, paint, colour, stitch, and all sorts of exciting techniques, some of which I'm sure I still have to discover! I hope that the joy all this gives me is visible in what you can see here.

Tuesday 12 May 2015

Learning Lessons.


Following on from my last post, I've made a very small paper cloth concertina book.


Each little page is only 2" square, (5 cm) .



I worked from the reverse side of these small pages, and I think the needle has pulled the paint and paper through to the right side.



My fingers were nearly stitched onto the page quite a few times! 


The reverse (wrong) side, shows how much clearer the stitching is.


I stitched from the reverse side, as I found the paint and texture I had created on the front too distracting to be able to 'draw' with the machine needle.


I'm going to have a go at another, slightly larger version of this butterfly, moth, bee, bird theme, and I'll also stitch from the front next time, hopefully!

Thanks for joining me again so soon!


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5 comments:

  1. Little Arty Journeys12 May 2015 at 19:16

    This is absolutely beautiful Cath!

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  2. Paper rainbow12 May 2015 at 19:51

    Cath your little book is so exquisite!

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  3. Unknown12 May 2015 at 21:22

    Thank you Angela and Morag, not sure how many tiny books like this I could make though, apart from nearly stitching through my fingers, my nose nearly got caught too!

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  4. Anonymous13 May 2015 at 12:30

    Lovely!

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