needles, thread and inspiration

Today I finished an embroidery project, felt all smug, and then looked at the work of Maricor/Maricar and felt completely inferior and completely inspired. Would you just look at this stitchery?!

 

bits and bobs

Just a couple of speedy things to remind myself this blog exists! The first is for a wedding, and the second for a project I am currently running looking at character and narrative.

 

 

Happy Friday, all. May your weekends be blissful.

x

The people I love make beautiful things.

Here is one of them:-

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Photographic loveliness

Photographic loveliness

30 day challenge – day 4 – something green

Amy, day 4: something green

Grace, day 4: something green

 

 

 

intaglio

Also, today I’ve been making intaglio prints in a lo-tech but very satisfying way. Want a go? Use the shiny side of cereal-box type cardboard, and scratch the design in using the point of a compass/a biggish sewing needle/the point of an awl. Apply printing ink with a scraper (a bit of card will do) so that it goes into the scratches, then rub off the ink from the rest of the plate using a rag. Put through a printing press with damp paper. Gorgeous!

30 day challenge – 3 – clouds

Amy, day 3, clouds (intaglio print made by scratching into a train ticket)

 

Grace – day 3 – clouds