Here, at last, is my Summer Stitching book. First the story, then some notes.
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THE STORY
ABOUT TIME
2018
A story’s worth of stitching and suchlike.
A house with roots is a home.
To knit against cold in the wintertime.
To tend the good earth during swallow time.
And day follows day and the years roll on and all goes well. And yet…
Don’t you remember when we were young and nothing was impossible?
But now there is no time.
There is no time – like the present!
In the present, of course, you will find an Adventure! And there’s no time to lose so snatch up your fabrics, threads, yarns, pen – whatever you have to hand…
Keep to the road and follow wherever it leads step after step, word after word, stitch after stitch.
Not the end – time to embark on a new adventure…
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NOTES
For the pages in this book I used a selection of utility fabrics interlined with with Vilene Fusible Low Loft Fleece. For the cover I also used a layer of hobbs wadding.
For the stitching, I used a wide variety of stranded embroidery threads (including Anchor, DMC and unbranded) and ordinary sewing threads (including Guterman, Vintage Silko and unbranded).
I also used a wide selection of new and vintage fabric scraps, lace, tapes, yarn, buttons and notions.
For the transfers I used Lesley Riley’s Tap Transfer Paper and the transfer pictures are public domain images from The Graphics Fairy.
I gave myself two rules – 1. No frogging and 2. Using only materials that I had already.
It has been an interesting experiment, which I’ve enjoyed. It has given me lots of stitching practice and ideas for future projects :)
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
I am linking this post with Soma at Whims and Fancies for Wandering Camera.
