I have several things on my mind at the moment, all of them to do with the lines and shapes formed by Nature and Human Activity on the Earth’s surface.
First, my latest stitched Suffolk puff soft sculpture is almost completely assembled – it’s part of the Growth series in this website and I love how these puffs provide a really nice surface on which to stitch. Moving on further, it might make some sense to embroider first before cutting out the circles. I’ve filed each photo I’ve taken of this group of forms “Grey and gold puffs” and this one has added “Grey and gold puffs with basting blog” because it has been resized to fit on this page. That however will probably not be the title of the finished work, in which case I’ll need to rename the several pics for consistency.
Second, sheer fabrics I pinned an image on Pinterest the other day because that pic reminded me of the love affair I’ve always had with the design potential of sheer fabrics (I also follwed the link to the wonderful work of Beate Hien which I’ll explore in depth sometime soon) I used nylon organza in several of the Timetracks series, and one I made after our trip to Egypt titled“Gift of The Nile” scroll down because there are pics of others in that post, too.
Third, grids. My regular readers know that grids are my default design layout 🙂 That pinterest image reminded me of the potential of double needle stitching a line. About fifty years ago, when the Princess line with A-line skirt was in vogue, I made myself a lovely special occasion dress (the races? a wedding? I forget…) The bodice featured silver metallic lines of double needle stitching I did on the fabric before cutting out the pattern piece, and there a fine ridge formed between the two lines visible on the surface. How could I forget this – it is a perfect technique for my next Out of Order piece…. I want to produce much more distortion in the grids as the deteriotation of the state of the world seems to have accelerated markedly over the past year, and this will be the perfect technique to lay down the grid for #4, coming up soon.
