A small collage piece, sample really, approx 10cm sq employing some of the things on my mind just now….

.. stencilling, freehand machine piecing, machine and hand stitch, hand drawn elements …

Where are the stencils available?  I cut them myself from template plastic using an art knife and my own pencil line drawings.  The two I actually used above are from a group  of variations of the traditional one I always think of as the rising sun –

-not sure what its name is but I always think of it as that… or sunset I guess, depending which way you’re looking at the time.  

I’m a keen hand stitcher/embroiderer from way back, love combining paint with stitch and over the past few years have enjoyed its renaissance in textile art.  Mixed media is the term you hear a lot these days.  Perfect.