It's 10pm. Not a good time to be blogging. It may be my advancing years but I find that if I use the computer for too long just before I go to bed my sleep patterns simply fizz. A little like using organza on the embellisher (ha! you see my link there?!)Can you see how it sheers and wrinkles. My embellishing experiments have been limited to pre-prepared felt, organza and sheer, pretend satin with a wee bit of yarn thrown in for good measure.
This isn't the best photo, a little fuzzy, but I like the way the surface fabric mutates as it's pushed and pulled through the linen underneath. It's all a bit wave-like.
I experimented this weekend with shapes, trying to do some illustrative samples. I did the usual - a house, a bird, a rabbit (bizarrely) and made some simple egg cosy forms. I need to buy some wool roving/tops/whatever they are called as I'm quite interested in creating brand new fabrics.
I am starting to question, however, what I'm doing? Why am I doing it? What is it for? I'm asking myself all the questions I dismiss when other people ask me what I'm doing, what is it for etc! That self-critical voice is emerging. I plan to visit a friend who I suspect has a library of inspirational textile-based books. That should shut self-crit up in no time.
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