A patchwork plastic bag made from plastic bags! Three different kinds of plastic bags melded together using an iron, and then zig zag stitched together to make a little bag.
This was a practice run, i think the zig zags need to be tighter and therefore stronger.
My plan is to make a patchwork style tote for shopping. I'm saving up the plastic bags as we speak, i'll need a few!!
This is how i had breakfast this morning, sadly the picture doesn't really do it justice, if i'd had my, well our (Chris and My) Fuji camera i could probably have taken some better shots.
Anyway, it was Terry's Birthday today, Terry is what you might call the Man of the house, it is his and Ann's house that i lodge in. Though i'm a close family friend, sometimes described as the 'surrogate daughter' and so i got to join in the celebratory breakfast. I'd like to make a point of pointing out the crockery, it is by a wonderful potter name Ann McNulty based in Eniskillen in Northern Ireland.
It was a great way to start my day (after i'd ran out to get some flowers for Ann and a card for Terry!)
And this is my 'find' of the day a wonderful necklace from a charity shop, mmmmm second hand things. Sorry about the rather obvious cleavage!!
I've had the week off work, and with no plans i decided i wanted to do something productive with my time, especially as when I am working, I don't get a great deal of time to do the things I actually WANT to do, because i'm tired and want to just vegetate in front of the television, certainly not what i should be doing!!
So i started this little project last sunday, i'd made these yo-yos a while ago but had never put them to good use, and as i didn't have an idea in mind, i just sewed them down to a piece of neutral felt. i quite like working in this way, no ideas, because when i do have a vision in mind of what i want to create, it never looks like that. At least this way any outcome was going to be good, and hopefully i'd like it.
And luckily i do! It is as of yet unnamed, i have always found it difficult to name my work, but I am really chuffed to have created something that i am pleased with and have worked on continuously, i hope this is the beginning of a new run of artworks.
Thanks to Martha Stewart I made a a huge pom-pom out of tissue paper that is now suspended from my ceiling. AND it only cost me 79p to make! I think there will be more of these.
Go to marthastewartcrafts.com to find out how to make your own.
That's a bee that is! And i took the photograph! Chuffed is what I am.
Finally a picture!!
This is a piece i've been working on for a little while, any spare time i get when i'm at home, and am not busy doing other things. Luckily i've now moved into my permanent room, its big and spacious and wonderful, and i have a table set up so i can sew easily!
It's all machine embroidery on felt at the moment, as you can see it has warped the shape somewhat, but it just started off as an experimental piece which will hopefully grow into a grown up piece of art.
I want to do more machine embroidery on it and then add to it with applique, and hand embroidery and maybe add some beads. Watch this space, as they say!
I've got a degree!! i got my results today and i am SO pleased, after 4 years, some of them very tough, and after being fed up to the back teeth with Fine Art I am so pleased i've come out of it with a 2:2.
Now onto making art i LOVE to create and have a fantastic time doing it.
A patchwork plastic bag made from plastic bags! Three different kinds of plastic bags melded together using an iron, and then zig zag stitched together to make a little bag.
