Pen and stitch

Apologies for the creases in the above piece it's not been damp-stretched yet. This a fine cotton hanky that I've doodled some stylised honeysuckle flowers on. I've also added a little pocket, also made from fine cotton, that I've also doodled on. 

There's buttonhole lace, a bit of running stitch, a couple of french knots and a bullion loop on  the pocket. I've started to add running stitch on the background of the cloth. I'm using machine embroidery thread for this to keep the lightness and delicacy  of the fabric. It's going to take a little while though.

These last two photos are of a paper piece that'll go in my ledger -hand drawn honeysuckle in different colours. The centres of the flowers are pinpicks.  This'll be paired with a fabric piece, reflecting this drawn one.

There'll be more doodling on fabric and paper. 

TTFN 

Works in progress (wips)

My pile of wips is quite big. These are some of the things I am working on at the moment.

This is a pocket being attached with chain stitch. The pocket has drawn and embroidered petals. 

The top image is of stylised honeysuckle flowers drawn on paper with pin pricked centres. The bottom one is the same,  except it's drawn on broderie anglais? I'll be adding french knots for the centres on here. They'll be mounted in my ledger when finished. 

This is a vintage hanky, with more drawn stylised honeysuckle flowers. I've added a pocket that's edged with buttonhole lace. I'm in the process of adding kantha stitches (lots and lots of running stitches) across the hanky covering everything that's not drawn on. It's going to take some time,  but it's really relaxing.

This is going to be a little pouch. It'll be folded in half, where you can see the crease, with the image of peonies on the front and the boat made out of broderie anglais. 

This is what I've been working on today. More doodling on white spotted fabric. The cutwork circle has a ruched pocket lined with lace inserted into it. I'm in three process of adding bullion loops around the outside of the pocket.

There's more, but these are the one's I'm doing something to at present. 

TTFN 
Louise 

Swathed in stitch 11 - two new design sheets

Design sheet 10

This design sheet has been done on tracing paper as I wanted to trace elements from other design sheets and sources. The shape of the doodle, a heart shape with circles on the top, was traced from a photo of an exhibit (Red Independent Heart by Joana Vasconcelos) in the Colecao Berado museum in Lisbon, Portugal. 

The doodles inside the shape were traced from my previous doodles - hexies, circles, lozenges (click on 'design' in labels [in the righthand-side column about half way down] to see previous design sheets.

I'm going to draw this design onto a piece of fabric and then embellish it with embroidery.

Design sheet 11.

This sheet was drawn completely by hand and is a reference towards blue and white pottery. I will copy this design onto fabric, either by printing directly onto the fabric or redrawing it by hand. The fabric will then be used for future projects, and probably cut up.

TTFN
Louise

Swathed in Stitch 5 - Doodling on fabric

I've used a mixture of permanent pens to create both the letters and spots on white cotton. I created this one for me to use on my fifth design sheet (see the bottom two photos on my last post).

This is the second piece of doodling on fabric, this one will be similar to my second design sheet. I'll be adding some embroidery to this when I've finished the pen work.

TTFN
Louise