Another seahorse

The other day I was working on some of my sketches for making thermofax screens and I copied too many seahorses, so, not to let the paper go to waste, I used the papers to free motion stitch out the seahorse on chiffon.

I have used pale thread on a white chiffon, so i put a piece of black paper behind it for you to see it. It is very filmy and I'm not sure what I will do with it, but it will find a home with the others.
just a short one today as the internet is incredibly slow today.

Happy creating!

Some sea life

I finished another UFO today.  This one I started quite a while ago, in fact a year ago!

It is a seahorse free motioned onto a blue and white collage.  I have added beads, more free motion, hand stitch and couching.

 Here are some close ups of the stitching

I also finished the edges, beading of course.   Here is the finished piece hanging.

So, that is my art for today.  Hope you like it.

Happy creating!

a bit of an update

I have been very quiet on the blogging front, and perhaps even the creating front.
I have hit the mid winter doldrums, I think.  It is so cold, especially here out in the bush with only a wood fire.  Mornings are are bit of a struggle, until the house warms up.  I have been working, on my Tangled Textiles piece, and two swaps, which I am extremely late finishing.  But of course I can't show those, so here are some other bits and pieces.

Here is the foundation for a quick collage.  I have used lots of blue scraps, cotton, stamped organza, and rovings.

Here I have free motioned a seahorse and shell from one of my sketchbooks.

Then I did some free motion on the background, pebbles and waves in variegated blues.

and a few close ups of my messy free motion.

Here I have started beading and some hand stitching.  I like this one, but the beading and hand stitching will take a while.  I have had to put it aside for a few other more urgent pieces at present.
I have been working in my sketchbook-

The first one is a sketch for a collage piece that was in my head for a while.  The last two are sketches from old masters' sculptures.

And I have been working on this new york beauty - a la eleanor burns, which has been sitting in my ufo collection for a bout a year.

I also made a little sketchbook after seeing one a friend had made

I used some painted paper for the cover and some scrap paper from a failed experiment for the endpages.

And that's enough for one week, don't you think?