Just to answer comments first. Heather: thanks for the lovely comments about WoW. I liked the collagraphs on your blog. The paint makes so much difference and I have found that it does not work at all well with runny acrylics. The extender is really useful as the paint dries out too quickly otherwise.
I am very grateful to you all for the comments on the embellisher machine. They are such fun but I think they are most useful when combined with stitching. I am also keen to make a finer fabric as the embellisher can be a bit chunky.
So I am using silk chiffon as a base, with applied silk fibres and fine stitching. I do plan to make a jacket, Lynne, maybe more than one. My tailoring skills are not great so it will be a very simple pattern. Also quite hooked on the idea of using knitting on a finer embellished surface. Chunky knitting to give a contrast. Sara Shinton has an article in the March Workshop on the Web on making and using strips knitting and I'm hooked - see below.
Not very sharp pics as I am using the tablet for this post but you get the idea. It's all such fun and is taking up so much time but I haven't had a big project on the go for a while so it's good.
We have a paranoid sparrow in the garden. He started by attacking his reflection in the car wing mirror (not to be encouraged) and moved on to the sitting room window. I was watching this pantomime unfold from the comfort of my chair. He disappeared, only to return almost at once for a repeat performance. By now, of course, someone else was on the case, and his third attack revealed a huge cat face on the other side of the glass. Haven't seen him since.
I have had to put aside the collagraphing for a while and get on with some course work before my tutor has to nag me! But I am looking forward to making some better ones using the extender.
ReplyDeleteI have tried embellishing knitting and achieved quite nice firm backgrounds. I added wisps of wool and silk tops to make my sample into a landscape, adding a machine embroidered tree worked on soluble fabric, plus more texture in the foreground. Your fine work sounds beautiful - I'd be scared of pulverising it!
I can't wait to see your results of using the embellisher to make fabric which you will use in a jacket...sounds so wonderful to me!
ReplyDeleteLoved the knitted strips as well.
I like the idea of your fine work. I always use my embellished pieces to stitch into because I feel there is something missing if I don't. Looking forward to seeing the next WOW although slightly frustrated as I will be at a class all day! Those knitted strips look great. I bet the sparrow became even more paranoid when he saw Smudge, probably gone off to attack the neighbours car/windows
ReplyDeleteBy the way, is extender the same thing as Acrylic Flow Improver?
ReplyDeleteLOLOL love that bird tale
ReplyDeleteI have done quite abit of embellishing on machine washed felted woollies with great results.
And one or two bits of my knitting that I cudnt be bothered to pull right back.......I chopped them into odd shapes and 'bellished them in to the felt too.....added great texture.