best laid plans

Unfortunately I've done no stitching in past few days. Various reasons - coffee mornings, ENORMOUS christmas tree, santa parade and possible mice infestion.

Had some thoughts on my fabric book which I'll get down on paper and scan in. In short I'm going to approach it like a conventional book. with content page, introduction and chapters. There will be 3 chapters - one on linear stitching, one on adding fabric to fabric and another on texture.

I'm feeling inspired by:-

*Purple Missus' experiments with her ink and bleach samples. I'm going to look through some of my photos of texture and mess about in a photo editor.
*scrunchy pages of my daughters fabric books. I think I can achieve a similar effect by making a greaseproof paper sandwich.

Goals for 2007

Sharon B at inaminuteago is launching another stitch challenge on 2nd Jan 2007. Its called Take a Stitch Tuesday. Think I'll "sign up".

thank you Purple Missus!

Just noticed I have a comment on yesterday's post. So happy! thank you Purple Missus.

I have the biggest displacement activity - a 3 month old totally adorable daughter. Am I mad to even think I'll get any stitching done?

;-)

rosy cheeks

No stitching again but I did manage to tidy up both the front and back gardens. Dead summer flowers (and even weeds) have been mocking me for months now. It was a lovely sunny day today and it was very pleasant being outside, not too bracing. The garden almost looks respectable (but bare without the weeds!).

Have decided to rejig the pages of my journal. The first page (on opening) will be a introduction, like the mission statement for my bracelets project. I like the font. Its called -

Disgusting Behavior

but I plan to print onto transfer paper and then iron onto fabric. It may not give a clear print, will have to experiment....

its christmas

I've done no stitching but I have managed to decorate one room in the house. Christmas baubles and fairy lights in the conservatory. Hopefully get some stitching done tomorrow. If I can get time on PC tomorrow I'll try and do some printing on transfer paper. Must remember to reverse the print so I can iron onto fabric!

deliberating

One of the objectives of the black and white journal is for it to be handstitched and therefore easy to pick up and put down. All my craft stuff is packed away at the moment and the project fits in one large box (materials) and one folder (pages I'm working on). I've been designing some pages this weekend and I'm keen to do some crazy quilting, in particular seam treatments. However the initial fabric base will require a sewing machine (or alot of backstitching). Can I be bothered to unpack it? Would also like to do some trapunto for the journal cover...this too would require a sewing machine (or alot of patience)... maybe my first page won't apply to the WHOLE journal!

collection of materials for Black & White Fabric Journal

materials, originally uploaded by fionacupcake.

to kick start this project again I laid out all the materials I had collected for my Black & White fabric journal. It reminded me of some ideas I had in the begining (Aug 06), like creating ATCs in envelopes to go in pockets. Also plan to do a crazy quilt effect over a double page. Really like the letter beads and my polka dot ribbon.