Artwork and garments made from or incorporating fibre and textile.
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpet #6 Good progress has been made this week, despite having to unpick a few errors. Mapping out the design with the dark red thread. I had to unpick and redo a bit at the top because I mis-counted. When I added the top diamond, the…
I'm sorry I didn't manage to get round all the desks last week - it's been a busy week. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny carpet #6! The final one. I have done the design and made a start. This is the inspiration for it: In order to co-ordinate it better with…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpet #5 complete The work on this one has progressed really well this week. Last week I left you with the green partially done. Here is the green, completed (apart from the background). To begin the backgrounds for the top and bottom sections, I have chosen…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Needle Book #3, Tiny Carpet #5 Working on the front cover of the third and final needle book. Last time I showed the chart for this design: based on this Islamic prayer mat: I am steaming ahead with the embroidery. Here is the first stage completed -…
What's On Your Workdesk This Wednesday? Great news - I've finished the first two needle books! This marks the completion of the first four tiny carpets. On Monday the recipient of one of the needle books came for lunch and I was able to give it to her. She was absolutely delighted with…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpets I have now completed Tiny Carpet #4, which completes the cover for the second needle book. When I left you last week, I was working on the cream thread. It didn't take me long to complete this stage. The border was now complete, and I'd…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Continuing to work on my Tiny Carpets project for making needle books. I have made very good progress on Tiny Carpet #4 this week, and began by mapping out the central motifs. This process involves quite a lot of counting, and stranding the thread across some bare…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? As usual, my desk has been the recliner and the kitchen this week! I am continuing to make good progress on the Tiny Carpets project and have finished the red stitching for the border of Carpet #4. There's a lot of red on this one. At this…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I'm happy to say I've completed tiny carpet #3. A close-up, showing the variegated background. I'm really glad I did this. If I hadn't seen a TV programme with an oriental rug on it which had this, I would have gone ahead and just done the plain…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I've been making good progress on tiny carpet #3. The border is now complete. I was about to embark on filling in the background with the dark blue thread, when I happened to be watching something on TV that featured oriental carpets. I noticed that the plain…
