Front of bag
Hello and a very happy weekend to you all :) Hope your week has been bright and happy? I have been really busy and the days have flown by. Nutty Knitters met on Wednesday and as usual more chatting, sipping tea and this week spoiling ourselves with a fresh Strawberry Cheesecake! My crop has started early and we have picked 12lbs of delicious berries....My family are already beginning to tire of cakes, desserts and savoury home bakes using yet more strawberries.
Yesterday our textile group met up in my studio to discuss an exhibition for next year, and of course more tea and the offering was strawberry cream cupcakes. The brief we are working to is 'Bright Lights', its so nice to get together and see our creations coming together. We all work in so many varied ways, and certainly inspire each other :)
After sketching a few ideas I gathered up a selection of fabric, ribbons, and thread 'ingredients' and created collaged surface, which was then stitched to create a firm fabric. Having cut my design out of this new fabric it was time for the fun stuff....embellishments.....lots of beads, machine embroidered cords and fabric beads were created then all the components were stitched together to create the finished bag.
These pictures show the back of my bag and some detail of the stitching and embellishments. I love working with these colours, and return to them time and time again...Happy colours!
So I am on a roll now and having spent a day last week designing I was eager to get started today on the next piece towards a new collection of work.
Most of my day today has been spent in the studio, preparing the base for another stitched creation. Hopefully I will get to embellish it tomorrow and then finish it off during the week. So watch this space :)
Oh and no doubt I will continue to gather strawberries and bake....If anyone has a favourite recipe for strawberries....oh and blackcurrants, as they are on their way too....please can you post them up for me to try...Thanks xx
Have a good rest of weekend, hugs 4 smiles M x
Detail of fabric beads
Yummmmmmmmmmmmm x
Oh, how can anyone tire of of cakes and goodies made with strawberries. :) Beautiful colours in that bag. Take care. xx
ReplyDeleteHey thanks for dropping by.....picking the strawberries just as the sun came up was lovely...and so were the sweet berries :) Now we have strawberry jam too...lol
ReplyDeleteHugs 4 smiles M xx
Hard to choose - bag or cakes, cakes or bag, bag or cakes!!
ReplyDeleteboth even!!!
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