Emboidery

E is for Emboidery

 

Lots of hand stitching in my projects these days. It is meditative,
 makes you slow down. You can get lost in it.  This is a good thing.

I think the cosmos wants me to embroider. I have acquired LOTS of embroidery floss from
three friends. First was my close art pal who was given a huge
 neatly bagged pile of floss from a friend. Next one had an aunt who was
clearing out her stash of unused art supplies. Finally was my paper making mentor
who was  decommissioning her studio.

You can't let something like this go unanswered & unused.

 

Somewhere I ran across a suggestion to use spent thread spools for floss. Brilliant!
With all the sewing I do I had quite a collection. Trying to use floss from the skein you buy
 is maddening as it tangles very easily.

I have dabbled in embroidery since I can remember. I saved this piece from a chambray shirt I embellished in college. Not sure why. Maybe so it could show up in this post?

I took a lovely class in Petoskey with Christine Mauersberger this past summer.
She walked us through several exercises to help create lines & images
 to use in samples of techniques.

Riffing off our finger prints.

We scattered salt onto black paper
then used french knots to recreate the density of the grains on fabric.

Quite time consuming This is as far as I got.

I've been having fun making pin cushions from old sweater pieces I've felted.
I then embroider the pieces before stitching together. They are filled with rice.

Do you have a passtime that engages your hands, gets you to slow down, and absorbs you?
I highly recommend it in these times of being at home.