Thanks so much for all the insight, feedback and thoughts, so far on my last post. Of course, now there's just more I want to tell you, but for today, I'm only talking 'creating', sewing to be exact.
For at least a year and a half, I've been desperately drawn towards sewing and embroidery? Why? I'm not entirely sure, probably because I love beautiful fabric designs, it's fun, so tactile, calming and challenging me to step out of my familiar creative box ~ ok, fine...there are a lot of reasons why I'm drawn to this new medium. Oh, and also I would be remiss if I didn't mention how inspired I am by artists like my favorite Mummysam, who has a book coming out this year {I cannot wait}, Mary's Grandaughter, Kstudio, and my good friends Mavis, Veronique and Lisa. I'm still playing with how I want to express this in my work, but one direction I'm leaning towards is illustration with sewing, remember my tea towel? The tea towel was stitched by hand and now I'm attempting this with a machine.
Finally, finally! after one year of having a special kind of foot with a spring for free motion stitching, I actually took it out of the packaging and attached it to my sewing machine. Crazy fun I tell you. And crazy hard to get an illustration as smooth as you can with a pen or pencil :) But here's the first result, hunny bunny. {thank you for her name Lisa}
And the story behind "honey bunny": She is my first ever illustrated face on the sewing machine. Her dress is decorated with my first ever illustrated, let's just call it, abstract randomness on a sewing machine. Her turquoise ric rac is re-purposed from a from some beautiful packaging. Her back is made from my own fabric. Her feet are made from fabric I bought in Montmartre in Paris, and so is that red button she is wearing. I LOVE her and that is all.
More sewing to come.
