Drops

These are to be part of a street art project I’m working on.  I didn’t realize there were so many of them until I took them out of the bag to take a picture.

Facing faces

I’ve been thinking of what to do with my embroidered faces. In the end i decided to just put them in a frame. There is something in the composition I don’t like, but I’ll put them on a wall and see if I can figure out how to rearrange them. Or maybe I will like it after a while.

The fabric I’ve emboidered on is a thrift shop find. I suppose someone made a chair seat and cut a cirkel out of it, because there were four corners left. I like the rounded line and wanted the coarse feeling of the fabric to be visible. This way, the shape of the fabric parts is a picture in itself.

‘Tis the time of the year…

…when I start making lots of trunks. If you want to make your own x-mas gifts and is looking for something not too difficult but very appreciated. look no further. I’ve made lots of comox trunks, and had lots of praise. You buy the pattern here (it’s not mine, not connected to me in any way, I just like it).

I’ve got plans to change the pattern and take away the baggy front to fit me as well, will let you know how that goes.

Caped. Shortly. In the dark.

I put the cape on yesterday afternoon. It was a bit tight over the shoulders, the holes were meant for her hands to stick out, not the shoulders , so it looks a bit more like a dress than a cape. The dark falls early in Stockholm in the fall, so the pictures aren’t great. When I came back to take some better ones at noon today, the cape was already gone. Feels a bit sad actually. This time I signed my creation, though, so maybe I’ll get some feedback from the person who took it.

Time and again

It really IS time to start working on Christmas presents. It really is, but it’s so hard to stop doing this

Faces

My second face is finished.

Baby it’s cold outside

It’s getting cold, so I’ve made a cape for Mimi, the statue I dressed up this summer.

The challenge is to get her arms into it. I’ve made two rectangular openings and hope they’ll be in the right place.

Of course, i could have taken her measurements last time, but where’s the sport in that?

I made the openings by sewing a rectangle of fabric on the right side of the cape, where I wanted the openings. I then cut an opennig in the middle, turned them inside out and fastened the rim with a very narrow zig sag. 

Four corners

I have four corners of this crude linen (or hemp?) fabric. My plan now is to make four faces. We’ll see what comes out of it

Sleepless in Stockholm

This really is heavily addictive. I find myself hurrying home so I can do a few stitches and last night I sat up until 3 in the morning because I had to give a go to the hair.

I ended up using the “front” side as front. The back side was a bit more vague becaue the stitches were smaller, which is what attracted me at first but then I decided to go with visibility. For this time.

Back to back

I’m experinenting wiith embroidery. The two faces are on the same piece of fabric, on each side. I haven’t decided yet whic should be front and which should be back. I’m making half cross stitches on the one side, making them a little irregular since I want to create a feeling for skin with an uneven surface. Right now the diagonal ones seem more like hair to me, so i’m leaning towards using the back as front.