Nade Simmons aka What Nade Made is a mixed media artist from the UK. Her vibrant hand embroidered embroideries are packed with texture, colour and energy, and are truly refreshing!
It’s always fun to meet other embroidery artists and today I want to introduce you to the work of Diane Scott! I first became acquainted with Diane and her work on Instagram and she is truly a mixed media artist. I love getting a peek into her art journals to see how her paintings or sketches inform
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Once all the fabric collage sections are completed, it's now time to assemble the mini-journal.
Un post di poche parole...giusto per i saluti pre-natalizi, il tempo e' tirannoooo... Tag per i pacchetti natalizi, ispirati naturalmente alla Balzer: E ancora riciclo di avanzi di stoffa: tante tante casette che vanno ad occupare i rami dell'albero (ma poi verranno riciclate a loro volta). E un progettino, sempre per l'albero, ispirato ai mitici 6 giorni Holidays Handmade, 31 progetti, tutorial, ispirazioni da usare tutto l'anno: Buon Natale!!
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It may seem like a long time till August but this year I'm determined to be better prepared for Festival of Quilts than I usually am. I've already started to make pincushions. These always sell well as they make nice gifts and don't take up much space in folks' suitcases! The embroidery machine has been purring away in the background while I free motion quilt a waterlily panel on the opposite side of the workroom. It's the most satisfying feeling - I can't tell you how much I love the sound of stereo sewing machines! This first batch are worked on indigo dyed fabrics, some of which have also been rusted. They were free motion quilted for a previous incarnation but have now been up-cycled using Husqvarna digital embroidery designs. While I'm in the zone I've also been making more 12 inch panels to decorate the stand. Laura printed and quilted the fabrics and I've been adding embroidery with another Husqvarna design - I couldn't resist Alliums when the garden is full of the real thing right now. We've got white ones and yellow but the purple are definitely my favourites. These are only just opening but they'll soon be magnificent, first as blooms and later as enormous seed heads that last for months. Just in case you think I'm going soft with all this flowery stuff - not all the flowers in our garden are so innocent looking! We're deciding where we can put this monster so the evil smell will not put us off our dinner. It attracts flies so nowhere near the house that's for sure! Can't remember if I've already let you see this but my latest crow painting is waiting to be scanned and digitally printed. I'm hoping Jamie can print it full width of the fabric for a bit of drama! Finally, I've had complaints about the lack of Amelie photos lately. Maybe she's trying to avoid the paparazzi these days. Looking cool anyway! Thanks for reading this. Talk to you again soon with more on preparations for Festival.
This blog captures my journey into experimenting with textiles and paint and machine stitches.
Anne Kinniment makes embroidered pictures using a combination of painting, appliqué, machine and hand embroidery. Her main interest is the textures shapes and colours found in plants and nature, with...
Love the colours and the whimsy of this piece. Genus Imaginus - A Collection of Imaginary Flora Fibre artist Carolyn Flood creates original contemporary designs in thread. Her bold images of idiosyncratic flowers catch your attention from a distance, and get even more interesting as you get closer. Seductively tactile compositions on cotton and silk fabrics entail both machine stitching and hand embroidery. With sensuous materials and sensual imagery, Carolyn Flood gives us flowers as they see themselves. November 15, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Before I start the tutorial I would like to thank Kirsty of Me Plus Molly for her lovely gift of bundles and bundles of organzas and angelina fibres in loads of gorgeous colours. These were the greens she sent me ... There are lovely copper tones in the green angelina fibres - perfect for leaves and woodland projects I love to recycle in my textile work and I hate to waste those little leftover snippets of chiffon, silk, organza, glitzy, shimmery, metallics fabrics, bits of plastic, carrier bags and waste thread too precious to throw away I collect all these little bits in plastic pots (takeaway containers with lids are perfect for this - more recycling!). My pots of snippets are colour co-ordinated to make it easier when I come to use them later So, I thought I would share with you another technique that uses up those little scraps of fabric Mixed Media Textiles - Tutorial - Leaves from fabric scraps Use a piece of felt or fleece for the background and cut some leaf shapes to whatever size you like. Mine are approximately 8 inches long and about 4 inches wide. Pile up your scraps on top of your leaf shapes Then place a piece of chiffon on top of each felt leaf and pin in place all the way round The next step is to tack round the edges of the leaf. Remember tacking from school? I used to hate it. I was so lazy I used to just pin and sew and I still do unless there is a real reason to tack. Here, you really do need to tack round the edges to keep all the bits inside the felt and chiffon "sandwich" or else they just go everywhere when you start to machine embroider Tack with a matching thread then you don't need to remove the stitches. When you machine embroider the stitches will blend in After you've tacked round your leaf, trim away the chiffon Machine stitch your design on the leaves over the chiffon. I used a forest green metallic thread. I sewed round the edges first and up and down the centre of the leaf first, then I embroidered veins and circles, something a bit different on each leaf - it's up to you Machine embroidered patterns Tie off all your ends and trim where necessary The next step is the fun part (for me!). I heat up my soldering iron and very gently burn away the chiffon in places. It will also melt and fuse some of the other materials, ie. plastics and carrier bag plastic HEALTH AND SAFETY - Please take care. The soldering iron will be "white hot" so don't burn yourself. Make sure you have somewhere safe to rest it, have some water handy and a wet cloth (just in case). I use the wet cloth to clean the soldering iron when it gets messy. You also need to be aware that this technique creates smoke and fumes so please be careful if you have breathing problems or are asthmatic. A mask should be worn and used in a well ventilated area or outside I added more machine embroidery on top in copper metallic thread and some hand stitching with beads to finish off. My leaves are not ferns but I was inspired by the brown seeds that grow on the underside of fern leaves I used brown wool to sew the french knots for the seeds For one of the leaves I sewed on brown sequins with beads in copper thread. I gave the sequins a different look by distressing them with my heat gun after sewing These are the finished leaves, each one is different. If you want, you can click on the photo to see them in more detail. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and have a go some time - it is a fun technique and you can decorate your leaves any way you like
3” x 4 ¼” 7.5 x 10.5 cm 9" x 11" framed 23 x 28cm framed SOLD www.chursinoff.com/kirsten/
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A lot of my work is inspired by nature so it seemed only fitting to make it the theme of my next workshop at Rustic and White in Shre...
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Hand embroidery, mixed media on grey silk. Tomatillo husks and cardamom pods stitched on.
My work is inspired by the natural world. I specialize in meticulous hand embroidery and machine embroidery. I focus on the micro world of a mossy stone or barnacled shell.
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The art of textiles has been passed down for generations…including mine. My great-grandfather was a tailor who married a seamstress who gave birth to my grandmother, an awning maker who had my father who was an upholsterer, who married my mother, a gifted hand-embroiderer, who had me. I have been a graphic designer for over four decades and although I’ve long felt an affinity for fibers and threads, I only began fabric collage in 2016. How in the world did that happen?
For the Tag Tuesday theme 'Goosey' Textile tag, fabric crayons, white cotton, space dyed threads, hand embroidery. My little goose is hand appliqued white cotton with cheesecloth wing. Measures 5.7 x 12.8 cm
Where did February go? Three quarters over and some of the worst winter weather in centuries. I started the shudio clearing with enthusiasm but am ashamed to admit that I havn't touched it since my last post. Life has been busy, what can I say? Mary Sleigh's workshop continued to be very enjoyable and I have amassed an encouraging set of samples. The workshops culminated in the making of a book to hold the samples. We explored complementary colours and analagous colours. (Excuse the tackings) We explored creating drama with cretan stitch. Seed sttich was used to create a sense of movement. All of the samples were fun to make but I really enjoyed the square above with suffolk puffs and french knots. French knots are one of my most favourite stitches. I need to photograph the book and the signatures that I've made to carry the samples and will blog that later. Life has been so hectic that on the days when the light has been good I have been busy with classes or out and about and have missed taking photographs. Earlier this month I did a workshop with Trudi Wood making a Take 20 quilt using fabrics from clothing belonging to my mum, our friend Grace, Stewart, another friend and some handdyes. The quilt top went together surprisingly quickly but I still have a border to add and then Trudi is going to quilt it for me. The hardest part of the Take 20 is arranging the blocks. It doesn't seem to matter which way you place them you always get portions of the same fabrics in close proximity. Both my mum's and my friend Grace's pinnies are in this top so it feels very special. When I look at the strawberry fabric and the red fabric with the red and white trim on it I can smell scones cooking and see my mum making cream horns and trifle for Sunday tea and visitors. Sadly Mum does not even recognise the fabrics anymore or even remember that she used to wear aprons. Yesterday we had a play day and some discharging and printing was attempted but I havn't had chance to take any photos of that yet so remind me to show you later. Today I have done a thoroughly enjoyable workshop with Sarah Edwards who I know from the Contemporary Quilt Group. (I didn't realise I knew her till I walked in the class and recognised her). Sarah loves creating surface texture on her quilts and we played the whole day, manipulating fabrics and creating new ones. This was a technique based workshop and there was no expectation to leave with a finished product. Sarah used many different techniques to create her quilts and I particularly wanted to explore slashing and tucks. This is a sample piece, unfinished, and needs further exploration but basically it is several layers of fabric with rows of stitching and then chenille style slashing made to reveal varying lower layers. I love that the fabrics fray and indeed, the top cotton layer frayed with abandon! This piece started out as two pieces of fabric with pintucks stitched in and then the fun commenced! Fabrics were joined and cut and turned and joined and cut and inserted and had Somerset points added. I had so much fun and from the squeals going on around me so did everyone else! The day shot past and left me wanting to do more, the sign of an excellent workshop. I have another piece of the blue fabric with pintucks in and I want to combine that with layers and slashing so I hope I get chance to do that soon. Sarah was a great tutor. She shared her processes and then left us to play giving help and advice as we required it. I learnt to make Somerset points too. Who knew they were so straightforward? It's all in the folding. Tomorrow, glutton for punishment, I have another workshop (I know!) with Wendy my partner in adventures who has moved her blog to Wordpress. We will be making a cutting mat bag so I hope I can stay awake all day. I am still on a high from today's excitement so I may hit the wall rather early tomorrow. Watch this space! Sunday is the last day of Snowdrop week at Easton Walled Garden near Grantham so if you live near enough you might fancy making the trip to enjoy them and the other Spring flowers that are raising their heads. The weather forecast isn't too bad for Sunday so we may see you there. After slaving over fabric and sewing machines all week I think some fresh air is in order. PS While I think of it, if you live within reach of Grantham, the Embroiderers Guild are thinking of encouraging a group to start for local people. There will be an introductory meeting at Stitchcraft Studio on 6 March. I will try and remember to come back and post the times up but you can ring Stitchcraft for details on 01476 512790.
The art of textiles has been passed down for generations…including mine. My great-grandfather was a tailor who married a seamstress who gave birth to my grandmother, an awning maker who had my father who was an upholsterer, who married my mother, a gifted hand-embroiderer, who had me. I have been a graphic designer for over four decades and although I’ve long felt an affinity for fibers and threads, I only began fabric collage in 2016. How in the world did that happen?
A series of seashore landscapes. Each one is slightly different. In celebration of the beauty of the Canadian West Coast. The background fabrics are secured with sewing and details are added with embroidery, beading, couching yarns and free-motion machine embroidery. SOLD 3” x 4 ½” 9" x 11" framed www.chursinoff.com/kirsten/
CATchwork friends. Imagine them singing. Substitute the word stray for stay. And consider a bit of swaying. alternative link
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