Exploding or Explosion Books

I have been intending to make this video for months and finally this week I got round to doing it.  I had promised my grandson that I would make the video for him.

I hadn't realised when I started the recording that the zoom lens jumped forward a little bit so the video was rather close up. As a consequence some of the visuals were up in the air and off camera.   I have left some of the close up footage and re-recorded the bits that had disappeared.   There's a bit of a funny jump in the middle!

There are also subtitles which are worth putting on even if you think you don't need them, as sometimes the written explanation is better than my actual words!

I forgot to say in the video that if you make a book with more than three squares, every time you add a square the peak or valley needs to alternate.  In the video the squares are peak, valley, peak - so the next one would be valley.

I hope you will give these books a try.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Interruption

After I had sorted out my map pieces I interrupted myself by signing up for an online course with Sally Tyrie through Fibre Arts Take Two.  FATT courses are really well filmed and presented and this is the third one I've taken.

The appeal of this one, Visual Narratives - Print, Paint, Stitch with Sally Tyrie, was that it incorporated photography, collage and collograph plates.  If you are a regular reader you know that I take lots of photographs but rarely do anything with them creatively.  Sally talks about altering the photographs with a photo editor and layering the photos digitally.  She also talks about printing out the altered photos and layering them up manually.  Sounds like my sort of course.

It was my plan to leave the theme of canals alone for a while but the topic really fitted the Visual Narratives concept.

Today I'm going to show you some of the original photos and what I've done with them in the app Snapseed using my iPad.

See if you can spot which of the original photos feature in each of the following:

Snapseed is very addictive!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Modus Operandi

Can you tell I've been reading (rather too much) detective fiction lately?

How do you approach your work?  What is your MO?  Do you start one piece of work and not start another until you've finished it?  Or do you work in a series?  Or work on several unrelated pieces at the same time?

How do you store your WIPs - works in progress?

I've been storing my latest projects in a crate!

It was hard to tell what there was so I decided to lay it all out on the table.

All of these items are unfinished.  In fact some of them are hardly started.   This is several odd pieces of fabric collaged together and stitched into using only running stitch.

These books are possibly finished but you can never tell!

This is a book made from one piece of fabric and a cover.  I described the making of it in my Summer School post.

This is a hanging book or a hanging or a book!  Who knows!

A fabric collage

Another collage made from random strips left over from making the collage above.

This was an experiment with a piece of garden plastic grid.  Not sure at all where this is going.

And finally lots of little fabric collages.

I laid them out on the table a couple of weeks ago and since then I have finished this.

I've shown you the back as well so you can see all the stitching more clearly.

I think at the moment I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of work I've set myself.  Plus I signed up for an online course which is distracting me from this body of work.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice