The chaos part of Chaos to Calm is almost finished. I have one thin grey cord left which I need to decide about. Do I add it or not?
Total chaos (on the left) unravels with less chaos - represented by thinner cords.
As the chaos unravels things become more ordered.
I have finished stitching the fragments on which represent order.
I'm excited to work on the calm side of this piece. Hopefully it's going to be finished this week.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
My Chaos to Calm piece is coming on slowly - mostly because I haven't really buckled down to it.
Since I last posted about it I have stamped some unreadable text on the dyed calcico using acrylic paint. Because I wanted some of the cord to fall off the edge of the piece I put the partially dyed calico onto a piece of felt with black cotton poplin backing. It's rare for me to think about how a piece will be finished before I even start!
Once the back was finished it had enough weight for me to be able to stitch down the thick cords.
I wrapped some of the thick cord with torn fabric and stitched that on over the top.
I placed the small fragments I had made.
I made some different thicknesses of cord using the zigzag stitch on my machine.
I stitched the fragments on using cross stitch. I have now started adding the thinner dyed cord.
Once the thinner cord is attached, I shall be adding more fragments and then the thin machine cords.
I'm really pleased with how it's going. I've set myself a deadline of April 11th to finish the piece. I'll let you know how that goes!
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
After several sessions at Littleheath Barn trying out techniques and processes for the Maps & More workshop, we are now looking at making final pieces.
One of the things I've wanted to do this year is challenge myself to make different work from my usual cut it up, sew it back together wall hangings.
So this week I tore up fabric I had dyed and printed and bonded the strips to a piece of calico - not really such a different process!
However this time I made a curved piece based on the shape of the Grand Canal on a map of Venice.
I had used breakdown printing to print this large piece of fabric. Instead of putting thickened dye on the screen I had only used Manutex through a stencil of a map of Venice. I used a coloured thickened dye to print the screen.
I had to hand stitch the small inner curve as I couldn't get it under the machine foot.
Then I cut the curve for the other side and machined the pieces together.
I put some felt and a backing fabric and machined down the 'canal'.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
