Challenges, Bring them On!

ClothPaperScissors has had two recent challenges one time consuming and one quick one.

The multi-media 6x6 inch square involved stamping with paint on linen using hand-made stamps by Gail Walker onefinepencil@blogspot.com, pencil eraser tips, a clay tool we used for dots and dashes. Then machine free hand embroidery a new skill for me. This was not as easy as it looked I sat frozen in front of the piece begging Gail to just let me put down a few lines. She is infinately patient and reassuring and when I finally put the needle through the piece I was off. Then hand embroidery a skill taught to me by me maternal grandmother on Woolworth cotton pillowcases in the 60"s. Grandma Hazel Koplin would of been proud my back was as neat as the front. As  my preferred media is still beading I included myself as a tiny bee bead.

MEANDERING THROUGH THE GARDEN

The second challenge was a 4x4"  Mulberry paper face drawing only using markers, pens and pencils.

SHE PAINTS 

As a bead artist these challenges stretch my skills and doing them with a friend makes it just that much more fun.

Yeti-dom

Here lives a couple

In the land of Yeti-dom 

He's green and she's gold

Reclycled J. Crew sweater with wool felt face belly and claws. Attached eyes and animal noses. Pattern from the imagination of Gail Walker and made in her Art studio. He is an older man made last week and she was just born yesterday. They are so soft and so cuddly!! 

Jacket completed

Worked with Gail  Walker on the last weekend in August on my Angelheart Flax jacket project. It was a piece of stamped linen a  orange brown large leaf, maroon small Japanese buds and a platinum rat. I then added prints-Asian and a crane print too and did embroidery free-style on the sewing machine- the leaf was a metal stamp discarded from a paleontology museum for the outline and free stitching inside.
I learned to use the serger to finish edges and that was quite fun!!

The last photo depicts the serged piece that wass added to the front two pockets and the similar material was added to the collar as well. It came out wonderful and I have worn it out to dinner and to work.

So a jacket given to me by a friend that I had just keeping at the YWCA pool for when I was cold is now a featured art piece in my wardrobe.