Me this week: I’m away next week so lots of prep and planning to do! Also me: I could hand embroider that complicated pattern on the vase but using the colours I selected for my limpet studies

What’s your sign?

Tiny Clanger

This morning I’m reviewing some #beading/#Embroidery studio studies using a range of techniques and stitches. These were mostly inspired by the #BenthicZone OceanFloor.

Squirrel teeth!

Absolutely loving this new merch design from New Bedford Whaling Museum store.whalingmuseum.org/en-gb/produc...

Here is my current favourite. Based on the remains found in the wrecked 16th c Basque whale ship at Red Bay Canada. Felt and organza, freehand machine embroidery.

A couple of #WorkInProgress #watercolour #Sketches from my trip to #Fife #Cellardyke last month. The shoreline near the tidal pool and some seaweed from the rocky shore just down from the Chinese Takeaway.

Too hot to work at home today so decamped to the air conditioned cafe @sainsburycentre.bsky.social #Norwich where I did a bit of #BayeuxStitch #embroidery inspired by the glorious architecture

Tidily mounted this round fabric embroidered piece as a brooch. I quite like it.

Sampling and learning new techniques are key parts of my practice. This is part learning how to read #BeadWeaving patterns, part seeing what colours work well together and part being sad I can’t get the tension right so it look neat/even. Sigh.

Thank you. Became somewhat obsessed by Alister Hardy’s Great Waters and his 1925-27 Discovery Expedition on the sustainability of the Southern Whale fishery

Love these - fun to embroider too!

Five house sparrows enjoying the weird flowering spikes from the big plant in the garden. Can you see them all?

And I made my own #embroidery based on my visit using authentic(ish) wool and stitches charting my voyage. This was mostly sewn on board the ship.

I saw the #BayeuxTapestry last year and the thing I did before I saw it that really enriched the experience for me was buying Tanya Bentham’s book on Bayeux Stitch and learning how to do the stitches. It gave me a link and appreciation of the work and the people (women) making it.

First and last words hand embroidered satin stitch. The other words are backstitch (the boat is machine embroidery). It’s on plain undyed cotton calico. It’s about 20 by 30 cm. Not made to be worn but for display as a panel on a wall.

After a few false starts and much unpicking I think this is pretty much finished (Hurrah!). Had planned to machine embroider it but the text didn’t look right. V pleased with the satin stitch first and last words. #RedBay series #Shallop

Making sure the hedgehogs have food and more importantly water during this heatwave.

13 years ago today I visited one of the strangest places I’ve ever been to. Any guesses? (May be clues in the alt text)

And nearly finished. A couple of quick colour samples to see if I prefer the black or dark red. Still not sure. 🤔

Very keen to get this finished before the heat hits tomorrow. This light thread was much harder to satin stitch neatly but I like the effect.

Oooh. That seems to have worked!

Finished most of the text on my Red Bay Shallop embroidery but (for some reason I know I’ll regret) I’ve decided to do the first and last words in satin stitch. One letter completed and I think it will look pretty good (but take forever!)

Ever get that feeling you are being watched?

35 years ago I went to Egypt and bought this rather tacky plastic fan. (I did lots of other stuff whilst I was there) I am very much appreciating it at the moment.

What’s on the hoop this morning? Hand embroidering text onto this piece inspired by the 16th C whaleboat found at Red Bay Labrador (the boat is freehand machine embroidery for a more sketchy effect).

Thank you so much for the heads up (iPhone, through a window)

And then there were three. Other hedgehog up by the badly pruned shrub

A better photo.