Completed project at last.

Che Guevara just needs a press and he will be off to the framers.    I think Rhodri is happy with it, a man of few words!  A comment on how long I have spent making it though!
Tonight I am out with the girls from work, we are celebrating a 30th birthday.
Tomorrow I am on an Embroiderers' Guild workshop, with Lynda Monks.  This is the second workshop she has done for us and I am really looking forward to it.  It has meant that I cant go to the FET meeting in Cottenham though. 
Need now to start thinking what to stitch next.

Some hand stitching at last!

I have at last managed to finish machine stitching the background.  All that it left to stitch now is the phrase.  The translation is:-
' Wherever death surprises us, it will be well received as long as our battle cry is heard'.
It will not have a binding attatched, as my son Rhodri, intends having it framed.
The update on my run in with Orange is after spending nearly one hour on the phone to my bank, my money which they were unathorised to take, has been given back to me!! I dont know what it has cost me in regards to the phone calls and visits to the bank.
My problem with Ebay has also been sorted, just need Mitch's Social Worker to help me sort out the problem I have with his gas bill from when he had his own flatl.  They want to charge him for the previous tennant and for 3 months after he moved out.   I seem to be spending valuble creating time, on the phone at the moment and not in my playroom!

At last.......

Although the sun has been shining, I didn't get to see that much of it this morning/early afternoon, as I was at the hospital with Mitch.  He had to be assessed to get back on his medication he used to take a few years ago, for his ADHD, I hope it works.
I have managed to get some more machine stitching done to the background of my Che panel this evening.  Hopefully another couple of hours and the sky will be finished then it will be time to complete the foreground.

New thread.

I have lost my get up and go this week, as the cough that one of my little cherubs  gave me last week, is keeping me awake at night, so feeling very drained.

                                        
 Last week when I went to Craft Arena, Denise had got in some new threads- Aurifil 50, 100% cotton, just had to try them as I have read about them on some of the blogs I read.  I chose colours to use on my Che piece and I love them, they have not broken even though they are stitching through gesso, paint and the usual three layers.  I will be buying more of them in the future. 

Yet another little book for our Regional Day sales table, a different style this time.

Another month completed!!!!

 One advantage of starting work at Midday, is that I had a good light for auditioning threads ready for  working on the sky.

February has flown by, and I have managed to keep my journal up to date.

Lots of hearts as it is the month for romance.

I have also enrolled on Louise's on line Altered Jewellery Course.  She does some great work and I have a fancy to try out Steampunk- I kept hearing that word and not really known what it was about until tonight.

Flown by.

 We were invited to lunch at Chris's house, lunch ended up being quite late, and as I was sitting eating, I watched the sun setting behind the trees.  Just had to dash out with my camera, to capture it. I love bare trees against a winters sky.

I have worked on my Che panel again, I have been itching to get on with him.  Tomorrow I will be starting to stitch the sky, not quite sure how I am going to do this, I need to sleep on it!
I can't believe how quickly the half term has flown by, I am back to work tomorrow, but Kezzy has another Baker Day

As you can see from the picture above, I have now finished machine stitching Che's face and applied his face and hat/hair to the background. I will now continue with working on the background.
 BUT, tomorrow I have to start getting ready for Textiles in Focus.  I am going on Saturday with Nickie.  In the morning I am doing a workshop with Marion Murphy and then demonstrating in the afternoon.

Che continued.

I was not happy with Che's face after washing out the water soluble film, even though I had stitched it in a frame, the Egyptian cotton had wrinkled and he was going to need Botox.  So now I am trying Evolon.  I have traced straight onto the fabric and so far the stitching is not puckering. (fingers and everything else crossed!)

Kezzy in the meantime has been dong yet MORE art homework.  After making a sample page yesterday in her sketchbook, she is now transferring the patterns that she likes onto her scraffitti.

She is still working on it as I type at nearly Midnight!

Back to Che.

In the kitchen to day, I cooked up a batch of my favourite pickle- lemon and mustard seed, great with cheese.  My grandsons came round this afternoon, we have so been busy the last couple of weekends that I hadn't manged to see them.  This evening, I manged to finish stitching Che's face and now it is soaking to get rid of the water soluble film.

That gave me a chance to start machine stitching the foreground and cutting out the hat and hair.

Rhodri has been in to see how it is progressing and is happy with it so far:0)
Tomorrow night it is our EG meeting, we have Alistair Macleod from the Hand  and Lock company as our speaker.

Che Guevara 2

This is how far I have got with Che  mark 2.  It is double A3 in size.  I have applied the different colour paint in layers, allowing each coat to dry in between.  I shall remove the freezer paper mask tomorrow, when  the final layer I have just applied has dried.

Here is a photo of my painted background.  I need to apply some more black to the foreground before I can do anything else.  That will hopefully be this evening, today it is off to Art Van Go for our Open Day :0)

And now for something completely different.

 As it was time to take the bull by the horns and get started on my next project, out came the Dye-na-Flow paints.  My son Rhodri, has asked me to make this poster he has into a textile wall hanging. AGGGHHHHH!!!!!

So I have sloshed some paint onto some fabric and now waiting to see how it dries.