Chapter 8 Wrapped frames and paper pulp

this chapter required a series of wrapped frames which would then be dipped in paper pulp and then stitched.i decided to go off at a tangent and make shaped frames from wire, then wrapped inside with wire, old lace, large buttonhole stitch and letters of course.

for the 'E' i crocheted some fine nylon thread randomly and trapped some gun caps

i tend to shy away from the general square shapes and decided to make some small random shapes but join them together. here we have wire with trapped plastic, stitch, knitted strip with trapped plastic letters, bound torn strip and scrim.

so here is my lobster after adding paper pulp and stitch.

'L' with added buttonhole stitch and spiders web, 'O' looping and linking threads with added paint on the paper and between the lace threads, 'B' i wanted to keep quite plain so added thread and paint on paper.

'S' more random buttonhole stitch, 'T' i left, 'E' added stitch to the gun caps after sprayed black, 'R' i updated the insertions found on Gros point lace.

Finally with this one i just added some more pieces of sweet wrapper stitched in place like a repair. Good old Haribo!

We Won !!!!!!

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery has won the Art Fund Prize 2012! Well done everyone!

Lets go back to Chapter 5!

it has taken quite a while for me to do this chapter, time to devote to it, waiting for devoré paste then fabric, then i decided to buy a proper screen for screen printing as i knew i would use it again and ........ So here goes and by the way Art Van Go don't stock 'Fibre Etch' anymore as they say it was too harsh! so firstly in #1 i used the devoré paste freehand in the top one and with a 'Thermofax' screen on the lower one. both on cotton organdie to create actual holes.

# 2 for some reason i had a whole collection of Whaleys devoré fabric samples so i tested my screen on these and it was quite interesting to see the different results. so top left is cotton/poly jersey, poly/rayon and linen,silk/viscose satin, then next row down from left silk/viscose Georgette, wool/viscose/nylon, poly/viscose and finally poly/cotton. i decided to buy some of the poly/viscose as this had given a really striking effect.

#3 shows my screen in use with a paper template as a mask between the screen and the fabric, the paste has made the fabric transparent and the brightly coloured squares is the plastic table protector. i decided whilst waiting for various deliveries that i would prepare templates and cut outs ready, so i worked with images i had used before for previous chapters.all the pieces are about A4 in size.

#4 once the paste is dry (and it can take quite a while) it is ironed on a gentle setting till it turns brown. sometimes the really brown areas were more difficult to remove than the less brown. i found the best way to remove it was to immediately put it in water and gently remove the burnt fibres which smelt like crumpets! these procedures were carried out in well ventilated areas.

#5 and voila a devoréd image. this one i use torn strips of paper and my cloud images from before (looks a bit Matissey)

#6 i used a paper cut mask of the image below, using both the positive and negative pieces of paper. i think i got slightly carried away with this method and i am certainly smitten with the effect.

my husband said to me 'what on earth do you want to take a picture of that for?'

#8 i used letter cut outs and paper offcuts for this one. it is also the same as image #4 where i had stitched a zig-zag in the top right creating a wonderful texture, might have to try some more of this

#9 i then added colour to a couple of pieces, the above i had used stitch, paper masks and thread masks to create the images. i wanted to colour in isolated areas so i used Koh i nor dyes and painted them on (not sure how fast they are! but it achieved the effect i wanted.

#10 just adding a bit of colour. i am keen to continue with these perhaps dyeing them and over printing but at the moment i feel i have done enough?!

Pockets

 

For Chapter 7 i made a series of experimental pockets using transparent layers. the first one seen above and below i cheated with because i got the idea from a lovely 1800's dress which had this type of puff all over the sleeves and hem so i tried copying it with organdie on calico and inserting a piece left over from a previous project. 

 

above you can see the back of the pocket puff is open.

 

the next two i made above used various found items. top one completely enclosing the lolly sticks and the lower one using strip pockets with the contents sticking out.

 

the above pockets enclose metal frame pieces from some found glasses. i used Lutrador and wood burning tool and then stitched through with fishing line.

 

next one used a piece of transparent 'Corex' stitched onto clear plastic with plastic ties inserted through the channels.

 

 i found this lens from a pair of sunglasses and wanted to use it as an enclosed pocket with a drawing of an eye on tracing paper behind it. then at work for some odd reason we were talking about Kitty fisher's eye which is a glass bead associated with lace makers and to those of you who know about pockets: Lucy Locket lost her pocket and Kitty Fisher found it!

again above using a piece of found wire i enclosed it in a piece of plastic bag.

 

above more found plastic and paper.

 

i have been looking at a lot of typefaces recently and the above pocket is a play on the phrase 'out of pocket' where i cut the letters out from organdie and put the pieces inside the pocket.

 

using the pockets in bubble wrap to contain letters

i am finding this new blogger difficult to say the least so details for my last 3 pockets will be here at the end! so the 3 white pockets in the picture above the one above! are some folded tracing paper pockets and a small book of pockets made from organza. the final group of pockets made from my favourite garden fleece use letters from a take away coffee cup slotted into stitched pockets. now to see if my devore paste has dried yet!

The Chronicle Project

5 May 2012 the chronicle of a day

concertina open,view from the back

And my Liebster Award winners are......

at last i have chosen 5 of my favourite blogs to give The Liebster Award to, and they are.... as she opens the golden envelope:

Pat at 'Altering Thoughts' 
Chris at 'Chrissy Threads'
Karin at 'i of the needle'
 Anna at 'Booklike'
Joanne at 'Whalers'

Chapter 6 - playing with silk fibres

this chapter called for suspending bits in silk 'paper'. i have used a silk tussah fibre for the backgrounds and laid in various dyed silk fibres, organza and paper. 

 

above piece with added newsprint

 

with the above i made a sheet of blue silk paper with added bamboo fibres then cut out some cloud shapes and placed them in another sheet.

the above piece i made a sheet with black and natural fibres then cut out a repeat of oblongs and then used the original piece within another giving areas that were thinner and more transparent.

i then used the cut out pieces within a totally black piece

then i made a couple of sheets and pressed them into objects to make them 3D, top a plastic spoon and the lower one part of an old keyboard. not really getting to grips with this new fangled 'blogger' things a bit out of sink! so last one i worked some darning stitches onto the black garden fleece and then suspended within another piece. decided all a bit messy but not as much as devore paste!! but more of that later.

i will post my 5 award winners soon!