Text(iles) - Olwyn's Gourd

Olwyn and I played around a bit with her gourd-design since its a theme in her embroidery. In the second one, the O is a gourd and the U suggests a vessel. I've added a photo of a very old gourd I have which was repaired while it was being made. It has since cracked but it is about 50 years old. Olwyn, I would love to see your work on this theme when it is complete!

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Text(iles) - The Exploded Letter

It's amazing how letters get really exciting when you start playing with two colours and shifting them around.

Now cut them out of fabric, add stitching, embroidery and embellishments and WOW!

Ivy: Phillipa Jackson (here you can see the process); Borders: Dodie; India: Jo Faulkes; Cat: Janet Humber; Liz - Liz Frampton; Daisy: Tina Sharpe. Will the people whose names I missed please let me know who they are so that I can acknowledge you - Letters, Ken, JKW 

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Text(iles) in Fareham

I was invited to give a one day workshop to embroiderers on adding text to fabric.
As I'm a bit of a fabric junkie, I was enthusiastic, although a little apprehensive about how the embroiderers would receive me. Usually people just use a font these days and feel fine about that. How to show another way of letter making?
We were using cut paper as a medium for designing letters to be translated into fabric and stitchery. Here are two of the methods we explored.

"The Exploded Letter"

and PAX which is made up of cut strips, then traced and re-cut from paper.

There are also many other ways of designing lettering or text for fabric, but these two are really good for chunky letters that can be cut out.

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