My regular readers know I browse with Pinterest probably weekly, and most times upload a few pins. Particular things that inspire me, and when they do, I pin them, not to copy but be some kind of reminder of something that struck me. I might save something for example on my ‘Holes’ board, but it doesn’t mean the image is necessarily one of actual holes, just that it made me think of holes of some kind, and set me thinking about what I could do in fabric and stitch with this idea.

I’m also trying to establish the habit of doing something, a small sample or a quick diagram aide de memoire, creative but quick, every day before I do other things in the studio. So here are several more:

• The iron was a bit hot even using the teflon sheet, so both nylon fabrics wrinkled.
• Pressing hard did not smoothe anything out and set wrinkles around the stitching in the orange.
• So was this a failure? Definitely not – I’ve learned more about how this material handles, and there’s interesting potential in that.

• A number of the presentations I’ve saved on my pinterest board are some style of 3D fabric form, and in the Clarissa Calleson workshop in Stitch Club last year, I was reminded of how stitch texture can be added to them.
• These 3 small rolls ~8cm to which I added a little stitchery, were enough to tell me the stuffing needs to be much firmer so that the shape doesn’t collapse.
• The non-fray edge is nice to work with – but frayed edges are interesting, too …
• Rolled fine leather shapes might be good to try.

And the third for this week is an exploration of an interesting texture I pinned, of what I think is a paper+stitch work, by mixed media artist Takahiko Hayashi: