I’m hoping to finish this mosaic-pavement kind of construction referred to in the previous post on Jessica Hardy’s Stitch club workshop – only about 25 more little pieces to be sewn on ! and then a border or edge – and I’ve now decided on what to do.

In addition though, in the last 10 days I’ve been following more ideas that emerged after Jessica’s workshop, but because of a maddening domain problem, haven’t been able to access my blog, until today when at last all is well.

I’m currently spending a few minutes, or half and hour most days in another of those daily creativity exercise thingies with SAQA, similar to but shorter than last year’s 100 days one. This runs Jan 20th – Mar 20th. I haven’t had a particular theme this time, just showing a little of whatever I’ve been doing, including experimenting with some ideas from that workshop, like the ones pictured below. They’re made using fabric or Mylar, snippets of these things and threads, sandwiched between layers of plastic which are then ironed to capture the bits and pieces.

Among the earliest results with this technique, are threads plus a square of Mylar (L) and fabric (R) sandwiched between layers, which were ironed over between Teflon sheets. The Mylar one buckled and lost it’s sheen with the heat, but a later sample in which I ironed around the edges only, preserved the beautiful mirror like surface. Their simplicity is satisfying.

The next two images are based on the traditional patchwork block A Square in A Square, surrounded by snippets of fabric and threads:

Using one of my favourite repeat units/blocks, I did this orange neon fabric square in a square with orange threads in the background. It’s ~6.5cm sq.