I've got eight days done of my new daily stitching and as usual it felt uncomfortable at the start, part of that was because I wasn't at home and I wasn't happy with the threads I had brought with. I was sure that there would be an order for more thread made as soon as we got home. Then when I got home I looked through my rather extensive collection of thread and found plenty that will work just fine. I'm using the last group of 35 inch silk squares that were hand dyed stitched shibori. There were six of them altogether, four were the same pattern with slight variations in color.
The one on the left is the one that I had multiples of. They were backed with flannel and cut into four inch squares and are ready to use.
In the lower right corner you can see the seven balls of thread I found to use.
#1-#8,It hasn't gotten a name yet, any ideas?
Gelli prints #75-#81
The Weekly Leaf
I tried a different way of printing for this week. I read about spreading paint onto a plexi glass plate, lightly laying the fabric over it and then putting a drawing on paper over that and tracing the drawing.
I almost did that, I spread the paint out on a gelli plate instead because my plexi glass plate is hiding. I found that the amount of paint makes a big difference, also the amount of pressure I applied while tracing.
This is the leaf I traced.
On the top is the one I used, bottom left is the one with too much paint and pressure.
Week #12
I've now got the first twelve weeks stitched together, also the gelli prints.
