Inspiration

The fiber club met today. The participants practice stitchery outside my wheelhouse, so inspire me. One member remembered me from the cyanotype workshop I attended a few weeks ago and brought a blouse she sewed using fabric she dyed using cyanotype and the iris from her garden.

This is in the neighborhood of what I want to do using cyanotype.

Another member showed us these stitched art projects: reels of appliqued and stitched vignettes of a sort. One reel was inspired by drawings her granddaughter did about the local zoo.

Another reel is the result of a YouTube "class" (Roxy's Journal of Stitchery) she has been taking, where the instructor supplies periodic prompts. This series is "Down the Garden Path".

She also sewed together samples of eco-dyeing.

Ditto some old fabric samples she picked up at our local Johnny Appleseed Festival.

I'm not about to become a stitcher like this, but I'm thinking of how I have been wanting to weave a diary of sorts. Little samples may be just the ticket.