stitched islands
a fter completing two demanding pieces of work I have been taking some time to explore and play with other bits and pieces. I like to have an ongoing, unplanned piece which i can easily pick up and put down - these often develop organically as experiments or samplers, but they also provide thinking space and time to reflect and ponder my current stitch doodle is vaguely planned as a book cover, I took it along to a workshop on “stitching round and round” with janet edmonds - this was about the works she produced in response to a 53 mile circular walk, completed in stages with a fellow textile artist i haven’t done the walk but used the workshop to begin my own stitched version of the route as a part of my current stitch doodle - it fits in quite well as the piece seems to have become a collection of stitched islands with Janet’s encouragement i found myself becoming more adventurous with my choice of colour - i tend to stay with toning variegated, subdued combinations, but this tim
