Monday 6 April 2015

MOMA 100 days of making project

Today is the first day of the Museum of Modern Arts 100 Days of Making - anyone can join in and pledge to make something or create something for 100 days. My project will be to stitch/embroider snippets of my daily life onto postcards so that at the end of the 100 days I shall have a fab diary/record of the period from which to base future work on. I will be embroidering found objects, snippets of paper and fabric on blank postcards or just adding to used postcards. I will be posting photos over on Instagram where I can be found at @kirstyjmason and my hashtags is #stitchedsnippets with the project hashtag of #the100dayproject. Here's Day 1 - a feather found on a walk today ...

 

 

Wednesday 1 April 2015

Moths ...

A little peep at my work this week. These pieces have evolved from my Field Notes theme. The moth has been embroidered using a stump work technique and sits on a stitched paper background, mounted on a polished oak base. I have a little series of these on the go at the moment - I will share them as they get finished. I have been trying to get some decent photos of this today - the close ups seem ok but the full piece ones haven't come out too well - why does my camera never take what I see!!!