Holmwood rosette cont.

So all the pieces are wrapped and ready to join in. This is the sum total of the current artwork. All the bits fitted into one hand to be carried up to the studio where the iron lives. I go any smaller, I'll have to issue magnifiers.

Holmwood in pieces

And pressed, assembled, testing the fit

Astonishingly, considering the mirror image snafus and hopeful corrections, it actually fits as it spozed to.

These pieces felt huge in comparison to the last work.

Iced coffee and Georgette Heyer on the patio now while I gloat a bit.

Holmwood Rosette

So here's today's adventure. After a few thrills and spills, involving  minor skirmishes with mirror-image pieces which got mysteriously stitched inside out, we're under way.

Before I started, I thought this would be a piece of cake compared to the last one. Famous last words.

You absolutely can not woolgather while you're doing this. It's like the toddler of the stitching world, up to something the minute your attention strays. But I do like this color family, and hope I survive it.

Here's tomorrow's pieces, ready to cover. Or possibly recut and fit and stitch, we'll see. This is the outer edge of the piece.

Since my fabric bits are only a few square inches, I have to improvise here and there to get enough going on the colors I need, an added conundrum. And it's a hitch if I ruin one, when there's no substitute for it.

But there's no waste! The bits I discard are about an eighth of an inch wide and not much longer. This is the Art of the Frugal if ever there was one.

And it's great to wake up ready to rush through breakfast, dishes, plant care, all that, so as to get to the project of the day.

EPP in progress.

Sounds medical, but it's English paper piecing.

This is the progress to date. It's the stage where you tack the fabric squares onto the templates, to make neat patches.

After I get all the patches set up like this, I can arrange them in a design I like, before overstitching the patches together.

At that point, you avoid stitching through the templates, then once all the piecing is complete, you take out the tacking and release the templates to use again.

These are 1.5 inches square, pretty much dictated by the printed designs.

And they're definitely of the just one more school of  work.  So this is the latest technique I'm learning.  Very portable, the whole lot fits into a medium sized bag.

Announcing a new rabbit hole

Too hot in the studio to weave, a bit humid for knitting, so until cooler weather,  I need a portable rabbit-, I mean artform. One I can do in little sections, anywhere.

And thanks to Kate Jackson, the YouTube presenter of The Last Homely House East of the Sea, which I love and recommend, I'm trying my hand at English paper piecing.

Me, the nonquilter. This is the sort of paper piecing where you remove the paper templates at the end, for reuse.

I like working in parts that will be incorporated into something bigger, a lot of my art works that way. And reusing the templates appeals, too.

I don't have a fabric stash, never use it much. But I realized I have a rayon vest already printed patchwork style, giving me a lot of patterns, and I haven't worn it for ages.

So here's the vest

And here are the patches cut out,  and sorted into like designs,plus scraps,just in case.

And here's the kit of patches, template and card stock ready to go. Needle, thread, scissors, done.

So we'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, I've added e.p.p. to my esoteric fiber vocabulary.