Scrim and silk

The photograph that we have used as a design source for our hanging has two blue pipes running down at the sides. The colour of these is a good contrast with the greys and greens of the stone.

I have been working on the texture of the peeling paint on these pipes. We decided to put indigo dyed scrim over indigo dyed silk. The photo above is for the left hand side, this is a narrow pipe.

This one opposite is supposed to be wider, at the bottom you can just see where I am doing my version of drawn thread work!! Mostly I'm using simple running stitch.

More sewing

This fabric is for the left hand side of the hanging, running from top to bottom. I made a very light grey flour paste resist piece but when we pinned it up with the rest of the fabrics at the workshop last week we could see it was too light. These fabrics are a darker grey, but they have had to be divided up to fit.

However we thought we could make use of this and make a feature of the seams by making them look like mortar between large stones, like you would find in the columns of a colonnade. I have been couching down some chenille to try to achieve this.

Marian is going to sew a lager version of the lace angel on to the grey flour paste resist so the angel is gesturing inwards. I think its going to look very good, but you will have to wait and see.

I've just dyed this piece of cotton for the back of the hanging, its dyed in a jam jar, well a bucket, then I tied and capped some areas and dyed it with indigo and finally it was dyed with weld. Its quite large, it just fits on my spare double bed.

We have started sewing.

We have started sewing, but first we did look at our design again and all the fabrics and made some adjustments. The photo above is the slightly more refined version. Suzanne is getting on really well with the lace angel as you can see by the next photo.

Here Lana is considering what threads to use.

Different people are taking different parts home to work on. We shall be meeting again in just under four weeks to put all the separate pieces together .