Taking photographs

Matt, our nephew in law does professional photography. I can't show you the results yet but here he is taking photo's of the hanging in St Nicholas Church yard.

He took some of the hanging on the ground, it was rather muddy, so I took a sheet of plastic.

And some of it standing up, on Tessa's copper pipe stand.

The weather wasn't too unkind to us, we managed to avoid the showers.

This is my favorite view. You can just see the section with our names on it that Marian has stitched. I will sew it on to the back soon.

The sewing is finished

There is quite a lot of sewing involved in the hanging, so we have put in extra time on this part. In some ways it has been the most enjoyable. One person said 'very peaceful, meditative'


I am doing some machine quilting now, it nearly finished. I have a nephew who is a professional photographer coming next Saturday to take photo's in a local Victorian Church yard. I hope it doesn't rain like it did yesterday.

Some details

Members of the group project have done some lovely work.

Above is Suzanne's lace angel, she has designed and worked this, over many hours, she is very special.

The photo above left shows my dyeing, [actually the green is better than it looks] and Judith's photo shop print of stone passions flowers. Catherina has done some stitching on the flowers and done some lovely stitched lichen. This detail is truly collaborative.




This is Marian's version of the angel, she has used the design Suzanne developed. It is machine stitched chiffon over a flour paste resist fabric. Then Marian has cut most of the chiffon away. 



I have just been on a review day with my course. I am very near the end of the course and I am preparing for the Graduate Exhibition. My task is now how to show that the Secret Cemetery project has been a community project. So the emphasis is on the experience of working together as well as the end product. Any suggestions?

Its really coming together now.

We met on Saturday to begin to put all the different parts together. Suzanne has finished the wonderful lace angel. In the photo above Marian and Suzanne are  placing it on the wadding, it is the focal point so it has to go on first.

Marian is placing the next piece of fabric.

Marian and Suzanne are starting to hand stitch all the pieces together, they are using double cotton and varying the colour to pick up on all the different colours in the hanging.

This is the stage we reached by the end of the day, you can't see all the details so I'll do another post soon to show you some of them.

Nearly there

We have our last making workshop next Saturday, by then our hanging will be nearly finished.

Meanwhile I have been doing some more stitching with silk and scrim. The top photo
is scrim, and silk organza over cotton. They are all dyed by Lana with indigo and cochineal. I really enjoy this simple sewing.
The picture below is some of Judith's photo shop prints, you can clearly see the angel and the stone passion flower in the bottom image. I have stitched the top image, its rather fainter as its printed on to organza.

 

This is the same image only larger and printed on to cotton, I have frayed it, I like the mossy bits.