My Creative space

My creative space today is all about the Acacia pants, lots of them! I am about to do a fair bit of ironing (sigh) to get them ready to take into Olive Grove in time for the weekend. Excuse the blurry dodgy photo, it appears that a certian 3yr old had been smearing his fingertips on my camera lens... :/

mim x

Friendship and printing

This year I am determined to make more artwork for my walls. I would also like to work towards having a large enough body of work to have an exhibition sometime in the near future.

I do love my 'job' of making womens clothes, accessories etc.

But really my heart lies in textile art, paint, print and stitch.

I do get to be expressive and creative with the designs on the clothing, but I am aching to paint on canvas, get back to my machine embroidery and play around with mixed media again.

These are some old canvases a friend gave me and I have been experimenting with layering screen printed images and washes of colour.

There was already colour on these when I received them so it was nice not to start with a white canvas.

I also like that the finished piece contains the work of two artists, two friends :)

paper and stitch

I spent yesterday in the shop, trying to catch up on some cutting out and printing after Christmas ( very little stock left! arrgghh!) The yellow is a custom order for a woman who loved my hand printed kids dresses and 'had to have one' in her size.

There has been alot of pfaffing about trying to get the size correct ( help I have no pattern making skills!)

I am posting it off to  her today , so fingers crossed it will fit.
While I was there I printed up a few girls dresses aswell.
my card stocks in the shop  were very low so I spent a bit of time making some newbies.
This one is vintage fabric and vintage wallpaper with machine stitching.
As are these few... I am going to do some more screen printed cards soon.

I really really LOVe stitching on paper.

I am a little sad as my trusty old Janome was very sick, the man rang from the service centre this morning and its going to be cheaper to buy a new machine than to fix the old one.

sad, but very exciting to have a spanking new machine

mim xx