I spend a lot of time doodling, lately stitch-doodling as well. Everyone keeps asking me to put my doodles on canvas so I am succumbing to the nagging and doing it. Welcome to the March #significantsomething project.
SS#MAR.15 – CANVAS DOODLES
AIM: To doodle on a canvas instead of my doodle book
TIMEFRAME: 1 month
Keep track of progress on Instagram and I will report back in a month to let you know how it went!
Again I am a tad late and this month I can’t blame the cat vomiting on the artwork. Life has simply been manic.
So manic in fact that I changed the project to better fit in with the sketch/watercolour groove I have had this past month.
Every time I get this ticket collection out I get one of those warm fuzzies in my gut. I think about how these lovely little stamped typographical delights were such a regular part of so many people’s day and disregarded they were. Look at them now, simply lovely. Enjoy!
Ok ok, I know this is late but I promise I have been trying to get this done.
January, as expected, was a diabolically insane busy month. So this project kind of had to evolve along the way to fit in with what little time I had. There was also the little hurdle mid-month when the cat decided to puke on the stitching (yeah trust my luck hey!).
But anyway here it is. Enjoy!
Yes yes yes before you leap up and down about how I have not yet completed the January significant something project let me assure you that it is happening and it’s not for lack of trying! I will have it up here in just a few more days times (there’s a whole story about a cat, puke and accidental tearing that I will fill you in on).
In the meantime here is February’s project.
AIM: To prepare a stitched version of these vintage train tickets.
TIMEFRAME: 1 month
Keep track of progress on Instagram and I will report back in a month to let you know how it went!
In trying to decide what to do this month I can’t help but think how little time I will have available.
Yeah yeah I know we are all time poor people, but the kids are on school holidays, everything is still semi-closed or at least on holiday mode I hear you say you should have heaps of time. Sadly from the first week in January I am full-swing back into the busiest January work schedule I have had in some years.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining but I have been looking for an easy project to undertake. Yes ok, a cop out.
So this month’s project is….
AIM: To create a tonne of doodle-stitch swatches for use on design projects (aka use stitching as a relaxing activity in a month that will be manic to the max!).
TIMEFRAME: 1 month
Keep track of progress on Instagram and I will report back in a month to let you know how it went!
Well this is the first significant something wrap-up (yay I did it).
As introduced here this month saw the beginning of the significant something projects. A wreath. Sounds so simple. Not so.
I had in my mind this magically perfect wreath of poms poms and felt. In reality there was no time for pom poms (you know December can be a little crazy) or perfectly cut circles of felt.
So I drew on my skills learnt at a workshop I undertook at the Burrawang DNA Festival with Alex Faulkiner. Messy stitching or doodle-stitching as I like to refer to it.
So in summary my wreath is messy woollen balls stitched together and decorated with feature stitches of nothing. And I love it! Enjoy.
Have you ever made a wreath? Did it work out perfectly for you?
