Over the years I have been combining a lot of slow stitch and working with fabric within my work and have really enjoyed the process. It started getting serious at the beginning of lockdown when the whole world seem to changed overnight and we had to come to terms with a new normal.
As I looked at the creative activities that I was doing none of them seem to still my mind until I remembered the work that I had done the previous year for a textile exhibition in Barbados at the Queens Park Gallery called Celebrating Textiles ( I will share about the exhibition tomorrow).
I realized that I liked the detail that you could get with stitch, fabric and paint - I was keen to experiment, learn new stitches and it set me on an amazing adventure of embroidery, fabric and textile art.
I had done a few fabric projects and made things from fabric as you can see in some of my ' Material Monday projects' which mostly included crochet pieces. The stitching, painting, dyeing started to grow.
I combined my love for painting with stitching and haven't looked back. I start out painting my backgrounds, adding the figure and then the stitching process continues until the piece feels done, learning new embroidery stitches and being comfortable with the supplies.
I am still learning about fabrics and how to work with all the different supplies to create the look and feel that I am after. I have been enjoying the process and continue to allow my imagination to come up with different characters and scenes.
I immersed myself into all the fabric, threads, beads and more that I had collected over the years. It was all there waiting for me to recognize their importance in my creative journey, and so I set about stitching, dyeing, embellishing and bringing together an array of techniques that I had developed over the years into a needle, my sewing machine and all the supplies that welcomed me with open arms, and I have not looked back.
What creative activities have you immersed yourself in over the past 2 years that has helped with your health and well-being?
Stay blessed and be a blessing.
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