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Day 14 #SeptTextileLove is fibre. My favourite to use as a base for embroidery and as thread is silk. Many people think of silk as a risky option but I love it. Great sheen, luxurious feel and it is strong. Here are some Chinese inspired flowers using silk floss and flat silk.

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Day 20 of #SeptTextileLove is texture. Usually I try and give the idea of texture in my thread paintings with just the long and short stitch. Sometimes however I am tempted to pimp my long and short stitch with something else as shown here with tufts of black silk for the caterpillar spines on this pendant.

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Day 16 of #SeptTextileLove is line. A single straight stitch is a line therefore all my work is made up of lines; shaded, blended, contrasting, merging, outlined and sometimes hidden. I decided to choose a thread sketched piece where I used a black thread to ‘draw’ lines directly on the blank fabric. I then added appliquéd pieces of printed cotton.

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Colour is day 6 of @seam_collective #SeptTextileLove . Colour takes a major part in my embroidery work. I love the stage of picking my colours, and seeing how colours work with and against each other. Here is fine crewel wool on silk, the main vein on the leaf is Portuguese knotted stem stitch.

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Pattern is day 7 on #SeptTextileLove . Perfect example of pattern in hand embroidery is blackwork. Geometric patterns are counted out on evenweave linen using different weights of thread to change tones. Here is black silk on 55 threads per inch Zweigart Kingston linen... and yes it's very hard to count! @seam_collective . . . #septtextilelove2020 #blackworkembroidery #countedthread #countedembroidery #geometricembroidery #textileartist #silkembroidery #linenembroidery #shadedembroidery #countedwork #embroideryartisart #embroideryartistsoninstagram #embroideryartist #BritishStitchers #ihavethisthingwithembroidery #ihavethisthingwiththread https://www.instagram.com/p/CE3wXKrnnZj/?igshid=5tqxl8t1ix06

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#SeptTextileLove day 10, reverse. Here are two contrasts, the marbled paper embroidery almost looking the same as the front and the Venice scene looking shocking!🤣 I am the first to admit that the back of my work does not always look very neat! Don't judge me . . . . #septtextilelove2020 #hoopbutt #threadpainting #needlepainting #backoftheembroidery #needlework #embroideryartist #needleworkartist #paintingwiththread https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9GrT1neYb/?igshid=5ws1vz4xsl8q

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Today on @seam_collective #SeptTextileLove is #stash. Every person who works with fabric and thread surely has a massive stash and also tends to hoard. That's how we work, we use our stash to spark ideas. Plus you never know when that scrap of fabric that you nearly chucked away 15 years ago might come in useful🤣🤣 Here is some of my unused stash, vintage Swarovski crystals in their original paper packing. Bought on Portobello Road Market, just beacause they were so beautiful. . . . #septtextilelove2020 #septtextilelove20 #vintageswarovskibeads #swarovskicrystals💎 #antiquebeads #vintagebeads #beadembroidery #antiquecostume #antiqueglassbeads #vintage #embellishments https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwgwztHLJ_/?igshid=l0fau7iiz09j

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Day 3 of @seam_collective #SeptTextileLove is tools. Here are two I inherited from my Grandma, the silver one I used constantly on my apprenticeship at the RSN as a makeshift stilletto/prodder/knife/all round useful object... it was borrowed alot as it is so tough. The wooden one I've never used but presume is a type of prodder, with my Grandma's initial in the base, Edna 🧡 . . . #septtextilelove2020 #textiletools #needleworktools #embroiderytools #familyheritage #seamstress #antiqueembroidery #antiquetools https://www.instagram.com/p/CErQTxIn71O/?igshid=1qzuxwk25v1s1