All the way from Paris!

Good afternoon everyone and hope you're all enjoying a nice relaxing Sunday. I'm really busy today.... I've got a tutorial tomorrow for my professional studies so am spending the day trying to get all my work into some semblance of order ready! The living room floor is covered lol!
 
Today I'd like to share my embroidery samples with you all that went to Paris. The collection was designed for children's wear and was based on the song 'a windmill in old Amsterdam'
 My drawing sets included lots of mice, clogs, tulips and windmills and my colour scheme was reds and greys. I thought it would be fun to try and recreate fabrics like men's suiting to give it a different feel.

 

 

 

The samples were created on hand dyed fabrics using various methods and a variety of different embroidery techniques.

I was really pleased with the finished samples and really enjoyed working on them..... a huge change from my usual paper crafting work !!
Thanx for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend. Hugz, Jayne xxx

My Glamorous 50s collection

Happy Monday all . Today I'm going to share with you a peek at one of my previous collections based on the glamorous 50s. I won't show you the whole lot as there's 8 different mini collections within the whole ...... it'll just give you an overview!
I've always loved looking at pictures of the 50's.....all feminine and glamour, fab clothes, stunning jewellery and gorgeous movie stars......style icons that have stood the test of time!

 

 A decorated candle with foiling and pearl embellishment.

This is the matching gift wrap, again embellished with hand foiling.

Purple textured wrap with glitter finish

Matching tag with glitter finish and gem embellishment.

Another gift wrap ......love the faded vintage look to the flowers.
Hope you've enjoyed looking at my work. Tomorrow I'll show you what I'm up to now . Have a good day whatever you're doing. Hugz, Jayne xxx

Busy Week !

Good morning all. First of all thankyou to all the lovely messages of support both on here and on my facebook for my exciting news. I appreciate it sooo much.
Well I've been off line for a week....a fault with my internet :(  We really don't realise how much we rely on it until we don't have it!!
Although I've been off line I've had a really busy week. I've been catching up on some of my professional studies work.....8 weeks till hand in  eeeek ! Better get myself into 'computer' mode :)
 I thought I'd share something I made outside of uni today. It was an order for a birth sampler with a difference..... a cute teddy bear holding a plaque. My client was over the moon with it.

The finished article

A closer look at the 'flower' in her hair.

Hope you've enjoyed your visit today. Enjoy your weekend  whatever you're  all up to. Hugz, Jayne xxx

Exciting News :)

Woohooo ! Just a quickie but I had to share. I've some really exciting news today...... Four pieces of my embroidery work has been selected to be exhibited in Paris next week at the Premier Vision trade show. For those of you that haven't heard of this it's a huge international trade show where companies from all over the go to purchase new designs for future collections, usually either for fashion or for interiors. Excited muchly !
I'll be back later to share some more of my work. Have a good day. Hugz, Jayne xx

A Peek at my Embroidery module

Afternoon all. Thanx for the  lovely comments :)  I really appreciate your input. Today I want to share some of my embroidery module which, again, I did quite some time ago. As usual I started with a theme , did some drawing sets and then interpreted them in embroidery. The emphasis was on the 'drawn quality' and not my usual neat embroidery stitches!

One of my initial drawing sets.

Another drawing sheet.

Machine and hand embroidery.

Machine Embroidery. Appliqued rose in organza on a discharged background.

Hand embroidery Pleated organza dandelion head with couching and woven embroidered leaves.

Machine embroidery. Layered cut panel at the top.

Well that's the peek for today. Thanx for stopping by and I  hope you've enjoyed it. Enjoy the rest of your day. Hugz, Jayne xx

A Blog makeover !!!

As many of you will already know I am, at present, in my final year of my BA(HONS) degree in textiles and surface design at Cleveland college of Art and Design in Hartlepool, County Durham. I'm loving every minute and would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to join me on my creative journey. I would really appreciate your thoughts on my work and the way I get there!
I will be posting some of my work from earlier on in my degree and this will lead on to what I'm up to week by week.
 The first work I'm going to share is from way back when we did an interiors module. We were all given 2 words we drew out of a hat and my words were haberdashery and vintage which was a stroke of luck as vintage is my fave!

This was one of my drawing sets.

My final wall covering design.

This is a snippet of a 3 metre black on cream hand screen printed interior fabric.
Hope you like today's insight into my work.
Have a good day. Hugz, Jayne  xxx

Steampunk Tags

As I have been unwell for a few weeks now n haven't managed to do any crafting at all ( if anyone comes across my mojo please send it back!!!! lol) I decided to update my blog with a set of tags I made a few weeks ago. I join in with a monthly tag swap over on facebook in a group called mad crafters giggles n the theme for August was steampunk. Right up my street!!!

I used my fave steampunk stamps from Kanban that seem to come out again n again! I used my trusty promarkers to add the colour.  The background is a cogs mask from Splodgeaway which was embossed onto coredinations and sanded back. I added a strip of washi tape to each tag n got to use my new die from xcut- the cogs. Love this die n they're so effective! I finished the tags off with garden twine.
Pop over to facebook n take a look at the crafters giggles group. Theres always loads going on n lots of challenges to enter. :)
Hope you've enjoyed looking n I'll be back soon with some new work!!!
Take care and enjoy your day even if it is Monday!!!! lol. Thanx for all your fab comments. Big hugz, Jayne xxxxx