the sewing book series-sew somerset

I haven't actually

seen the article yet...

even though it hit the news stands

on Dec. 1

because my comp copy has not caught up with the

change in address...

and I am far from a 

Barnes and Noble...

Part 1 mixed media on bristol board 11 x 14

the work however made it back to

the studio in one piece...

and for that I am ever grateful...

I love this series...

there is something

satisfying about it for me

that I cannot quite put my finger on...

they will all end up in the shop

after the new year...

Sommaire, mixed media on bristol board  11 x 14 

the new issue below...

you may recognize the top two pieces

but the four below are all new pieces

that I created for the current issue...

Taille, mixed media on bristol board

the following pieces are mixed media on

Khadi paper..8 x 8

Figure 45

Sharps

Part of the Whole

I am just now finishing my next 

Sew Somerset project...

due in on Jan. 15

a hand stitched  book on feathers

I will be back on Friday..

with my annual

Buon Natale post..

and then I will be taking time off for the

holidays...

see you soon..

xo

the sewing book series and where my header came from

sewing...

is a big subject with me

I had two grandmothers that sewed...

but they were very different...

and that made me a different kind of sewer too...

you knew there would be a story didn't you?

in 2007

Stampington announced that they were going to begin a 

new publication called

Sew Somerset

and I knew that the altered catalogue 

I was working on would be 

something I would submit...

it was made from old sewing bits and bobs

my substrate was originally  a JJill catalog

and I made a cotton transfer that turned out perfectly...

it was from an old ad

in a sewing magazine

of a woman with a downcast gaze..

and in 

2009

when I started blogging

I realized that it was the perfect image

for my header

because it looked

just like

La Dolce Vita...

doesn't it?

I was delighted to have my work published

and although I had been published in Somerset Studio

and a few of their other publications

I felt like I was home

in Sew Somerset...

flash forward on the current

of time to 2013

when I found this lovely gem of a book

Lippincott's Home Manuals-Clothing For Women

written in 1924

and you will understand 

that those sewing issues are still being resolved...

and... 

my work has really changed...

The Sewing Book Series

Sommaire

Sommaire detail

Part 1

and something tells me

that there will be a 

part 2...

these are both in the 

Dolce Shop

in the studio I am working on

 small paper stitched concertina books with nature themes

and mini collages ...

can't wait to show those to you

and see what you are all up to..

soon...

C4N!