NEW PAGE

A few years ago I took a photo of one of the paths in our local park.

I put it into photo shop and changed the colour to purple.

This has been laying around for ages and so I thought it was a perfect candidate for the next page in my fabric journal.

Here is the photo, quite simple, and the embellished picture printed out onto fabric and embellished with bead etc.

 Now for the fun.

I have never used dissolvable film for embroidery before, but have bought some with the intention of making a background for these pictures with scraps, bits of lace, ribbons etc.

This one is called Avalon wash away film but there are others.

The idea is to scatter tiny bits of fabric, lace etc on a lightweight piece of fabric, lay the film on top and free stitch all over it.

When the film is washed away you have a new piece of fabric of your making in the colour way you want.

Could all go disastrously wrong but I hope not.

I can see me having lots of fun with this.

As you can see I've started snipping tiny bits of fabric into a box in the colours I think might go and raking through my boxes of threads.

This is a good reason never to throw any scraps of anything away. 

I certainly will put them in a box from now on.

While I'm here I might as well show you my new toy.

It's a mini hoover that runs off of a usb connection.
Ideal for hoovering up the cat hair on the desk, keyboard or piece of work.
I truly love my cats to bits but if I could change one thing about them it would be the fur.
I wonder if you can get cats like poodles that do not shed their coat, now that would be ideal. lol