You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

An instagram post just reminded me off another technique we can use for stitching onto denim, using waste canvas. That gives us a grid to work on as well as a surface to draw onto, and it can be removed when the piece is finished - albeit painfully slowly pulling all those threads. Mind you, one of us is rather experienced at doing that!

I haven't been stitching for a while, beyond covering the raw edge of my desleeved jacket become vest - which btw I am super happy with! The arthritis in my fingers is getting in the way so I am limiting stitchery to extend that joy, but meanwhile I am destroying a rather lovely handful of op shop interior design books a friend found for me, full of gloriously photographed images and some really clever text. I have missed my book making, all that ripping and cutting and glue stickiness, so prepping a couple of these for transformation is satisfying that need rather well. And using solidly made abandoned books is a great way to get round the need to heavy stitch layers together through spines, saving my fingers! And I get to enjoy the beautiful images made by people who have such great eyes for the perfect photograph, before I rip them up to make something new. And often incomprehensible.

I think it might be an addiction...