slow stitching

Recently I took part from Sketchbook revival online event dedicated to sketchbooking. This week I ran through something similar, but shorter, more concetrated and dedicated to stitching. Making Zen – 5 days, 4 sessions per day and the days patch available only for 24 hours dedicated to slow stitching and embroidery. I watched them all, made notes, but actually stitched only a little. Still really inspirational event, some ideas yet to try out, definitely planning to take part again next year.

Slow stitched brooches made of bottle caps and scrap fabric with Heidi Parkes.

I’ve admired Mirjam Gielen work for a while. She is the soul behind Making Zen and for my delight she had a session on her stacked running stitch technique. This is definitely something to explore further and I plan to implement this into my work.

Also, I learned a trick to create graduating colours in stitchwork. It’s so simple – just use thread strands from both colours between moving from one colour to another!

Last night was the Night of Museums. This years topic was Movement in the night. I work in the archives and in our collections we have old court archives, so we decided to translate the topic as “shady movements”. To be more specific – movement leaves traces. We had a lecture on criminalistics and curiosities, old chronic reels, exhibition of evidences and of course traditional repository tours and workshops. A LOT of people came, which is absolutely wonderful, but it also means that today I avoid socializing 🙂