Posted by Agnes Iley , Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:26 AM
The accidental shoe
For this exercise I needed to work in pastels. Hmmm….don’t have many of those either, after some digging I found some “powdery” colours of thread. And seeing as we are hit by heavy snow and the roads are like sheets of ice, they simply have to do.
So I thought I would make the background a little more interesting. For some strange reason I love brown wrapping paper and paper bags. So I got a piece out crumpled and torn it and fused it to a piece of felt. I thought the colour might be a bit too strong so I gave the paper a little white wash.
Then I started stitching, I followed the lines of the torn paper and some of the crumpled lines. While I was working that little voice at the back of my head kept trying to tell me something, but I didn’t want to listen. Until my husband walked by and said “nice shoe”.
Sigh…..my total random stitching had produced a shoe, it couldn’t be more of a shoe if I planned it to be a shoe. So what could I do but add laces and give in?
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