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Procrastination Break 

So more than a year on....exactly one year and six months!

I'm at a point where I am at a loss as to start my next module for my C&G Hand Embroidery.

I do have some ideas, some projects I wouldn't mind taking further but for some reason I cannot make the decision as to which one.
I have thoughts in my head such as I want to make something fabulous instead of just good it passed.  Something i feel I could express my creative core with...
I do realise that ideas are very rarely unique but perhaps this is paranoia but i have at least two of my possibilities show up on social media...I don't mean exactly the same as mine but similar enough to put me off making them.

I'm guessing that most people go through this kind of phase when they're studying!  I wouldn't say I am a Textile Artist, more of a Maker...I do like to make my own projects not others but I'm a 'flitterer' sorry i know thats not a real word but it perfectly describes my working practice!

I do think this is all old hat mindset and has followed me all my life...i believe this attitude has halted my progress in so many ways...I see I am disabling myself from fear of failing to reach my own standards...I feel there is something inside me but how do I get at it?

In that vein my little star who has 'I am worthy' written on his back is a welcome memory and reminder for me...and for the person who bought him!
  


Another module was Dyeing fabric...so enjoyable!  The blue fabrics were dyed with the Ice-Dyeing method...very quick and easy, just crumple and sprinkle...a method I will use again! 


The yellows were dyed using what's called a drainpipe resist method.  I didn't have a drainpipe but I have a clay wine cooler!  How gorgeous are the patterns achieved by wrapping around the cylinder and scrunching the fabric along the side upwards holding with thread, which of course gets dyed too...another method I'll use again.



The foto below is the Princess page of my storybook see the post from last year for the other pages!



The only reason she has become is the module before the fabric dyeing was based on Raised stitches and Needlelace.
As you can see she's not finished!


The skirt is Needlelace and the tunnel entrance has various Raised Band stitches.
The background is coloured with the Inktense pastels.


And this is the outline plan for the page...it will be a while until I can get back to her as I have modules to do.  I have 5 more modules to do...



I await tutor help to my panic email yesterday!  I do not ask for help very often so this is strange feeling to me!
Oh dear!
I am trying to combat whatever is going on inside me with listening to meditations!

 

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