Sarah Appleton - Textile Artist Blog

Today I started work straight away on this little guy: Hon hon hon He's a French Bulldog and the beagle eyed can hopefully see that he's a little mis-aligned on the right hand side; I personally like offset works but it's not what H&L wanted for this piece so my job was to fill in the blank white bits along the bottom in satin stitch by hand and the extra grey bit will be unpicked later. This was he at the end of the day: [Designed by Hand & Lock, not me!] Still some very small bits left to do but I spent some time making sure it looked really good and Laura was pleased with it when I showed it to her as you can't see the difference between the hand and machine stitch; so I must have done a good job. I really enjoyed working on this, it was definitely my sort of thing to do and that always helps make a job easier. Other than that I ran errands, helped frame shirts to be machine embroidered and also helped with finishing the re-embroidered apron from y...

Day 9 was a day of goldwork, unpicking embroideries that needed to be reworked, finishing off a rather exciting celebrity project that I sadly can't write about and searching through the Bead Room for sequins and beads intended for refurbishing a pair of rather exotic baby shoes. No mean feat as I had to match colours and shapes to the existing decorations and given that this is only a portion of the boxes available to look at: and I had to balance on [another] scary ladder I think I did quite well! I thought it would take me a long time to find the right embellishments but it didn't take too long in the end. I also discovered that although I don't think I'm scared of heights I think I might be scared of ladders?! Day 10 was probably my personal worst day so far. I've not been feeling very well this week but wanted to push myself to go in to work anyway so as not to let anyone down - especially myself - and to make the most of my short time at Hand & Lock. ...

We've finally had our grades back from uni for the Textiles Visual Studies unit and I'm proud to say that I had 78% for that unit! Which [in case you're not sure] is a very strong grade! Sometimes it's hard to know whether you're doing the right sorts of things at the right time but I guess so far I have been, which is reassuring. We also just handed in the second unit - Creative Beginnings in Textile Techniques - all the stitch, knit and print samples relating to TVS; here's a photo of my Mounting Madness day: Crazy Town And my section of wall in the studio: Another Stitch In The Wall As you may be able to tell I have also discovered Instagram, you can follow my works in progress / see my nonsense and cat pictures  @appletinitiny Here's some work from my next project for your excitement: The Day The World Turned Day-Glo! I was a bit enthusiastic with my green crayon