I needed a booklet for the online course on sea and shells, inspired by the book A sea to stitch. I temporarily abandoned alphabets, in order to have unique drawings on which to build a discourse. This is how the e-book Horizons was born, with three seascapes, which take up the subjects of the book, adding a lighthouse that illuminates the horizon and boats, which give me the feeling of the wind.
I stole the colours of these embroideries from the landscapes of a memorable holiday and built two cushions around them, to give to those who experienced the adventure with me. As I was assembling, the impulse rose up for me to jot down a more precise memory on the canvas and, on the back of each cushion, I wrote in split stitch the names of two places, which resonate in our memory, and one of them bears the colours of the embroidery.
The e-book contains the drawings, colours and essential explanations.
I assembled the cushions after publishing the booklet and now I would add the cushion design here, with my dimensions!
With the third design, the most essential landscape, I made a small bag.
Since building has become part of my daily routine, I find myself thinking more and more strongly about the potential of entirely handmade finishings, which, by the way, meets with the favour of all embroiderers who do not have a sewing machine, or who, like me, have a bad relationship with certain violent machines.
So I took a long strip of fabric and hemmed it with the jour hemstitch on all four sides, with a small margin of half a cm on the long sides and a slightly higher one, to be left open for the drawstring, on the short sides. I understitched the folded long sides and finally added the decorative bullion stitches.
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