take me home...

how could you resist! I saw this in a magazine and as a cat lover myself had to put it up on my blog

old work

looking at old work I realise I have a lot of working styles and I don't want to give up any of them :( maybe Ill just stick to a bit of everything, ha!

I have a thing about keeping all of my work, sketchbooks mean a lot to me so I always try to make them like a story.

I was sorting out work from last year and wanted to put up a few things from my embroidery project sketchbook inspired by postcards from the trip to Paris, of 1920s and female icons...

The hand embroidery below was inspired by Jenny Hart whose work I have very much fallen in love with.

monkeys monkeys monkeys

I wanted to put up a bit more from my primate project at uni, experiments, and parts of my drawing work too :) I think I'm starting to find my style after quite some time. I'm not one to dress in bright colours and patterns but its something that I've found comes through in my work. I love making my work fun, humorous and playful but something that can be appreciated at all ages.

whitstable

in the summer i went on a little holiday to whitstable, plenty of charity shops (brilliant!) but the boyfriend didnt enjoy looking round them repeatedly.

while i was there, this caught my eye, you cant really say its inspirational but i think everybody should have one...cue stuffed cat...

int' he cute

Its been a long time comin'

I have been so preoccupied with uni projects that I have abandoned the blog. Im now going to try and blog everyday with things that Ive found a liked and also bits of my work.

Over the past 4 weeks I've been working on little monkeys to relate to my summer project(you can see some on the header at the top).

Here's a few of the finished ones :)

cloud filling stitch... or lack of!

I have spent quite a while today trying to find how people have used the hand embroidery cloud filling stitch on, well, anything, and I cannot find any!

I'm not sure whether I'm keen yet, I think it looks a bit like pink fishnet tights which is not so good!

at the moment...

I am working on my personal project just before I leave for summer. I love working with peoples faces and free machine embroidery.

here is a simple applique' piece of my brother and my Grandad, this makes the project more personal for me....

New to this

Hello,

My name is Charlotte, I'm 20 and I'm studying textiles for fashion and interiors at Bath spa university.

I have always wanted to make a blog but have never got around to it, so have decided to make one now just before the summer gets started.

This is just going to be a place where I can talk about the work I'm doing and see if anybody likes it :)

Blog out!