Embroidery with Claire Milne

Claire's great basket of embroidery floss

My shoe drawing

Claire demonstrating how to transfer a drawing onto fabric

Ta Da!

In the hoop and ready to embroider

Progress so far

Last Wednesday I spent the afternoon with my friend Claire Milne.
Claire is an illustrator and crafty gal extraordinaire with expertise in sewing, knitting, crochet and embroidery. You can check out some lovely handmade items in her etsy shop here.
I have wanted to learn more about embroidery since falling in love with the Bayeux tapestry years ago. Claire taught me how to do many stitches including running stitch, chain stitch and french knots- ooh ahh - plus she demonstrated how to transfer a design onto fabric using Sarel transfer paper. I absolute love the process of embroidery --so be warned! you'll be seeing more stitchy creations in the future.

April

Here is my April illustration from the Workopolis Calendar which I illustrated.
Inspired by Saul Bass.

New Work

I'm working on adding a lot more collagey elements to my work. In this piece I really liked adding the graph paper, masking tape, and stamp from an old envelope.

"Aspergers is the new gay"

Sample 1

Sample 2

Part of R.M. Vaughan's 'Buttons for Toronto artists' series

I read this quote by R. M. Vaughan in his Globe interview with filmmaker Noah Baumbach today.
So funny I had to make a lettering sample out if it.
p.s. Looking forward to seeing Baumbach's Greenberg.
p.s.s. R.M. Vaughan has made a great series of "Buttons for Toronto artists" with quotes including
"Blame the Drake" and "Please stop talking about New York".
Just had to include a pic of those too.