Well, the good news is that the sewing machine still works. The slightly less good news is that the foot pedal gets alarmingly hot while it’s working, which has a positive side in that my feet (or at least one foot) gets tisty-tosty warm for free, but probably means that if I run it for long periods, I’m risking some kind of electrical meltdown.
What I should do, of course, is take the foot pedal apart, but I can glimpse a rusty spring in there, and I’m just not brave enough yet. Anyway, I don’t care. I’m so pleased to have found a machine that works for me, that I just keep shouting out ‘This is What I Do! This is What I DO!’, rather like the Bishop of Southwark, but more embarrassing to my children.
The pictures are the result of my experiments. The red thing I’m going to add more patchworky texture to, and either turn into a wearable art purse, or experiment with collograph printing using it. The blue tree thing is how ‘behind the radiator’ piece is coming along. I’m pleased with the effect from scraffito, which cut and frayed the blue silk, and scraped into the watercolour beneath it quite nicely.
Other news is that I’ve finally bought my own domain and webspace, so I’m going to be putting up a proper website sometime soon – both as a gallery and, hopefully, as a space to sell work, since I’m not selling much through Etsy, and I want to also be able to put more interesting things up – a really eclectic mixture rather than pictures/ craft work. I’m also experimenting with the blog over here, as well as the one here.
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