Daydream Journals by Tilly Rose
Tilly Rose . Unknown Year . English
Begin your creative journey and memory collection with your own gorgeous stitched daydream journals. Talented textile artist Tilly Rose shows you how to create beautiful cloth journals, among other lovely items, to record precious thoughts and ideas - from fleeting memories to treasured items, sketches, poems and photographs. There are eight gorgeous things to make, including journals, a sewing case, a project bag and a scroll cloth diary, using a range of exciting techniques that include layering and collage, hand embroidery, transferring your own designs to cloth, stamping, appliqué, embellishing, patchwork and free motion machine embroidery. A journal provides a fascinating glimpse into your world, is a beautiful object in its own right and will provide inspiration for further embroidered creations.
Categories: Art & Design
About the Author
I am a creative mixed-media textile artist and designer with a passion for working with cloth & thread, doodling with inks, journalling and eco-dyeing. Each piece always tells its own story and is filled with a symphony of delights relating to a link to our past, perhaps a way of showcasing a moment in time, or it can simply be a collage of forgotten treasures and everyday found objects. I love to concentrate on textures, layering of fabrics, adding surface stitching, embellishing with ephmera, drawing and shading with embroidery silks using a variety of traditional sewing skills with a few mixed media techniques thrown in for good measure. I design and make, using the cloth as my foundation and leaving the threads to tell the rest of the tale... Slow stitching particularly makes my little 'ol Fen heart sing... taking time out to 'simply be' with any design is so therapeutic and calms my meandering creative soul. I feel very connected to Mother Earth and use her inspirations in all of my designs. I love to dabble with other nature crafts, such as weaving alongside my stitching designs and incorporate found treasures whenever I can into my textile collages.
