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Stitched Memories by Tilly Rose

Tilly Rose . Unknown Year . English

Learn to create unique textile art using vintage embroidery and cloth to preserve treasured memories! Features 15 step-by-step projects and showcases a variety of techniques—including hand embroidery, embellishing, collaging, quilting, and more! Vintage cloth, found objects, embroidery, layered cloth and hand-stitching are all artfully combined by Tilly Rose to create unique textile artworks that tell a story, record a special event, or celebrate a memory of a special person or place. Tilly describes how to create these textile artworks using scraps of fabric, thread, lace, ribbon, buttons, beads, photographs and other found items that readers either already own or have sourced from elsewhere. Inside you’ll find 15 projects for cloth journals, hoop art, collages, wall hangings, and quilts. In step-by-step demos, Tilly shows you a variety of easy techniques, including: • Layering and collage • Hand embroidery • Creating your own fabrics • Transferring your designs to cloth • Stamping on cloth • Appliqué and embellishing • Patchwork and quilting • Free motion embroidery • Photo transfer Create a textile artwork using fabric and items from your wedding, a child’s first birthday, a Christening, or even family heirlooms. Be creative, feel free to experiment—and turn beloved materials into treasured keepsakes.

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.

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