My Baboon

I love to share photos from my desktop, of my works in progress, since I assume that when working with textile, the process can be just as interesting as the final results. For me, it feels like a journey of some sort, as hooks and yarns go through the form which is being designed by them at the same time.

Slowness

I made some progress with my embroidery projects. I have been working on this series for almost a year. Doing other stuff for work makes my progress even slower. Slowness would probably become one of this blog’s most popular keywords, especially describing this series. Sometimes I feel like leaving it all behind, since it all seems useless, as there are no results to see.
During the last few days, documenting my progress cheered me up a bit, and so I have something I can share, and soon there will be even more.

Raven and me

 The embroidery is coming along very slowly, but here I have a few more new stitches to share,

 

   as well as new raven which was sewn last week.

The stitches

One of the things I am always most curious about in textile work is how things develop from very small stitches or loops. The process is usually so slow, and it is always make me think about the many aspects of the work, until sometimes I feel that the steps are more important than the final results.

Here she is again

It has been a long time since my last update.

The lady is still being crocheted, and the changes are slowly becoming recognizable.

Crocheting the first foot

 

  I will come back soon with more updates...

The hands

Those were first, but they didn't fit very well,

 

 so I had to replace them, it lasted a while, till I figured out how should I crochet the human-like hands.

 And here they are, tomorrow I will begin with the feet.

And yet in progress

Growing-up

Here she is, yet there is much more to be done; keeping on unpicking and re-crocheting, over and over again. The pace is slow, and now I keep working on the hands and legs.

More work in progress

  

There was much unpicking involved in my working process during the last few days, it has been growing at a slower pace. 

Work in progress

Back to crochet

    I couldn't put down my crochet hook last week, and the crocheted heads have been growing on my desk.

Coming soon-Crochet workshop

Recently I have been busy getting ready for a new crochet workshop I will be conducting next month here in my new home studio. It required a lot of thinking and concentration on my part, since when I create my items; I just crochet freestyle, finding my way with the hook and stitches. I have a raw idea in my mind which comes to life loop by loop, and I don’t follow any patterns. Actually, it is not that simple. Many times it required countless unpicking until I got the form I wanted; a long trial and error process would perhaps be a better way to describe it. I have developed this process over the years, and came up with new ideas and techniques from doll to doll.

Many times I was asked to teach my own unique crocheting technique, I didn't feel confident enough to do so. But as I received more and more requests, I decided to give it a try. At first I made those trials by my own, and then asked a friend to be my guinea pig. I taught her my principles and it seemed like they were clear enough, she managed to come up with a crocheted head on her own, following my instructions. There still remain some issues like creating the workshop schedule and deciding on the number and duration of meetings, as well as some details about the process I have to plan, but  I will publish the invitation in the following few days.

Send me an e-mail if you'd like me to e-mail you when the invitation is done or if you'd like to join my mailing list, where I send updates about upcoming workshops.

New doll in progress

 

A tense moment when I began to paint the new doll’s facial features,the paint can't be removed, and the process requires so much concentration.