Last year around this time (Aug. 2010 to be precise) I submitted a few pieces of artwork to a woman named Leanne Prain out in Vancouver BC, looking for artistic people with a love of craft to be a part of her next book – Hoopla: The Unexpected Art or Embroidery. One of my pieces was accepted to the now 400pg work of art and the book will be out mid-October! There will be a book launch in Toronto @ Type Books (Queen St. West, right across from Trinity-Bellwoods park) Tuesday, Sept. 27 2011, between 6 and 8pm. Come on in and say HI!
From start to finish (actually embroidering the piece, drawing and writing up the pattern) the piece took me about 46hrs. This was the longest amount of time I’d ever worked on a piece of embroidery, but the end result was definitely worth it. Here
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- Original sketch
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- half done
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- Complete project!
are some pics of the original sketch, work in progress and finished piece that you will see in the book. My piece was actually done on a nude colour chemise to symbolize the “self image” aspects of the work, so you won’t just be seeing a bunch of pictures of embroidery…Leanne has taken the time to photograph each piece into a work of art! Check out this link to Leanne’s page for more information about her other projects and how to acquire this rad book!
