September 27, 2020
Experiments in watercolor and pastel!
Stitching on More Paper
If you are good with many false starts you may continue reading. Remember the photos I posted a while ago with the stitched paper? The darn thread is so slippery and fine that I'm ho-hum about the project. The paper twine that I bought from Paperphine is still taunting me with its "there-ness" and I'm trying to use it again.
If the twine is too thick and unwieldy, I figured that I just need to use bigger paper with bigger holes. So here:
I took a page out of a large encyclopedia dictionary. I layered two pages together with some kind of Wonder Under-type stuff. Then I poked large holes with a dart. (Of course I used a template I printed off the computer)
In the meantime, I let the boy play with the dart because there is nothing more fun than poking holes in things.
If the twine is too thick and unwieldy, I figured that I just need to use bigger paper with bigger holes. So here:
The paper twine is heavy enough to use without a needle. The problem I keep having is that it is so stiff it doesn't pull through the holes easily. Several holes have ripped while I've pulled the twine through. I don't know if this one will work either! It also doesn't lay nicely on the paper. It looks nice in this shot because I've only done a few. The ones after this are getting wonky. Oh well. I'll take another break from it and see if I can come back to it fresh...
In the meantime, I let the boy play with the dart because there is nothing more fun than poking holes in things.
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