Daily Paper Prompt #10: Stitch Paper
Fri, August 10, 2012 at 10:06AM “The world doesn't make sense,
so why should I paint pictures that do?”
Pablo Picasso
Today's prompt: Stitch a little paper collage that makes absolutely no sense.
Start with a piece of paper that is a little sturdy, something like an index card, bristol paper, scrapbook paper, heavy cardstock, watercolor paper, an index card divider, manilla folder. NOT copier/printer paper or cardboard.
{Follow the prompt at your own peril. If you know how to use a sewing machine, go for it.}
It is my humble opinion that you don't need a special needle, a special machine or special thread.
Turn on the machine. Lift the presser foot. Place the paper under your nifty sewing machine needle with a smaller piece of fabric or paper on top (the stuff you want to attach). Move your paper around as you sew to get the stitches where you want them. Straight lines are easiest, obviously, but you can move the paper back and forth to get waves. Add something else to the collage. Sew. Etc.
Another option is to just sew lines.
I imagined the stitches going the path of the old screen savers or a PONG game. Apparently I'm dating myself in this post. Sew in a straight line til you get almost to the edge. Make sure the needle is in the DOWN position when you stop stitching. On my machine you can tell it to do that. Then swing the card {same way you do a corner in REAL SEWING} and ricochet on.
The sewing machine is either your friend or your enemy.
My beloved sewing machine is a Janome Magnolia 7330
For 10 years, my original machine was my enemy. Not even a frenemy. Just a horrid tear-inducing nightmare. I gave it to my friend Andrea who smartly discovered that it needed to be repaired {because she knew what she was doing and I had no idea} and she and the machine now live in Georgia.
Fun things:
The Interview Series: Marit Barentsen
CraftyPod, An Image Only Interview
Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts
Reader Comments (8)
I don't own a sewing machine, at least a "real" one, but I do have a small hand held machine that I don't know how to use. I am going to do the prompt anyway, I'll just sew by hand. It just so happens that I have recently learned how to embroider on paper (I am the paper arts instructor at a local Joann store, and the proect for this month happens to teach that.) . But who knows, maybe I'll break out that little hand machine and see if I can figure it out!
Well, I just found this fun activity, linking through from some other site (sorry I don't remember where) but I love it!
I'm not an artist, truly just a doodler and all-around crafty-type-person.
Here's my first few cards...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84651240@N05/
Such an awesome prompt :) Thanks again! It's so nice to try something new.
http://stitchnmaille.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/prompts-9-and-10-a-double-whammy-of-dpps/
this might have been the first time I ever had fun making a collage with borrowed images. Also a first stitching paper. I look forward to making more of both. Machine stitching makes me feel like I'm doing some serious werk! Here's the link to my creation-- I didn't see Mr Linky today: http://flic.kr/p/cPsWVj
I'm NOT seeing Mr. Linky either, but I'm adding my "Stitched Paper" anyhow. It was good to read others' stories though I've yet to look at their "art-comes" which I have named the What Happens When I Follow A Prompt or Take On A Challenge...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weecottagewonders/7759271962/in/photostream/
I'm going to get out my sewing machine and sew a collage on an index csrd, but first I wanted to share this ICAD for Susi who is embroidering on an index card.
I have some tips on "description" that may help.
Cheryl
Here's my stitched (embroiderd) index card:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atcs_by_susi/7763997042/in/photostream
Here's my "sew senseless" index card:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79959821@N02/7765227546/