This piece takes its title from Wordsworth’s 1804 poem ‘Ode on the Intimations of Immortality’:
It hasn’t photographed well on this very dark wet Wednesday; the colours and layers are a little more subtle in real life.
The text fabric (above, top left) is a handwritten page from a nineteenth-century almanac that I scanned and printed onto tea-dyed cotton. If you iron fabric to a piece of freezer paper that exactly fits your printer (usually A4 in the UK), it’s surprisingly straightforward. I expected it to get snarled up and jammed in the bowels of the printer but it sailed through quite smoothly. I used to print on fabric quite often and had forgotten how effective it can be. If you set it with a hot (ish) iron after printing it appears to be reasonably water resistant, though I haven’t yet tried washing it.
There are a couple more like this in progress, an ‘Intimations of Immortality’ mini-series, perhaps.
There’s also a heap of loveliness on the table that will be turned into something a little larger…
…related to more sketchbook exploration:
I am definitely busy.
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ah, thank you for the tip! I have some poetry that needs to go on a large piece (at some point) and I’ve gone over about 100 different ways to do it. this might be the most effective. and I like this piece a lot. something to ponder.
I found it works quite well, though you do need some courage to feed it through your one and only printer… Huge relief when it works 🙂
Have you thought of connecting all these lovely little pieces together into a quilt? Or a bound book of fabric? Or individually framed on a gallery wall? Or…?
there are plans aplenty 🙂 It will all come together eventually
Karen: Thank you so much for sharing your art and inspiration with us—it is truly delightful. I am new to stitch journaling and have been so taken by it that I’ve expanded to experiment with other techniques and projects—all of which have brought much joy to my heart. Much thanks to you!
thanks so much Rebecca. There are so many possibilities to explore 🙂
Such beautiful work, Karen. ❤️
thanks so much, Paula
There is so much going on in these pieces, quietly but very much there. And it is good to get the sense that you are busy – and, I hope, enjoying it!
thanks so much Rachel, I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying it. This is exactly what I needed to be doing right now