Artists Open Shop, Guildbourne Centre, Worthing

The Artists Open Shop is a pop-up shop project in the Guildbourne Centre in Worthing, West Sussex organised by Hazel Imbert and Sarah Sepe


The shop is open this year from Saturday 28 May to Sunday 3 July.  I have been invited to exhibit cross stitch here


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Blek le Rat's 'Last Tango in Paris"

Approx 35 hours work

Framed in black with double mount
Finished size 12"x16"

Karl Marx

Approx 40 hours work

Framed in black box frame with black mount

Finished size 11"x14"





























Influences

http://www.redmolotov.com

http://leftclickblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-told-you-so.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/binaryape/2873634346/

VW camper van

VW camper vans seem to be quite popular at the moment - my niece is in to them - so I thought this might be a good idea.

It was quite hard to get the sizing right  - and ended up doing this single threaded on size 22 fabric - too fine!

The hardest part was getting the logo right at this size - obviously larger sizes have greater detail - but can become too laborious to stitch.  It takes a while to get the sizing right - I usually look at 16 stitches per inch, which is also my preferred stitching size at the moment.

Framed size 10" x 10"

Banksy Balloon Girl

Enjoy doing this one - very quick and very effective.

Framed size 11" x 14"

Creating Cate

My niece - from pic to stencil to chart... and eventually to finished piece - approx 5 weeks!

Commissions undertaken

1.  picture

2.  stencil

3.  cross stitch grid

4.  mounted & framed 11x14

the beatles stitched up

stitching detail

stitching detail

The Beatles - framed £150

Finished size 20"x16"