Dear readers,
Georgia Summer Handbag is a phenomenal handbag incorporating different techniques that reflect the fantastic cultural heritage that Britain donated to Colonial America.
In our days Americans wrongly commonly describe how locker hooking has originated from the American South. However, locker hooking originated from Britain.
Pauperism in the American South pushed for the adoption of fabric scraps, however the primary intended use was wool on canvas. Crocheted handbags and rugs that seem to be forgotten in time.
Above is one of my locker hooking needles. This in particular was recently acquired via ebay.
Above : me executing a Georgia Summer Handbag. Don’t mind how puffy my fingers became – I seem to have got use to how much blood accumulates in my hands as consequence of the needlework!
Prior to the execution of the Georgia Summer Handbag I always gather my supplies in the following order left to right:
1, Two bladed rotary cutters for fabric cutting. I use fabric strips for the crochet and yarn thread inside the fabric loops to keep stitches securely stitched to the canvas.
2. Bowl with DMC Natura XL yarn and fabric strips,
3. Tote bag with note books, locker hooking needles and other accessories.
The locker hooking needle is a crochet needle with a hole at the bottom, which is used to insert the wool or fabric which will go inside the pulled fabric loops.
As you can see above, I pull the pink fabric loops from under the canvas using the canvas holes and I secure the loops with the yarn at the bottom of the locker hooking needle.
I tend not to overdo locker hooking stitching as I want the stitch to take second place in relation to the overall beauty of the Georgia Summer Handbag.
Each Georgia Summer handbag is unique with always a special time to test little skills like Colour Theory via Wool Dyes.
In the bag below I used a dyed burnt orange yarn to change the colour of the underlying base cross stitch using DMC Natura XL yarn. The effect was totally different from the effect obtained with over-stitching the same canvas with purple colour fast tapestry yarn. Both colours blended in different ways and showed mastering of yarn colour dye effects.
The blended colours not only took over the initial surface DMC pink yarn, but reflected differently according to the stitches used with the same yarn.
Overall mission accomplished!!
In other occasions I choose to over-stitch with a normal non dye tapestry yarn that has no effect whatsoever in the initial surface yarn,
Georgia Summer Handbags are dully registered with the UK Design Authorities and have their own GS1 barcodes.
Hope you snatch one when they are up in our shop!
Yours soon????
Best wishes,
Ariane Crafts
London
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