Experimentation.

On Monday I was a little ill, so only got this thing done.

I decided to try running stitch to creat a drawing from life of my friend. I this I wad partially successful as I appear to have accidentally turned her into a cartoon. I must work on my accuracy.

The next thing I did was hand embroider onto felt, thinking about what I could use as wadding for more Kantha.

The colours arn't great, and the stitches are loose as it is hard to sew onto felt without it falling apart in your hands. I like the idea though. I would like to experiment with it.

If I could give the stitches more meaning it wold be good.

Weave

Today I did weaving, but firstly I finished a sampler.

My main problem with this is that I am incapable of a straight line unfortunately. Apart from that it reminds me of lines after doing something wrong. I like the chain stitch despite it going very wrong here. Thorn stitch is another one I may work into things.

I then did some weaving.

The embroidery thread is successful, as is the loose fabric. The canvas and twine are less successful. The string is soso.

Finally I made this. Its just something. I have not formed opinions yet.

Thankyou.

Hiding

Another experiment about hiding in plain sight using a technique I used during transparency. 

Mabry I should paint over the string to hide it better? I don't think it is desperately relevant. I like the image though.

Kantha

We learnt about Kantha, a type of quilting today. I did a quilted face of Sam Garvin from a mug shot from 1925. He was a gang leader in Sheffield.

I like the delicate running stitch. I think that I could use this to explore motives by hiding things between layers.

Embroidery

Sorry I have not posted in a while, I have been doing time consuming stuff.

I did a cross stitch drawing of Peter Sutcliffe. 

The different sides interest me. I chose to do a very mug shot or photo fit like picture. The underside is more expressive and looked angrier.

The use of cross stitch almost physically says no. I like it.I think the wool works well as it is more textural than embroidery thread. People just keep wanting to pick it up.