£5

In 1977, the Yorkshire Ripper was nearly caught by a £5 note.

A newly minted note that had been left on a victim had only been distributed in one company, so the police interviewed the employees. Peter Sutcliffe, an employee, was interviewed, but overlooked.

I set about trying to recreate the note in stitch. I first did it with free machine embroidery.

This took me 6 hours. I then scanned this into a computer the prodded it into a form that could be input into a machine.

I then put this information into an automatic embroidery machine.

After 68 minutes I got this.

Here they are together.

I really enjoyed making these. My one is neater and easier to read. I imagine I could clean up the machine image better and get a neater image, but I think I wouldn't be able to gt the delicateness of my hand embroidered one. Not sure which one I will use in my final peice, I will produce couple more.

Thats all for now.