Module One – Chapter 7

 

TRANSLATING THE LAYERED DESIGNS INTO EMBROIDERY

These are two pages of designs from my journal with ideas I was thinking of for translating my previous designs into fabric. I then prepared samples which are set out below, based on some of these designs.

Both the above samples have hand stitching around the outer edges of the shapes. Unfortunately the colour has been washed out a bit in the scanning process and I wasn’t aware of that until I put them into the blog. I have been having problems with my scanner and at the moment it has decided to only scan sometimes. I will try and rescan them if necessary.

 

This sample has double stitching round the edges of the shapes with the first cutting inside the star shape, and then on the outer side of the middle shape.

I am not sure that this example worked properly because the layers are all separate and are not on top of each other. It could probably be resolved by putting another layer over the top and cutting out shapes inside the existing stitching.

I thought it would be interesting to see what happened with a heavy hessian type fabric which I had stamped and then frayed on the edges back to the stitching. The top layer echoes the shape underneath in the plain fabric.

I cut these shapes on the outside of the star shape and then added extra pieces in each of the corners with matching stitching.

Overall I enjoyed this chapter and the effects that can be achieved.