These embroidery samples, unearthed during a fruitless search for gardening gloves, were made in my early, heady, days of textile courses at City Lit.
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| Keep (er, why....) |
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| Gone - a few were kept as candidates for porcelain dipping |
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| The "running people" are gone too (hurrah) |
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| Undecided (12" square) |
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| Stitching this closely is harder as the eyes get older |
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| "Snow in summer" - I'd completely forgotten about this |
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| Kantha sample, and practice free-machining feathers with loose bobbin tension |
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From my first grapple with "drawing people" - during a medieval-themed
course with Julia Caprara (1993?) I get a strong sense of some sort of
story happening here... |
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| Gridded buttons - fun to do, but useless |
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| The back of those bright squares - practice free-machining |
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A disappointment: the intense stitching should have been in the background,
to make the insects "pop". But I was an over-enthusiastic beginner, rushing in... |
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| And the underside |
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| Another underside, a bit of campfire carousing |
In the same big box was a little bag, full of offcuts from the outsides of journaly quilts, Little Gems, and Bookwraps. They can be sorted into colour families and stitched together (but, why....) -
Love the back of your bugs but then I like the ' unconscious side' of things. I use my old samples to paint on, machine tension test pieces are particularly pleasing.
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