Ongoing...

Sorry for the poor image here - a very crumpled piece of ongoing embroidery. It is slow going as I tend to do a bit and then leave it and then go back to it eventually. I'm not very sure how I feel about this piece. I feel the space at the top of the image would be a chance to embroider something different, so I am thinking on that at the moment. I am also still unsure of what sort of object this will turn out to be. So the the overriding theme on this is "unsure", however I would really like to come to some sort of conclusion on this as there is a lot of work already in it.

Ferns and Faces Pattern

I had a play on Photoshop with an image and came up with this. Not at all happy with it really. I printed it on dyed grey cotton and it was a bit of an experiment for something different. I like how the faces stop being faces in a way and just become part of a larger pattern, but that's it really.

Ferns and Faces

I finally got the fern and faces print done. I printed a few, on calico and on fabric I had dyed different tones of grey. It is hard to tell the different fabrics on these photos but never mind. I like the simplicity of the one colour image. I will work into them a bit with embroidery at a later date I think.

I left the faces out of another print, with the idea being to embroider the faces in later on. This will take quite a while but i think it will prove to be pretty interesting.

Grumpy Girls

This is, once again, printed on calico. The think that when I blasted the screen after exposing it I didn't quite blast it enough on one section. I hid this by fully embroidering the inner section, which has the added bonus of giving a different texture (though this is more noticeable through touching it and less so when just looking). I really like the way the image as a whole is quite decorative and created a striking pattern. I'm not sure if it's just me, but it also somehow has quite a communist aesthetic? I also enjoy the grumpy faces a lot.

calico girls

finally have been doing some full prints from the trials i have been doing. this is on calico which i think i prefer to the cotton. but i have also printed on the cotton now - images to follow! next step is to start the stitching process.

screen print on cotton

I also finally got a three layer print done recently that I have been working on steadily for a while (with little urgency!). But it's finally something I can experiment with. I went for some brighter colours just as a random trial really on some small samples. The last image is pretty poor as it was taken with rare sunlight streaming in.