Saturday, January 13, 2007
01 13 07 Herringbone stitch on evenweave
On the cotton block 001 I used herringbone stitch on one corner and it made a pattern that i wanted to play with. i duplicated here and then tried to see how else it would look if it was repeated in more rows. Next i want to try it on plain weave again and perfect some of the spacing . My favorite result is the variegated sample of several rows.
01 13 07-Stitch Practice Chain stitch
here is the chain stitch practice piece finally finished....i started it so long ago that i didn;t know whether to label it under UFO's or not.... but at any rate..here it is.
I call these things stitch practices because i am not really exploring all the variations of a sttich, I am just practicing making the stitch with ONE thread and ONE parameter. In this case it was using DMC 6 stand-one strand and figuring out what that would look like covering a solid area, or making lines....how tight of a curve or a point could i make with this stitch and what adjustments in the sttich would i need to make in order to do what i wanted....now i know! First i drew out the words...Chains of thread and chain stitched the letters..then i kept chain stitching lines with curves and made some shapes. Then I made some more lines within the shapes to make some patterns and started filling in the areas with chain stitch. 99% of the surface on this piece is chain stitch and there is some long and short and satin stitch filling in. I did that not becuase i couldn;t have used the chain stitch but because by this time i was a little tired of doing it.......lol.....you can see how that might happen I am sure.
Next up for my exploration of the chain stitch is to use a larger diameter fiber.I know this will result in open spaces in the stitch unless i pull it tight or make short sttiches so one of the challenges will be to decide to fill in the open space or leave it as is.
Bloggere still has not fixed the comments thing so if you are so inclined...here is my email: katiejayinpaATgmailDOTcom
I call these things stitch practices because i am not really exploring all the variations of a sttich, I am just practicing making the stitch with ONE thread and ONE parameter. In this case it was using DMC 6 stand-one strand and figuring out what that would look like covering a solid area, or making lines....how tight of a curve or a point could i make with this stitch and what adjustments in the sttich would i need to make in order to do what i wanted....now i know! First i drew out the words...Chains of thread and chain stitched the letters..then i kept chain stitching lines with curves and made some shapes. Then I made some more lines within the shapes to make some patterns and started filling in the areas with chain stitch. 99% of the surface on this piece is chain stitch and there is some long and short and satin stitch filling in. I did that not becuase i couldn;t have used the chain stitch but because by this time i was a little tired of doing it.......lol.....you can see how that might happen I am sure.
Next up for my exploration of the chain stitch is to use a larger diameter fiber.I know this will result in open spaces in the stitch unless i pull it tight or make short sttiches so one of the challenges will be to decide to fill in the open space or leave it as is.
Bloggere still has not fixed the comments thing so if you are so inclined...here is my email: katiejayinpaATgmailDOTcom
Seed pods of the Crow's Ash, Teak [flindersia australis]
01 13 06
One of the things I like to do bvedfore i get going for the day is check out the photos of my contacts on flickr...there are always some amazing images of things...from sttiching to stars...and there is almost always something i find that i want to translate into sttiching in some way. This photo is one of those..not only interesting in it's own right, but also all that texture!
...the photo is from Jiggs' photostream on flickr.
And now that i am awake ....lol......(after a night at the local crisis center) maybe my hands will stop being asleep I can do what i need to do and start sttiching sometime this evening!
ktj
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