07 24 06 Two Stitch Challeng Pics(old blog post)

Here are two pics of some very small embroidered "tiles" using crochet cotton. One variegated and one white. This was for a stitch challenge on the Yahoo group-The Stitching Post(my group. The idea was to use only the two stitches-blanket and chain with only two colors and just play around with how the stitches interact. The background had to be a medium blue.We could use as many different types of threads as we could, but i found that i simply enjoyed using the cotton.

The simpler piece is just the two stitches and works pretty well i think. There is one place i would lilke to add a bit of white, but other than that glaring omission(to me) i think it is done done DONE!

the second, nore complicated piece was a lot of fun, but more troublesome. I kept wanting it to be done and it woudn;t stay finished! Every thing i did led to the percieved need to balance it somewhere else which...and on and on......finally i realized that it really needed were dots and lines...and so i added french knots and straight stitches. So much for being able to stay with in the challenge guidelines!

Let me know what you all think, ok? Negative is ok, tactful is good.
ktj

07 04 06 Stitching Post Challenge(old post)

The

Stitching Post

is doing a Two Stitch Challenge right now.It's a further exploration of the chain stitch and blanket sttich on one piece.. The design area is 8 by 10 and those in the group who are participating are doing it on a medium-blue piece of plain weave fabric. Further, we are limited to using only two colors of thread. We aren't limited in the number of different types of thread to use so there will be lots of ways to explore what the stitches look like and ways they can be used with each other to create pattern and texture.

The line drawing below is one i just finished. If you click on it will open bigger and then if you click again it opens to the original size. This can be saved and will print out to 8x10. This is for personal use only please, and i would love to see what anyone does with it. One of the members of the list and I are tossing around the idea of doing a one by one rr with a small design and i thought this might be something we could use. After finishing it i thought maybe folks on my list would enjoy it, and maybe others as well. I think it lends itself to all sorts of treatments....many of the shapes can be altered all left out all-together and you could use the bigger shapes to make a needle-lace or point lace design practice piece. I think it would also lend itself quite well to practicing crewel fillings of all kinds.And then, last but not least, i also think it could easily be adapted to all sorts of free-surface embroidery combinations.




let me know what you think..

ktj