Chapter Twelve

Joy, oh joy Open Live Writer - it worked a treat :-)

Stitched trial samples for Resolved Sample

Fabric manipulation method

 
Image 12.1 – Butter muslin gathered in a wavy line with black crochet cotton
Image 12.2 – Butter muslin stitched with triple needle using black, cream and multi coloured thread.

Image 12.3 – Butter muslin stitched with wide double needle with wool trapped on reverse

Image 12.4 – Butter muslin stitched with vertical and horizontal pin tucks and then pressed open.

Hand stitching method


Image 12.5 – Chevron stitch worked on calico using embroidery thread, cotton thread, thick cotton thread, black and white crochet thread and beige knitting cotton.

Image 12.6 – Fancy wool and cream ribbon couched on calico using Cretan and detached chain stitches.

Image 12.7 – Back stitch worked on calico and then woven loosely with black and white crochet cotton and beige knitting cotton.

Image 12.8 – Chain stitch worked on calico with a variety of sized stitches using white embroidery thread, black and white crochet thread and beige knitting thread.

Combined fabric manipulation plus hand stitching


Image 12.9 – Satin stitch worked on gathered organza in a variety of embroidery thread colours .

Image 12.10 – Chevron stitched worked in a variety of sizes using white cotton, black and white crochet thread and beige knitting cotton on gathered butter muslin.

Image 12.11 – Pin tucks worked on white linen and fixed in place in opposite directions using feather stitch worked with varigated perle and black crochet cotton.

Image 12.12 – Chevron stitch using pale green and variegated perle on gathered grey organza layered with gold net.

As a reminder this is my chosen design shape

Using MS Publisher I have now experimented with three options – one using a plain background and the other with the double pintuck as a background.  A gap would be left between each shape to show the background.

    
Option One and One a
    
Option Two and Two a
    
Option Three and Three a

Whether I use the plain background or the pintuck background I would work the four main shapes on Vilene and attach after giving a raised effect.

I really like the pintuck background because it joins the individual shapes together so my current favourite would be Option Two a.

I chose to create the samples using natural colours but I do wonder if I need to introduce some colour – if I used similar colours perhaps I could add some colour at a later date if necessary. 

I like the mixture of fabrics, the soft butter muslin, the organza/net, the calico and the linen and hopefully as the butter muslin is pintucked horizontally and vertically it will be strong enough to support the individual shapes when they are attached.

Chapter Ten

Stitch to translate



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In this chapter I was asked to translate some of my rubbings into stitchery using mainly one stitch for each but varying the threads and form of stitch.

I chose four of my paper samples and put a piece of black cotton on top.  Using a white markel stick I rubbed the image onto the fabric.  I may have put too much markel on so I turned the material over and was very pleased that the marks had gone through leaving a more defined image behind.

I used one of my favourite books, The Constance Howard Book of Stitches as inspiration for my choice of stitch.

	Chosen stitch	Chosen threads	Evaluation
10.1	Mixture of bullion knot, bullion knot with tail and French knots	Machine embroidery thread, cotton thread, cotton knitting thread, cotton knitting ribbon	I chose this stitch because I could see a lot of heavy lines but wanted a change from couching.  I have not used bullion knots very much in the past so this was good practice and I was interested to find I was able to use quite thick threads and ribbons.
10.2	Stem stitch and couching	Machine embroidery thread, cotton thread, cotton knitting thread, cotton knitting ribbon and cotton bouclé	I chose this stitch because I wanted a linear effect.  As in the previous sample I was interested to see how I could use quite thick ribbons and threads.  I used a tapestry needle and this made a good sized hole for the thread to go through.  I used a variety of sizes of stitch.
10.3	Chevron stitch	Machine embroidery thread, cotton thread, cotton knitting thread, cotton knitting ribbon and cotton bouclé	I chose this stitch because I could see a number of parallel lines on the fabric and I like the effect achieved when using the different size of stitch.  I used a mixture of joined and random chevron stitches.  Again I used a variety of threads and also tried weaving into the stitch.
10.4	Fly stitch	Machine embroidery thread, cotton thread, cotton knitting thread, cotton knitting ribbon	I chose this stitch because I could see a lot of the Y shapes in the rubbing.  I used individual stitches in a variety of threads and also some interlocking sets of stitches.