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.