Chapter 3

The edges below were worked in a frame to keep both fabric and film under tension and safer to work..

 

 

The fringes were great to do and the varigated threads worked really well

 

The grid samples were also worked in a frame even tough they are" foot on".

 The piece in the centre is worked using a pale thread and doesn't show up well.

 I have included photos of the feathers as they look lost on the page.

Painting on soluble paper was not a great success.  My first experiment ended in a slimey mass and other attempts are shown here.  Perhaps my Acrylic paints are not thick enough ( I will try a different brand when I can get some). 

 
This sample is a little better.  Both sides of the printed birds was painted with Acrylic Wax but this applie quite liberally and this stopped all the paper around the birds from being removed.  

 The soluble sticky film is much more successful giving so many possibilities for other ideas, as the sample right below which could be workrd on a much larger scale for a lampshade.

 

The grid has obscured the Granite Stitch detail but on the whole I am pleased with this experiment.  Sample worked in a hop.

 I used a narrow strip for the insertion sample but a much wider piece would work equally well

 

 

 

 

 I worked a sample using rows of automatic patterns on soluble film in Module One (Ch 4 page 7) which was quite successful.

Chapter 2 focal points etc

I have added pins to show focal points.

I found this picture in the paper, as it's a double page I stuck it to the door and  took a photo. It was just too good to miss.

This is my new machine table.  It's a Horn Foldaway and its prooving great for free machining.

Chapter 2

 

 

 I tried printing with my Kho-I-Noor paints but they weren't very successful so I tested the colours in fabric paints to give hot and cool colour range

 and tested the bird print on paper

I chose a white cotton 11" by 7" for my samples to show the patterns clearly.

 Print on stitch pattern. 
 I added yellow to some of the eyes for a highlight

Pattern repetition of shapes and spaces.
  the nests were stitched with Cable Stitch.  Some twigs wwere solid, others just outlines.  I used Acrylic paint to be sure of printing through the stitching onto the fabric.  A pink highlight is used in the centre.

Enlarging pattterns. 
 I tried to base the colour scheme on thep icture of the cockrel in my  research.  the metallic green highlight in the centre looks lost.

 

 

 

Border designs, repeating designs.

 Stitched with Granite stitch(red) and the yellow stitching at an angle to give stitched texture.

 

 

Altered pattern. 

 My drawing of eggs and the design for the printing block. 

and the altered tracing.

Some of the shapes are filled with Vermicelli and an emerald green highlight in the centre.  this looks better on the screen than it did in real live so a dusty purple filling of Vermicelli was added next to it.

Thiner and thiner lines in pattern.

The feet were stitched using Perle 5, Perle 8, two threads of machine embroidery thread in the needle, then one thread and finally a 60s bobbin thread. One shape was printed in the opposite direction to the others and outlined with purple to contrast with the paler varigated thread ot the other stitching.

All my samples on the door.

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