Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Textiles - Machine Embriodery


A few weeks ago I started a textiles course and I've chosen to go with 'machine embroidery'.  The first couple of weeks we spent being creative.  We had to choose a theme for inspiration, I chose 'trees' and the design element is 'line'.  Yes, I know you don't get purple and blue trees but we had to eventually add colour.  This, I think was my third paper sample.


Then last week we transformed our paper creation onto fabric. The idea was to get as many lines of straight stitch in as we could. I used a multi-coloured thread of blues and yellow as a contrast and then added even more lines in with a navy blue.

Obviously this is only a very simple sample, but I thought I'd share my first one with you.

10 comments:

  1. Oh crikey, Sam, the straight lines would have had me thrown out of the class! lol

    Great start to your course. Looking forward to seeing more in the weeks to come.

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  2. Ooh, trees! I ADORE trees. Love the colours you chose and can't wait to see how this progresses.

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  3. Interesting I bet your having lots of fun, look forward to more
    Hugs Kate xx

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  4. Cool trees and the colours the lines look very very striaght. xx Zoe

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  5. Beautiful Sam, lovely colours. Looking forward to seeing more.
    xxx Hazel.

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  6. Looks like you've been having fun, these three samples look great!

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  7. Excellent interpretation of trees and the colours are great, it doesn't matter that the colours aren't 'tree' colours 'coz it's artistic license.

    xxxxxxxxx

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  8. Just love those colours - good luck with the course - you are producing some fabulous pieces. II am reading backwards through your blog)

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