Posted by Agnes Iley , Sunday, November 7, 2010 6:49 AM
Textures
Create textures, woohoo, that’s just my cup of tea!
Being a 3D-girl I am always trying to create textures….in fabric, textures in stitch????
Hmmm, not really… o.k. I couch and embellish and fix folds and pleats with stitch, but real textural stitching? That’s new to me.
I decided to go for the bark of a redwood tree; the redwoods that I saw on our latest trip to the States were so impressive. Not just for their colours, but also for the texture of the bark.
And seeing as my last sample was completely done by machine, I found that I needed to this one by hand. I must admit that I didn’t follow the brief to the letter. Seeing as I know how to create textures with fabrics and textural yarns, I really wanted to concentrate on creating textural stitches, so I used regular embroidery threads. This meant I didn’t have the colours to match my sketch exactly, but I didn’t mind that (I just hope my tutor doesn’t either), I just concentrated on creating texture through stitch.
But which stitches to use? A bit of googling resulted in the following information:
Chain stitch is sometimes used as an underlay for other stitches, to raise the surface.
Brazilian embroidery is a form of very textural embroidery and they have got a guild that shows some of the stitches on their website.
So after some practice I decided on chain stitch, bullion stitch and cast on stitch for the raised work and a simple back stitch for the lower areas.
I also realized this sample was going to be much smaller then my previous sample.
These stitches are very time consuming. This small sample took me three evenings to do!
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