Embroidery: hand stitch week one.

Week one of hand embroidery after Christmas- has been about learning new stitches of my choice and developing with these stitches. I chose wheatear, cross, blanket, herringbone and feather stitch.

Wheatear stitch sample inspired my mapping drawings, focussing on filling the negative space.

Of the samples I have produced this week, this is my success. The composition of lines and difference in line is really interesting, and the filling in of negative space with the wheat eater stitch works really well and gives the sample a graphic feel.

This idea of filling negative is something I'd like too explore.

Feather stitch- map line drawing sample.

This sample is much more unsuccessful. Although I like the feather stitch and I think it could work well in my hand stitch samples, the lines and composition I have used are what makes it unsuccessful. Compared too the other samples I have done, this is much more simple, and the shades of grey and black don't work as well as the black, whites and creams I have been using in the others.