Embroidery: hand stitch week three.

In this final week of hand embroidery, I have been continuing with sample development, learning and moving on from last weeks successes and failings. A group critic with the machine group has been very helpful in preparing my  thoughts and ideas for machine stitch and showed me the possibilities for progressing my work into machine stitch.

Squared hand stitch samples- mapping line drawings and inverted maps.

Inspired by some mark making drawings which I did relating to map imagery, these two samples have been really successful. Again I like the inverted look these samples have of each other, and also the marks and lines look very effective and interesting. They also relate well too both my drawings and research, and I think that techniques in machine stitch will allow me too develop these ideas much further.

Running and wide ladder stitch- map lines & filling negative space.

I also think this samples is very successful,I like the way the long stretched ladder stitch fills up the blocks of black, as without this the sample would not be as effective or interesting as it is. I also think the thread colour choice in this sample makes it so successful, as the white really stands out against the black and the grey gives it good tone.

Running and ladder stitch- compact map lines.

Due to the simplicity and lack of detailed sections in this sample, compared too the other samples I have done this week it is not as successful. This is because it shows much less development and structure like the others.

Overall, I have really enjoyed hand stitch over the past three weeks, and I'm really looking forward to be able too expand my knowledge of techniques as well as samples and ideas through machine stitch. I think that machine stitch will give me the opportunity to push my project much further and create new exciting samples.