we had a stitch workshop today with the lovely alison willoughby. what an inspirational, talented woman. dressed in all black, teamed with a trendy hair cut and giant bangles she gave an introduction to hand stitching and how she uses it in her work (£900 skirts... covered in everything!) she came round the group one by one to talk to and find out how we were getting on with the project. she seemed to like my sketch book; laughing at the button heads.
she suggested i shuold;
- look at line and colour gradient; striping down my photos to their simplistic form - like the doodble i do over the top and then translate this into stitch and knit.
- work in a more sophisticated way with stitch, but allowing myself to work over the top in a more messy manner.
- she said to choose a few favourite photos. disect them and translate into needle and thread.
this feedback led me stitching till one in the morning. i was on a inspirational, creative roleeee!
what i need to think about;
- types of thread and wool.
- colour gradients
- knit
- panels, folds
- lines
-blocks
- machine and hand stitch
- more controlled style
- keep having fun
- layout
- scale
- beads, buttons and other embellishments.
- look at jacobean style embroidery and crewel work.
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