October 21st Hand embroidery Experiment, Expand and Explore Alison Parkes
Alison started the day by showing how we could use our source material to make a background on either cotton or felt and then using a felting tool or the machine we could start to build it up.
Here are some of Alison’s backgrounds
She then asked us to look at our threads and decide between different weights to create a colour palette
Once we had done that she showed how using a variety of stitches that we could build upon the felted background. Using just one stitch eg French knots
Or Blanket stitch
in different weights of threads can build up an interesting surface.
Here are some of us working during the day
And then what we had achieved by the end of the day
