Designing from landscapes

Lastly I used a few pieces of decorated paper left over and made a spiral just because I like them!

I repeated numbers 5 and 6 in decorated papers which more closely resembled the various areas on the original photo.

Next I tried out a couple of more abstract ways of subdividing the paper.

I have chosen 3 of my photos and drawn possible ways of subdividing the spaces. I have numbered a couple in each then used torn decorated paper to see how these would work.

Module 5 - revisions

The second used a fine polyester crepe de chine which forms much softer folds and I held these down with feather stitch in a fine cotton thread. Under this layer I used fly stitches in a very fine thread but it is difficult to see these in the photo.

Lastly I have redone one of my samples for chapter 8 showing fabric manipulation. One shows crumpled cotton organdie set with an iron; the creases are held in place using fine linen thread and fly stitches. I have then pleated the fabric to represent the denser areas of paper and held these down with layers of heringbone stitch using thicker thread.

In the third sample I have added couching of ribbon, stem stitch and chain stitch.

In the second I have tried to represent the hazy effect of the rubbing with torn gauzy paper and fine fly stitches. I have tried to represent movement using changing stitch direction.

On Sian's advice I have redone the chapter 9 stitching samples and increased the density and complexity. In the first I have added stem stitch, straight stitch and fly stitch in different thicknesses of thresd.

More texture ideas

Ihave done more drawings of texture from my images and then tried to develop these ideas into raised, 3D textures using anything I could find and think of. Here are the results'