A few years ago (2005-ish, 2006-ish) I took free machine embroidery class at
CityLit.
In the first class the tutor got us to make a paper collage, based on a picture we had chosen. Some people put a lot of effort into it. One girl made beautiful feathery projections from tissue paper. Then the tutor asked us to cut our collage in half - gasps! - and use one half to make something new.
What a brilliant exercise. First of all be able to kill your darlings, secondly treat everything as inspiration.
Here are a few of the things I made during the course.
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| Art Class - free machine embroidery of my class |
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| Art Class - detail |
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| Art Class - the back - detail |
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| Lady with big lipstick - pink thread on denim |
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| Boys - thread on denim with brown paper to strengthen - this is actually the back |
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| Boys - blue thread on denim - this is the front and is hard to see |
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| Free machining in a hoop on left and on dissolvable plastic on the right |
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| Free machining on dissolvable plastic - detail |
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| Free machining in a hoop - detail |
In a more recent class at the CityLit the tutor, Amarjeet Nandhra, liked to see the back of embroidered pieces and I've now also picked up a fascination for the back.
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