I spent all of Wednesday doing my first machine sample. It was based on my drawings of boulder brain coral and strontianite. I started by sewing the brain coral as I like the interesting shape and I thought the differing weights of line would create an interesting aspect to play around with.
The strontianite was added using stitched bondawebbed pieces as I felt when I had placed the coral the rest of the A3 sample was lacking somehow. I felt that the shape of the strontianite could bring together the piece effectively.
Halfway through the day four of us were chosen to speak to the lecturers individually along with a student teacher from the GSA. I spoke first about my project to the group and I really felt that I could talk through my work effectively and I do believe that it has alot to do with keeping this blog.
As I'm writing about my work I really feel that I am remembering my thought processes better and I can really explain my work in a more coherant way.
My lecturers and the student teacher gave their comments about my work. I was told that I should try to make my embroidery not quite as tight and to play around with scale. As my journal pages were different sizes which you probably cant see properly in the photographs, my lecturer who takes us for guidance suggested that I make a fabric book with different sized samples. I'm not sure how I feel about that and for now I think I'll keep them separate till I have them all done but it's something to keep in mind. All of the lecturers agreed that making photocopies of my work and using the photocopies to pay around with scale would be a good idea.
The strontianite was added using stitched bondawebbed pieces as I felt when I had placed the coral the rest of the A3 sample was lacking somehow. I felt that the shape of the strontianite could bring together the piece effectively.Halfway through the day four of us were chosen to speak to the lecturers individually along with a student teacher from the GSA. I spoke first about my project to the group and I really felt that I could talk through my work effectively and I do believe that it has alot to do with keeping this blog.
As I'm writing about my work I really feel that I am remembering my thought processes better and I can really explain my work in a more coherant way.
My lecturers and the student teacher gave their comments about my work. I was told that I should try to make my embroidery not quite as tight and to play around with scale. As my journal pages were different sizes which you probably cant see properly in the photographs, my lecturer who takes us for guidance suggested that I make a fabric book with different sized samples. I'm not sure how I feel about that and for now I think I'll keep them separate till I have them all done but it's something to keep in mind. All of the lecturers agreed that making photocopies of my work and using the photocopies to pay around with scale would be a good idea.
In my free time I managed to take one of the corals and enlarge the scale and stitch the pattern of the coral onto fabric which had an interesting effect.
On Friday of this week it was Hand Embroidery Day. I really found the concept of today weird as our lecturers are usually telling us that we should be doing hand embroidery at home because they want us to take advantage of our access to the machines.
I wasn't really sure what to do so I started by embroidering some of my drawings onto black cotton. I thought that if I couldn't think of a non literal way to do it then I should use my time wisely and put together a literal sample.
I took me all day to finish the hand embroidery and even then I suspect that I should go in with some colour as I have only been using grey thread in different weights onto black cotton.
So far my samples aren't really forming as a collection. I think that it's because of the hand embroidery. As I have done it in black it doesn't quite fit with the rest of my samples. I think bringing in colour to all my samples will help with this.
On Friday of this week it was Hand Embroidery Day. I really found the concept of today weird as our lecturers are usually telling us that we should be doing hand embroidery at home because they want us to take advantage of our access to the machines.
I wasn't really sure what to do so I started by embroidering some of my drawings onto black cotton. I thought that if I couldn't think of a non literal way to do it then I should use my time wisely and put together a literal sample.
I took me all day to finish the hand embroidery and even then I suspect that I should go in with some colour as I have only been using grey thread in different weights onto black cotton.
So far my samples aren't really forming as a collection. I think that it's because of the hand embroidery. As I have done it in black it doesn't quite fit with the rest of my samples. I think bringing in colour to all my samples will help with this.
Bobbi Jean Shields
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