More Progress.

More progress.

Hopefully a present for someone. Started yesterday. So far, we have French knots, woven wheels (whipped and unwhipped) bullion knots, cast on stitch, button hole wheel, heavy chain, and stem stitch.

I took a day off from work today. Over the last week and a half I'd written 5000 words (this is a lot for me, I'm a slow writer) and sent it off to my supervisor last night. I figured I'd earned a break, so I spent the morning working on the Iliad, and then started this project this afternoon. This is my modern embroidery sampler. The technique hasn't changed; the alphabet has.

I can’t remember if I’ve shared these before. These are two test pieces I did before starting the Iliad, experimenting with different colours assigned to different letters. I used Blake’s poem ‘The Tyger’ from ‘Songs of Experience’ because Blake. The black lines in between each line of text are designed to give a tiger-stripe feel. The length of each black line corresponds to the length of the lines in the poem ‘The Lamb’ which is often seen as the corresponding poem to The Tyger from the Songs of Innocence.

Edit: to me, on a personal level, these two pieces make a perfect pair. The one on the left is called ‘The Tyger’ the one on the right is called ‘The Tiger’. You see, I made a spelling mistake. Amusingly and perhaps ironically, this is the exact opposite of the mistake people usually make with my own name (they write Sylvie and I’m Silvie). Perhaps I should sign my name wrongly on ‘The Tiger’. :P

A-H (8/36) they all scan. Qrafter is the best free iPhone app I've found for scanning QR codes. I was thinking of making a mini gif-set tutorial for some of the more complicated woven stitches (such as the big squares on E and H), if anyone would be interested.

12/36. One third done. It's really nice to have a project that doesn't take months/years to complete.