Sunday, 10 July 2011

Chapter 3 – Tonal Effects in Machine Stitchery (c)

I stitched six strips of fabric which had a thin Vilene on the reverse to provide support.  (To view the images close up please click on them and they will take you to the source image). 

Image 1 – Fabric strips:

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Image 2 – Straight stitch with zigzags introduced along the length:

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Image 3 – As above but with a second line of stitching mirroring the first:

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Image 4 – Good old basic zigzags:

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Image 5 – Straight stitch with zigzag introduced (as in image 2) but with a change of needle position and no gradual change of zigzag stitch width:

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Image 6 – A decorative stitch (honeycomb?), this seemed to take forever to complete!:

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Image 7 – Straight stitch in three directions:

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