The challenge for this month is to combine two or more of the embroidery styles of your choice in one piece. The idea is to think out or the box
For instance combine needleweaving and chicken scratch, or Pattern darning and found objects or Asissi and laid work patterns.
These are just a few ideas but the combinations and possibilities are endless.
Lately I have been exploring stitching a small cloth that I originally patchworked together then taking the silhouettes of a leaf shapes stitched in the negative space like you would in Assisi embroidery. Only this time I worked off the grid and stitches are definitely not evenweave stitches.
I am still working on the piece so I will see how it develops.
Note: If you click on the images it will take you to a larger photo
How to participate in the stitch explorer challenge
Stitch some samples that push this embroidery style
Blog it or put images somewhere online where people can see them. If you use flickr send them to the Stitchexplorer group
Come back to this post and leave a comment with your web address in it so that people can visit and see what you have done.
Note if when you leave a comment, if you fill in the form with your URL, it means that when people click on your name they will be taken to your blog.
Have fun with this months challenge!
Sharon Thankyou for dropping by my blog and for your encouraging comment.
Are you running a challenge next year? I do hope so.
Hi Sharon, I finished my sampler of stitches for the year and posted the photo to my blog.
http://crazyqstitcher.wordpress.com/
Sharon, How amazing! I have recently finished a piece of stitching that fulfilled the criteria – and coincidentally I chose gum leaves for my voided shape. I used the Assisi style and needleweaving as well as some foursided stitch from the Casalguidi embroidery.
I have just added the image to my blog.
Paisley Design for Hand Embroidery
this link doesn’t work. If you are able to fix it could you email the link please.
thanks,
M