Chapter 11 - fabric samples

I began this chapter playing with paper - the combinations of strips, colours and patterns are, I suspect, literally endless. I stopped after doing eleven samples.

 

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I then stitched on some of my printed and bleached fabrics, though forgot to take photographs of some of these before I started cutting into them to make pieced samples.

 

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At Sian's suggestion I also overdyed some of my purchased fabrics with interesting results.

 

 

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The next task was to choose some of my designs to translate into fabric. I made three small samples ...

 

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I also pieced a larger sample with embellished seams - lots of prairie points, bundles of threads, wrapped threads and bullion loops.

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Finally in this chapter, we were asked to produce a larger sample similar to the one made for chapter 10 but this time from embroidered and patterned fabrics. As I had hated the earlier piece so much, this time I had to produce something neater and more attractive to my eye ...

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... and just hope that it is acceptable.