The fabric I have chosen to work on is nice, clean, cream cotton which I can use like a blank canvas without it making a statement for itself, more like you can make several statements on it. The other fabrics I have used is a coloured cotton and a pink gauze. When I bought the pink gauze I never thought I would work with it (don't know why) but I feel that it works really well with this project and I am pleased with it.
I feel that the scale of marks and shapes work well on the fabric because of the blank canvas effect. I would not of liked to work on any other fabric as it would detract from the design.
I have extended from the ideas I did from the smaller samples but have stuck to the original design but changed the colours abit and added stitching and fabric overlay to make a bigger impact.
I did not really like painting onto fabric - I find it too constrained and it doesn't seem to do what I wanted it to do - I have found the whole assignment rather frustrating and didn't really enjoy myself until I started making marks with stitches! So if this last assignment has taught me anything, it is that stitch is my preferred medium so far but I am quite happy to mix painting and stitch together in the future but not printing!
I feel that I haven't put my heart and soul into this latest work and I feel quite despondent about it so I am going to submit it and then forget about it and start again with the next piece of work that I start.
I am going to use this blog now for ideas that I find and work it alongside my book which is my log book.
Here is some inspiration from embroiderersguild.com which I am liking very much
