When this challenge was announced, I immediately thought of all of the wonderful Shibori fabric I have created over the past couple of years. While I've used many colours, a fair bit of it was done in blues. Looking through the various fabrics, I found this table centre that I started working on a couple of years ago. This was during a time that my arthritis was making itself known. When I saw this, I had to accept the reality that it is unlikely that I will ever start any other hand stitched project. I am no longer capable, but --I could finish this! A sort of "last Hurrah".
While I can't really call this "art", I did create the dyeing design on the fabric, and then used that as a basis for the stitching design. I used a fairly coarse running stitch, using Coton a Broder--somewhat reminiscent of Sashiko. My days of 20+ stitches to the inch are long gone. :(
I feel a great sense of accomplishment with this, and welcome any comments.
Pat Findlay
aka fndlmous
There is something very meditative about hand-stitching, and it certainly "works" on this piece, like sashiko.
ReplyDeleteI thing the "big stitch" is perfect for this piece. Twenty- two stitches per inch would not have been as effective. jMHO.
ReplyDeleteLove the hand stitching on this piece. Simple but effective.
ReplyDeleteHand stitching is beautiful. I too can no longer use my thumbs because of severe, painful arthritis. I think because of this challenge, I appreciate the hand work more.
ReplyDeleteWhat I love is the texture of the color pattern in the fabric. I agree that smaller stitches would be lost in this piece. I like the effect of the white stitches next to the dark blue stitch lines.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely piece!
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