I’m trying to really challenge myself and take some risks.  This piece is definitely doing that.  I’m usually very shy with color., but I’m forcing myself to embrace it here.  I’m also breaking out of neat lines, although it’s hard to tell from this shot.  A core part of the design is that a portion of the final piece will be framed in a round hoop and the rest will “explode” or more likely just escape from the hoop.  It my head, this looks really awesome!

After about 2 weeks of work, I’ve realized that I went in a wrong direction and had to pull out about  2-4 hours worth of stitching.  I’m back down to what you see in the photo.  BUT…I feel like the new direction will be a good one and make the piece more impactful.

I was going to do the whole thing in chain stitch and continue to explore the style of tambour stitch, but no more.  This is probably the end of the chain stitch on this piece.  There might be a little more, but next come the knots!  I think I’m going to move into french and colonial knots and then a new stitch for me: Turkey Stitch (also known as ghiordes knots).

I hope to have some progress to show soon.  I’ll mostly be updating the Work in Progress over on Flickr.

[tags]fiber art, embroidery, chain stitch, tambour stitch, original designs[/tags]