couching
Posted: Friday, 26 September 2008 |
the next 2 stitches were Couching and Knotted Cretan, again I have put both together, the Knotted Cretan stitch is the row of green sticks at the top, I did not like it much, too ridged, making the knot in the middle of the stitch prevented the flow you can achieve with Cretan so I only did one row and will not be doing any more,
Couching I do like and had already done it on some of my other samples so here I have not done lots of different stitches mostly just straight stitch to couch down the thicker thread, the top is couched sequin waste, ribbon, ricrac braid and double thread, the middle is traditional blocks of formal couching and the bottom is free motion couching with a variety of threads, this is the bit I like best,
have a nice weekend,
Couching I do like and had already done it on some of my other samples so here I have not done lots of different stitches mostly just straight stitch to couch down the thicker thread, the top is couched sequin waste, ribbon, ricrac braid and double thread, the middle is traditional blocks of formal couching and the bottom is free motion couching with a variety of threads, this is the bit I like best,
have a nice weekend,
Comments
Great Loch Ness Monster there, IT!
Barney from Swithiod a stich in the loch
Fascinating as ever, IT. I had a lovely book about couching using gold bullion and flat gold - the effects were completely spectacular, and used the same techniques of course as your "traditional" samples. I like the bottom bit, you could use all kinds of interesting knitting yarns etc for this! You too have a good weekend.
Jill from EK
Very pretty indeed IT, I turned your beautiful piece of work around and I saw a caterpillar, seahorse, oh all kinds of things, simply wonderful. Have a good weekend too.
Squidgy the Otter from Upside down world
I have always thought that couching is one of the Cinderellas of stitching. What wonderful effects can be achieved. I agree with you about your bottom...bit...
Flying Cat from With IT au fond
Lovely and colourful Frances. Have a good weekend too. Hope the sun shines!
Julie from lincolnshire
Lovely IT! I like the bottom bit best too--like modern art, you can interpret many ways!
thelovelyOutlander from admiring your work
The moment I saw the last one a picture moved across my internal screen .... a lonely sea-shore after a storm ... debris [animal and vegetable] deposited.
Plaid from Often stitching
Hi, great sample! I chickened out ( sort of) minimal stitch on this one :0
guzzisue from Nottingham UK
The myriad of ways one can manipulate threads and fabric!! Still woefully ignorant, but a little less so, thanks to IT.
mjc from IN, USA
thanks everyone for your lovely comments, I love the way people can see pictures in the couching like pictures in the flames of a fire or clouds in the sky, the middle row of traditional blocks I did in wool I am using up, it was traditionally done in shiny threads, metal threads and silks so the light reflected, this gave the stitches much more depth, guzzisue I saw your little bit of gold couching on the applied petals, very nice, I only did one line of the knotted cretan it didn鈥檛 inspire me at all,
island threads from lewis
Oooh, I love that freeform couching!
Conni from NJ
You see, another great comment bites the electronic dust...and I was so very inspired by 'freeform couching'...it seemed like just the sort of thing a cat could join in with....
Flying Cat from freeform lounging
IT? IIII TTTT? You did not blog recently, not even on a Sunday?!!
mjc from IN, USA
"on the road again" IT? Whereto this time? Hope you are having/have had a great time.
mjc from IN, USA
Do stop nagging mjc! I'm sure IT will blog again when she feels the hand of the muse on her shoulder...or wherever the muse puts her hand...maybe its a paw!
Flying Cat from Tcha!
I got to worrying about IT, FC. Once someone starts painting models in swimming trunks, you never know where the road ends. The possibilities, FC, just think of them!!
mjc from IN, USA
I'm trying very hard not to!
Flying Cat from patting a plump rump
ok so nothing has changed on ib while I have been away, I published a post last night and I see it is still 'processing' I hope it appears before the end of the year, mjc and fc thanks for ammussing chatter and thoughts though I can't imagine some of them......
island threads from lewis
is ib on holiday, strike or something as nothing is happening for me and my blog!!!!!!! have I been sent to coventry???? :o(
island threads from lewis
oophs sorry Conni I have just realised I did not say thank you for your nice comment,
island threads from lewis
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