This week i have been experimenting with hand embroidery!
For the past few weeks at College i have been doing a lot of screen printing, so i started out by buying fabrics to match my colour palette which i have been using for my current project.
I have been using my fabrics and then printing my own designs onto my fabrics using a technique called screen printing which is a very easy technique but its also rather messy!
I then decided i would try out a bit of hand embroidery on top of my printed designs, but first i started out by using a plain piece of fabric and experimenting with different embroidery techniques to see which techniques i liked best.
(Me trying out different embroidery techniques)
I thought i would try out a technique called 'seeding' on top of a screen print for my first go as i thought it would be a nice technique to use for this particular design and i thought it gave it a nice effect. Plus i feel like the colours compliment each other rather well.
(Seeding technique)
The next technique i thought i would try was just a simple backstitch. I really like this technique because its very simple, yet you can get some great results with it. I decided to use the backstitch technique by taking a silhouette of a leaf that i had drawn, then screen printing it onto my fabric and then using backstitch to then hand embroider all of the delicate lines on top of the silhouette.
(Backstitch technique)
I have left one side of the leaf bare just simply because i like the effect of it. In time i may add beads and different threads to it to see what effects i get with that. Underneath is my finished sample, i really enjoyed this technique and i will definitely be using it more thought this projects and other projects in the future.
(Backstitch technique)
