And Implications Thereof
Beth Robinson
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If the stitch is going to be my stated subject of interest then I really do need to do the samplers I've been putting off. I've thought about them from time to time, going through the books and systematically stitching variations, but always had some other project to do. Even if I all I choose to use for a piece is straight and couching stitches, I should have the greater vocabulary to hand.
I'll still need to continue developing my skills and ideas for the supports, because often that is where the greater part of the emotion or message or image will be. There's a collage class in the fall nearby that I intend to take. And I'll need to develop a greater sense of where the stitches will go, being able to expect them, without necessarily deliberately planning them out, so that they are fully integrated into the composition, unless, of course, the point for a particular piece is that they won't be.
It really is amazing how much the direction that you're coming from can change your perception, when that which you are looking at hasn't changed at all.
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I find that I am being drawn to stitching as a major part of my work, too. I've avoided it somewhat in the immediate past. Problems with my eye that make threading needles difficult. But the sense that mark making is an important element in my art won't go away.
So I'm trying to embrace it.
We are a whole subgroup... we mark makers who quilt.. Anxious to see photos of your work. and watch how you progress