Embroidered Collage

This time I ran through a bunch of the needleweaving stitches in Jill Nordfors' book.

The weaving stitches are not horribly entertaining in and of themselves, but they would be fun to play with in layering with various weights of threads and such.  The woven band variations were supposed to form patterns, but I think they needed to be much closer together together and I'm not that patient nowadays unless I use really thick thread.  The way they were done was interesting, though.

The honeycomb filling is supposed to be more regular than that.  I like the idea of crossing from multiple directions, but I won't be following a regular pattern like this was supposed to be.  There are interesting little swirls at the intersections of the double bar filling and it was fun to work, but the twisted lattice was my definitely my favorite.  I wonder how I can vary it.  I don't see myself using the laced lattice filling, but it does look kind of neat. 

Cretan filling will be another fun way to play with a weave.  I've used it before in traditional settings.  All three of these fillings were fun.  The movement of the ghost stitch was very soothing and watching the pattern develop was nifty.  The overcast fillings on the grids tantalize me with thoughts of different weights of thread, just like the weaving.