{"id":9559,"date":"2025-06-11T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:03:54","slug":"expressive-stitch-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9559","title":{"rendered":"Expressive Stitch, Take #2."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I found a few more photos from Dorothy Caldwell’s Expressive Stitch<\/em> workshop that led into my previous post<\/a> This workpiece, on black+tan cotton, has never been out of my sight for long, really, as I’ve repeatedly pinned it up and taken it down from my design wall many times over the years as space permitted. I’ve never got sick of it , and now I realise just how much influence this workshop has had on the what I’ve done since. Some of these styles I haven’t used much, like the heavy line of 6-strand embroidery floss couched down with one thread.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There are 7 dots down the left side of the black, and I remember there were instructions to begin stitching a particular way begnning at each of those dots. The triangular insert, (upper RHC) wandering couched line, and the dotted line+french knot filler (lower RHC) were added after the blindfolds came off.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Here’s a closer look – I don’t think I’ve ever done a trianglular insert, but there’s some interesting potential there…. and that next line down covered with irregular stitches I’ve used quite a lot, as I also have with running stitch + dots or knots .<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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After learning about Kantha we worked our own personal images, though I don’t remember what the instructions were. Obviously I didn’t finish one and am pretty sure it’s <\/em>still unfinished in the sample box…<\/em><\/strong>was I going to display it with the white on black as a pair, perhaps? I get the eucalyptus leaves and gumnuts, but have no idea what the two adults and child one was about …<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I’ve often commented how hard it is to achieve irregularity, as it requires fighting against the natural rhythm of your stitching !<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a few more photos from Dorothy Caldwell’s Expressive Stitch workshop that led into my previous post This workpiece, on black+tan cotton, has never been out of my sight for long, really, as I’ve repeatedly pinned it up and taken it down from my design wall many times over the years as space permitted. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-2ub","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}