Snip and Tuck - The Trials and Errors of an Embroidery Artist
October 30, 2020As a kid my discard pile was quite big, I learnt through process and practice.
Recently, I launched into a larger piece with great enthusiasm, happily stitching away, wrapped up in the process and my ideas.
Then, one morning I looked at the heavily stitched piece and knew instantly that it was not working at all.
I took a deep breathe and some drastic action and started cutting up the embroidery with my big scissors.
I was surprised to be feeling a bit excited by the challenge of figuring out how to turn this piece around. I don’t usually take such extreme measures.
Reimagining the possibilities turned out to be a playful and liberating process as I rebuilt the composition by piecing and re-stitching. Thankfully sometimes textiles can be quite forgiving.