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Posted by Shanti on June 6, 2009, 1:04 pm
Hi everyone!
I'm doing a fairly major project as part of an even bigger project at
a local church in Oxford. The plan is to depict each book of the Bible
in an A5-sized piece of felt. I've taken on the four Gospels (I'm a
Hindu!!!) and I've already finished one. I chose the texts about bread
and vine in St. John to embroider an intertwined vine and wheatsheaf.
That was the easy bit. For the other three panels, I've got to do
figures and faces: Sermon on the Mount for Matthew, calming the storm
for Mark and the Good Shepherd for Luke. In most cases, I'm hoping to
get away with cutting out figures on different cloths and laying them
as appliques. But I've got to embroider the face in at least two
cases, and I have no idea how to go about it. I've never done this
before, and my instinctive idea is to follow the traced outline. But
just before putting needle to cloth, I decided to ask for expert
opinion on this forum.
Regards,
Shanti.
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Posted by Dianne Lewandowski on June 6, 2009, 7:08 pm
Shanti wrote:
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> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm doing a fairly major project as part of an even bigger project at
> a local church in Oxford. The plan is to depict each book of the Bible
> in an A5-sized piece of felt. I've taken on the four Gospels (I'm a
> Hindu!!!) and I've already finished one. I chose the texts about bread
> and vine in St. John to embroider an intertwined vine and wheatsheaf.
> That was the easy bit. For the other three panels, I've got to do
> figures and faces: Sermon on the Mount for Matthew, calming the storm
> for Mark and the Good Shepherd for Luke. In most cases, I'm hoping to
> get away with cutting out figures on different cloths and laying them
> as appliques. But I've got to embroider the face in at least two
> cases, and I have no idea how to go about it. I've never done this
> before, and my instinctive idea is to follow the traced outline. But
> just before putting needle to cloth, I decided to ask for expert
> opinion on this forum.
>
> Regards,
> Shanti.
If I'm accurately understanding your assessment, you want to outline a
face only.
That's easy enough to do: either tiny chain or tiny stem stitch will
give you a smooth edge.
If you want to fill in the face and then add a couple of features
(eye/s, nose, mouth as straight stitches) you can either use long/short
technique (needlepainting without shading) or Rumanian couching. If the
face is very tiny, you can simply satin stitch it, and then add details.
Dianne
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Posted by Shanti on June 7, 2009, 3:44 am
wrote:
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> (eye/s, nose, mouth as straight stitches) you can either use long/short
> technique (needlepainting without shading) or Rumanian couching. =A0If th=
e
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> face is very tiny, you can simply satin stitch it, and then add details.
> Dianne
Thank you, Dianne. I will probably try all of these. It would help, of
course, if the faces looked like people and not like caricatures. But
probably my skill levels need to be higher to accomplish that.
Regards,
Shanti.
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Posted by Dianne Lewandowski on June 7, 2009, 9:01 am
Shanti wrote:
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> Thank you, Dianne. I will probably try all of these. It would help, of
> course, if the faces looked like people and not like caricatures. But
> probably my skill levels need to be higher to accomplish that.
>
> Regards,
> Shanti.
Shanti . . . straight lines to designate nose, mouth, and eye (with a
dot for the eyeball) doesn't necessarily mean a caricature. Some really
lovely art is done with little else for features. It's positioning them
correctly (proportionately) that is the trick.
Dianne
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Posted by anne on June 7, 2009, 10:00 am
shantimb@gmail.com says...
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> But I've got to embroider the face in at least two
> cases, and I have no idea how to go about it. I've never done this
> before, and my instinctive idea is to follow the traced outline.
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Of course Dianne's advice is wonderful but I can't resist adding my $0.02 <g>
If the cloth you're using already has prints of the faces, you could ignore the
outline. Instead see if you can make the facial features stand out with a few
stitches.
Whatever you decide, use one strand of floss for a fine line.
--
another anne, add ingers to reply
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>
> I'm doing a fairly major project as part of an even bigger project at
> a local church in Oxford. The plan is to depict each book of the Bible
> in an A5-sized piece of felt. I've taken on the four Gospels (I'm a
> Hindu!!!) and I've already finished one. I chose the texts about bread
> and vine in St. John to embroider an intertwined vine and wheatsheaf.
> That was the easy bit. For the other three panels, I've got to do
> figures and faces: Sermon on the Mount for Matthew, calming the storm
> for Mark and the Good Shepherd for Luke. In most cases, I'm hoping to
> get away with cutting out figures on different cloths and laying them
> as appliques. But I've got to embroider the face in at least two
> cases, and I have no idea how to go about it. I've never done this
> before, and my instinctive idea is to follow the traced outline. But
> just before putting needle to cloth, I decided to ask for expert
> opinion on this forum.
>
> Regards,
> Shanti.