
As I work on this piece I'm cringing to think of my work being critiqued by a stitcher of that caliber. It may be why it took me so long to contact Nicola about my idea, although she's been nothing but encouraging and supportive. She's stressed several times that this is my piece and I should use my creativity.
I emailed Nicola on Friday eve to inquire about the shape & size of the evening purse. I said I might want to stitch some very fine lines in the background in a fine silver Guterman machine thread to imitate vines. Not very many - just enough to hint at shrubbery or trees.
To get a life-sized drawing of the purse to work with I dropped the photo into iPhoto. In iPhoto, I enlarged it until the height measurement, when measured with a ruler laid on my laptop screen, equaled the dimension Nicola gave me: 15cm. Then I checked the width measurement to be sure the ratio had been maintained. It always is, but I like to be certain.
Next, I opened my laptop as far as possible and using the screen as a light box I traced the purse outline onto tracing paper. At this enlargement, the purse was larger than my laptop screen, so I traced, scrolled, and finished tracing. I checked measurements again and all was as before.
Now to come up with a background design. It was a nice enough Saturday afternoon so I threw my sketch pad in my bike basket and pedaled to my favorite quiet destination. I came up with this sketch.
This sounds wonderful! So looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
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ReplyDeleteGreat work by Kimberly Servell... You blog is awesome on embroidery digitizing and art work. Thank you.
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