Tag: Film
Some Interesting Stitches
I keep going on about Floral Feather Stitch as one of my favourites. I’ve done a video of it and uploaded it to my MakerTube “Interesting Stitches” channel, in hopes of seeing more people taking it up. It has been auto-captioned, and I’ve not worked out how to correct infelicities yet. But at least you may find it helpful.
Another stitch I’ve recorded, I’ve called Super Closed Feather Stitch. It doesn’t quite cross over, but on Stella’s Birds I found it made quite an interesting line, and since textures are very much part of the fun of embroidery, I thought it was worth sharing.
Finally, although it’s hardly new, I thought some of you might like to see again the recording of Holly Braid Stitch in its new home on MakerTube. This is one of the stitches from one of Jacqui Carey’s books about Elizabethan stitchery, and although it’s beautifully diagrammed in the book, the workflow didn’t quite work for me as diagrammed. Looking at this video helps me to rediscover it when I decide to use the stitch again. In particular, I usually work line stitches towards myself, and this one I can only work successfully in the other direction!
Something different this week
Late last year, a local film-maker friend who had bought a copy of “Dreams of Amarna” said that it had revealed a whole new world to him, and he’d like to make a film about me and my work. To begin with it was going to be a standard documentary, with him doing the filming and me just being the subject, but then he realised just how difficult it would be to film the embroidery and painting that he wanted to under the constraints of our respective diaries. So apart from a couple of bits at the beginning and end, I became camerawoman as well as subject.
The film became a First in the annals of Swan Moviemakers, in that the direction happened entirely by email. Tony would ask questions, ask for footage of <something>, I would attempt to oblige, get it to him via some means or other, and we’d go around again. I found myself thinking quite hard about the whys and wherefores of what I do and how, in a more abstract way to the way I do it here on the blog, so I’m not sure how clearly I’ve expressed myself, or how much sense I make for anyone not involved with the art and craft of embroidery.
In the end, the film won two awards at Swan, and very definitely introduced the other members of the club to the idea that embroidery can be an art form and not “merely embellishment”. So that’s definitely a win.
It’s less than fifteen minutes long. I hope you’ll enjoy it too!