I already knew I wanted to make a mobile phone case (the object), with the theme of Paisley (the decorative scheme), using a variety of chain stitches and hand embroidery (the media used to make the decorative scheme). Work out your basic constraints for the design - how it will be used I also had design constraints because I chose to join in with the group theme of paisley and chain stitches. And there are constraints arising from performance and intended use.
PAISLEY DRAWING INKSCAPE SERIES
STAGE 1 - Finding InspirationIt doesn't matter whether you find inspiration from primary sources, like nature or observation, or your own imagination, or secondary sources like someone else's work (though you should always credit it!) - but a key part of ending up with a well resolved pattern or series of shapes that please the eye and performs well in the context of how the final object will be used. In chain stitches and using paisley pattern - so I'm sort of following the group, but going off piste a bit.Īnyway, so, I decided to design it properly and not wing it, and to use the Scan N Cut wherever possible - which is at the design stage and also initial preparation of materials stage. Me, I'm going to be small scale again and make a mobile phone sleeve case. This month they did a chain stitch handkerchief pouch and I just did sample stitching (mostly at home), and next month they are going to do a paisley design on a cotton bag for life shopping bag. In February they did a lovely triangular pouch using various chain stitches from the Melinda Cross DMC book of embroidery, but I wasn't there because the lady came from wheelchair services to assess me and triple hurrah approve me for an electric power wheelchair (that tilts in space so I can rest and therefore go further than a few yards at a time, and more importantly NOT be sitting on lying on the floor when normal healthy people are sitting on chairs). In January we did Seed Stitch, and everyone else did a bag but I did a 2" square piece that is eventually going to be turned into a lavender bag. My fine motor skills are somewhat depleted these days!).Īnyway. Well, I say join in, I sit or lie on the floor and mostly listen to what everyone else is doing and say oops and ouch a lot (dropping the needle and then stabbing myself with it respectively. Double hurrah! Which as my mobility scooter currently lives in their garage, means dad can come and pick me up in a car, take me to his garage and then I can tootle over the road and join in. And, because the library is an old single storey Carnegie library (thankyou Mr Andrew Carnegie for providing the UK with so many libraries) it has both an access ramp and a push button to operate the doors and is level access downstairs hurrah! Best of all it's literally on the other side of the road to my parent's house.
I was rather excited to find there is an embroidery group once a month at the local library. Why am I doing this hand embroidered mobile phone sleeve? So I thought it may be interesting to blog about the design decisions I have to make starting with a blank sheet of paper right through to the final finished item. I'm just about to embark on a proper project from scratch to make myself a hand embroidered mobile phone sleeve.
PAISLEY DRAWING INKSCAPE HOW TO
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