Certificate, Module 5, Chapter 6: Tucks, Pleats and Gathers. Day 21

The hessian sample from yesterday worked beautifully.  There was enough dressing in the hessian that, when dampened and pressed into ridges, it set in that shape when dry.

It seemed to me that it was just calling out for  random smocking stitches to scrawl their way across the ridges.

5.6.11

I have tried to avoid using colour for this module, as suggested in the student notes, but in this case I couldn't resist this thread, (a gift from a friend) of hand dyed cotton with the merest blush of faint colour, shading from pink through cream to green.  With the warmer coloured thread appearing to advance and the cooler green appearing to recede it seems to add another dimension to this simple piece.  I like this one very much.