Thursday, 30 January 2014

Taking a Stitch for a Walk

Whereas Picasso, Matisse, even Mondrian and Kandinsky concentrated on abstracting from perceived reality, Klee began with a point, extended it into a line and famously took it for a walk wherever it wished to go.

 A day sent working with Yvonne Flavell was rather like the title of this post suggests. We worked with shading of thread in varying degrees from the bobbin. Liberating and a way I shall explore further in translation of the drawn mark to fabric.














Further exploration since Saturday:



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7 comments:

  1. Ro BruhnThu Jan 30, 08:39:00 pm GMT

    Lovely stitching Clare. The results are amazing.

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  2. AnnaThu Jan 30, 09:33:00 pm GMT

    What fun stitching!

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  3. layersFri Jan 31, 05:11:00 am GMT

    Boy, you really did take your stitchings for a walk... a wonderful walk.

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  4. PatFri Jan 31, 10:21:00 am GMT

    If I altered the tension on my machine it would stich like this all the time:-). Seriously this looks like a fascinating excercise and the reults are great. I particularly like the red (3rd from the end) I think it is that contast staight black line

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  5. JulieFri Jan 31, 10:31:00 pm GMT

    That's a phenomenal amount of work. You must have learnt a lot from it all.

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  6. Deb GMon Feb 03, 01:22:00 am GMT

    Oh how fun this all is!

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  7. MaggiThu Feb 06, 12:22:00 pm GMT

    What a wonderful selection of stitches and textures. It looks like you got a lot out of this class, with plenty more mileage to come.

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