Embroidery week 1.

The first technique I was taught was one that I found a very delicate, one that I had to take particular good care with and make sure I did it in the correct way, a technique created by a small hand machine called the Princess Pleater, the 12 needle embroidery machine was one of the most exiting embroidery machines that I have learnt to this date.
I along with two friends from my class explored the city of Manchester on the hunt to find a verity of different kinds of materials, to see what worked best and what didn't work quiet as well, this way we were able to share and collaborate our ideas, this worked in a great advantage in this case because we were able to see the best results, also a very good way of time management and making sure we were doing the most relevant things to gain the most knowledge, creating long pieces of pleated defined materials that were the perfect starting point for a sample, for my own personal inspiration and route I was hoping to take, they would made perfect cuffs or neck pieces.
The second technique I got taught this week was on the 121 cornelly machine, this had to be my favorite out of all the cornelly machines, very easy to set up, to control and to my personal taste the 121 has much prettier and a better looking professional final result. The scrunching and pulling together look would be my idea of the perfect way to achieve a passementorie edging sample.
The two images below are two of my samples that were a part of my final outcome, the first was the most successful sample off the Princess pleater, created on a shimmering silk slub with a ribbon and cotton piping embroidered over the top, the most textured and unique embroidery sample that I created, this is my favourite. The one below was threaded carefully through the 121 cornelly machine the turquoise silk ribbon was then sewn into with pin drop coloured lines to give the piece definition and a finishing touch.

 

Over all this week I didn't achieve as much as I would have liked too, I felt that even though I enjoyed both the new machines that I learnt, I wasn't very focused and didn't get a great amount of work done, a few samples isn't the best start, by the end of rotation of embroidery I hope to have a good amount of work to see me through the project.