Embroidery week 2.

In the second week of embroidery , I found myself enjoying it a lot more than the previous one, the reason being we learnt lots more machines and techniques, I found myself starting to go off in the direction that I was hoping to lead in the first place, I could really create some vibrant and eye catching samples using these skills to show off my personal idea of passamenterie.
The Phaff machine, embellisher and a number of different feet for the industrial machines were all shown to us as a large group,  I felt I used these skills to a much greater extent, and applied them were ever I felt was necessary, Out of this bunch, the Phaff machine and embellisher were my top two, the last fifth sample was my design, the swirl effect was inspired by the decoration and paint work on both the fair ground rides and costumes from both Blackpool and Mosi.
I found the seven needle embellisher an incredible machine to use as the second picture below will show, creating something no other machine can, not one single thread was used, pulling up fibres from a range of tonal purple yarns, the machine was plucking up exactly were I was aiming for, creating a very textures fluffy fairground look.
The first sample was created on a ruffling foot on a normal industrial machine, I used a vibrant red lace and layered it up so that it build a chunky ruffle eye catching bangle.
The third sample was sewn with electric blue and turquoise thread using a double needle, sewn onto a simple light flimsy cotton banding, thick and again chunky, the perfect design for a structure band.
The fourth picture was a variety of  different techniques, the main strip was a pleated red cotton, on top of a shining pink organza, with ribbon cord hair pining sewn down to create a feminine ladies cuff, to finish this piece off I used red pom pom cording to give the sample a fun feel.