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| 41 |
I started to hand stitch fish shapes using variegated ribbon yarn, cream chord and French knots.
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| 42 |
Another variation using quilling.
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| 43 |
A slightly different shape, quilling, dyed chords and French knots.
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| 44 |
A rocky background! I glued kyvek to the back of painted polyester and then applied a heat gun. I ran a brown paintstik over the ridges. Not too bad!
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| 45 |
Deciding how to put the fish and rocks together has proved rather tricky. In 45 the fish and surrounding area were backed onto pelmet vilene to keep it all flat. I accidentally burnt through the fabric where the backing was vilene but the other areas rippled nicely. This won't work on a larger scale though.
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| 46 |
Another experiment with the tyvek/polyester combination. The hexagon shape was discarded during PAP3! The whole piece crinkled beautifully.
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| 47 |
I cut the fish in 43 away from the background and appliquéd it to 47. | also experimented with a different 'tail'. Twisting the ribbon yarn gave the 'tail' a textural quality and I think this needs more development. However both pieces of appliqué are lost on such a colourful background.
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| 48 |
The fish looks much better on a lighter background ...
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| 49 |
... so does the tail!
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| 50 |
These 'fish' definitely look like footprints. They are on a smooth background with spaces between the quilling stitches. I made the mistake of not using a stabiliser beneath the polyester, so there are wrinkles that I could have avoided.
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| 51 |
I glued small pieces of tyvek on the back of the polyester and heated the fabric to see what would happen. I skimmed the ridges with a brown paintstik. There are far too many wrinkles, the fish will need to be stitched separately and appliquéd in place.
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| 52 |
I removed all the fish from their backings. I like the pair of fish at the top the best, but will add chords and French knots to them.
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| 53 |
This sketch was done some time ago. I'm now thinking of stitching pairs of fish/feet rather than a frenzy of fish.
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| 54 |
This sketch shows only 3 pairs of fish/feet at the moment. The four pieces of seaweed will be multi-layered and some strands will contain the writing - accès permit sur l'enrochement. Work in progress!
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| 55 |
A simplified and better design.
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| 56 |
Some ideas to add to the 'seaweed'. The background writing is 'accès permis sur l'enrochement'. I made a stencil using a poly pocket for the green printing.
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Another stencil - my first experiments.
