As you can see I have gone with my idea from yesturday and created a stitched picture along this seam…The sand, waves and water are couched threads and straight stitches done with rough textured, varigated threads, I did a google image search for fishing trawler to get the basic shape for the boat and stitched it with straight stitches and the Sun is a circle of Barred Chain Stitch.
I Can’t remember why I originally planned this project to have embroidered seams but no embellishments but thinking about it I have realized that by embellishments I meant baskets, flower clusters, ribbon fans, lace butterflies, embellishments that are pretty but have not particular meaning and I may have felt that they would overwhelm the images that I wanted to be the focus…In the 12 years since then I have done a lot of themed and biograhical crazy pieces which has expanded the meaning of ’embellishments’ for me and whilst I still feel that embellishments that are just pretty would overwhelm and distract from the images I am thinking that embellishments that are relevant to family history/stories/memories would compliment the images, add a lot of interest and actually enhance the finished project…I discussed the pros and cons with my sister and decided that for now I would include ‘some’ embroidered embellishments as I have done in this seam where the fishing Trawler will remind my mum and family of the 12 months that my dad spent working on the trawlers and that he remained friends with the fishermen who would often drop by with a bucket of fresh seafood, we were poor but as we sat under the mango tree eating prawns, crabs and my favourite morten bay bugs we would wonder what the rich people were eating, amused that it couldn’t be better than what we were dining on.
I have a feeling that with the decision to do this seam I may have opened the floodgates because my mind is already thinking of a few charms and how could I fit them into a seam treatment…
Below is the finished 12th block
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