Having been practising my embroidery for the last couple of months I embarked upon this piece which was stitched from scratch; that is without having drawn my design onto the fabric first. As a result it’s a little less accurate or perhaps stylised if you’d prefer to think of it that way.
Their’s an air of authenticity to this work which reminds my of old embroideries and tapestries that I’ve seen and I hope to proceed in this direction with my embroidery in future. I want to use stitch as the tool for drawing not just for tracing and filling in a design that I’ve already drafted.