For some time, I have been wanting to do a piece of embroidery with a void, or negative space as some call it. We were away and my work on the denim jacket had come to an end so I had a go using a hand print as the negative space.
I was very limited in the threads that I had with me and loath to buy any more as I have found in the past that I always buy what I already have, I made use of what I had and went for a variegated blue look.
It was really an experiment and has evolved as I did it.
I used lazy daisy, straight stitch, crosses and French knots and started m
by working just under and inch all the way round the hand print. I started at the bottom with a variegated thread, changing for the middle third to a mid blue and then finally a light blue for the top third. When I had done this it looked a little odd so I evened out the shape but it looked more like a mitten with a hand inside it!
Once I was home I tried it in a hoop and decided that it really needed to have a circle of stitches around it and went for one smaller than the final hoop I mounted it in.
The jury is still out about this - maybe I've got it out of my system and will not repeat it but time will tell.
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