Sooooo maybe this piece was inspired by a very specific “them”, but so what? I needed to practice my rusty embroidery skills and this was as good a sentiment to immortalize in silk as any!
My Photoshop skills are weak so I sketched out the pattern by hand. No specific font, I just stretched out and cleaned up my own block printing. Dredged up all of those drafting skills from my first run at university!
I was feeling an 80s vibe when I was auditioning thread against my favourite polka dots. I’ve tucked the green away for some future project.
Played around with the colours and patterns before I committed anything to cloth.
My satin stitch is slowly recovering but doing it in black hides a lot of sins, adding a single strand outline around each letter hides the rest of them.
I filled in the color with I guess a long and short stitch? Maybe? Honestly, there wasn’t a lot of structure to it, I just kept filling in stitches until I had the coverage that I wanted. I was using 2 strands so it’s a little lumpier in closeup but it works. The really high gloss thread like this is a bit of a pain to work with but worth it for the shine.
I’m happy with how it turned out though and I can honestly say that I still feel that way today so it hangs proudly on my wall now.
Jody Linn 