“Black, white and a colour” embroidery course, exercise #3. To get our creative juices flowing, we painted on newsprint with Indian ink, painted on fabric to recapture the feeling of newsprint, and then finally used paper in our embroidery.

The design:

The painted fabric:

Putting it all together:

And just like for the past two exercises, I wouldn’t mind making another variation of this design but with different stitches and materials, and I have several more designs that I would also like to stitch, and actually I wouldn’t mind doing the whole exercise all over again.

The teacher’s design exercises really suits me perfectly. There’s just enough guidance and constraints to push me in directions I’d never have gone before, and still enough freedom to make the design my own. I get more ideas than I know what to do with, and I’m loving the outcomes. And the teacher’s feedback and our group discussions give rise to even more ideas.