Following on from Tuesday's advice, I have decided to have a break from the Cornely 121 this week, and instead moved onto the Irish machine. I haven't particularly used the machine in the past because of it's link to free machine embroidery. To me, free machine comes across as messy and not very interesting, however the Irish has the ability to use satin stitch, therefore making samples much neater. I picked up the technique quickly, although I feel I didn't produce enough work for the time that I was on the machine...
Taking visual note of the markings found on our school of art beam structures, I manipulated tailor-tacking into my Irish sample, creating a tile like piece of work. I used an orange thread for the backing lines, trying to incorporate the colour into my palette, without it becoming too garish. Overall I like the two samples that I have produced for the technical side and being able to learn how to use the machine quickly, but I'm not so keen on the colours that I used. I am wanting to embellish into them with french knots to finish the pieces. Unfortunately I was unable to create any others because of workshop inductions and other arrangements. I am going to use my last week of this unit to continue to sample with this machine...
