In my stumpwork projects I often use long and short, or at least a reasonable approximation, for shading and filling petals and leaves and such. So I thought I'd try doing counted long and short to get a real feel for the stitch. I also wanted to experiment with colours and shading so I made a rainbow band of sorts. I had a harder time than I expected getting four shades of the same sort of colour, I guess that means I need to add to my stash:-) But it was very interesting to see how the shades worked together or in some cases didn't - although I guess it would depend on the look you were going for. The small red sample is done with 2 strands of overdyed silk. I love this colour and I love the way the shading works. It would be quite different with satin stitch covering the same area so I can see the use for this stitch with overdyed threads as well.Below is a stumpwork version of the watercolour 'portrait' of Jane Austen done by her sister Cassandra. which I have stitched using long and short.
5 comments:
How beautiful !! this is what I expect from an embroiderer :))
I will never become so good, my patient is not that great.
What lovely work!
Fantastic work Margaret and so much stitching in the bottom one but it was worth it.
Hello, your stitching is verry beautiful. I like iit!
What an interesting thing to do with the counted l&s stitch.
It sounds like a good thing to do at the beginning of a project to see how the colours would all work together.
Great shading on the lady, btw
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