After a few weeks of meticulous stitching I decided to give my Haworth Stitch Group a slightly different challenge; to create a picture sewn in straight lines.
I was inspired by a project from HoopLa magazine which showed a London cityscape, drawn with long single stitches and punctuated with small spots of coloured fabric. Some of the group chose favourite cities and some chose this charming illustration of Dutch houses. The pictures are postcard size and the pieces of fabric are teeny-tiny. The 'drawing' was worked in thick top-stitch or button thread using elongated back-stitch.
I quiet like the discipline of straight black lines and can see other projects that might include this technique.
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