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| Attempt at subtle shading |
I am always looking to improve my embroidery techniques and inspired by Trish Burr's wonderful book
Colour confidence in embroidery (find a book review I wrote about it
here) I decided to try and improve my 'subtle shading' technique.
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| crazy fur stitching in action a couple of years ago. this piece was finished but can't find a photo of the finished jackalope right now! |
Usually, especially when stitching animal furs, I use what I call my
crazy fur stitch. Effective but not exactly subtle!
Colour confidence in embroidery has many lovely, if not a little traditional, projects (birds, flowers, fruits) but no furry animals. And I love stitching furry animals! So I drew a bunny myself and I'm now trying my shading techniques on it. Which sounds cruel but I can assure you no bunnies are hurt during the process. ;) I quickly ended up doing some 'crazy fur stitching' again. So I think I'll do some unpicking and try to follow Trish's suggestions a bit more. :)
