Final Developments - Refining Ideas

After previously experimenting with pattern and layering techniques and materials to create textures and disortion of imagery and prints, I found myslef going round in cirlces and not really moving forward in terms od development.
I became bored of the same print and I found that layering samples didn't really produce the outcome that I had hoped for. So I decided to play with scale and size of prints, to do this I used the Ethos machine as I find the effects of the stitches relevent to my practice.

Prints onto Cotton Gauze, with Ethos over to distort imagery. This was too much of a certain pattern.

 After discovering that scale wasn't the answer to my problems in terms of developing ideas, I analysed older samples and drawings to see what new ideas I could stitch from drawings.
I took the disaster that I previously had with the Thermogaze and decided to develop on that. As there were holes in parts of the fabric I decided to produce Ethos samples with a tight satin stitch to allow me to cut back into samples to expose underneath layers.

Ethos

Reverse Applique over foil prints to reveal Ethos designs.

I found that the line qualities within these layered samples were very interesting as they broke up the pattern and displayed a variety of textures.
This then led me back to the Ethos machine where I created further designs that could be stitched out in the same way only this time I would experiment with the machine and breaking of stitches. For this I would use the Brother machine during the stitch out and skip parts of the design.

Ethos - skipping the design to distort imagery. Skipping the design left an excess of threads which distracted from the foil prints to make more patterns.

After producing a few of the similar prints I decided to work back into my samples to create even more depth using a fine black cotton thread - this came from previous samples where I had used a variegated thread and it broke up the stitches and patterns.

Layering samples after breaking threads.