Individual tutorial

In my individual tutorial today, I took the opportunity to share my plans for my 4 final designs to one of my tutors. She said that although everything I was doing was good, that I could probably do it all with my eyes closed. She wants me to take what I know and experiment with it to further my knowledge and learn new ways of working that I hadn't thought of.

She suggested that my work is missing the fun and playful element that shows I have experimented a little, even if things do go wrong. To do this, I now must think about photocopying my sketchbook drawings to play with composition and give me ideas for samples. I can take pictures of the prints that I have completed, but I now must take the opportunity to use my stitching skills to work bAck into them and develop them further.

Focus on hand and machine stitching, creating textures, layering and lots of colour!!

I have to admit that unlike usual, I don't feel that worried coming out of the tutorial. Normally I stress about not k owing where to begin, but I am seeming now just to take it in my stride, and see where these new ideas take me.