MODULE 2 - CHAPTER 2

We have just come home from a trip to Palm Springs to have a break from the cold winter.  This time I organized my work so I would have some hand stitching to do, so that I was not so far behind in my Distant Stitch studies as I was last year.  Here are a couple of pictures to show me hard at work.  The fact that my eyes are closed in one of the pictures is not because I was sleeping on the job, but that I blinked as the wrong moment! Honest!  Anyway, I really enjoyed my peaceful stitching of the blackwork samples, sitting in the sun, with the occasional break for a swim in the pool! 

MODULE 2 - CHAPTER 2 - Part 2

BLACKWORK TONAL COLUMNS

1. Using pattern development to create a darker tone

2. Using spacing to control the tone

3. Using thickness of thread to create a darker tone

MODULE 2 - CHAPTER 2

A - TONAL COLUMN IN STITCHERY

1. tonal column using different weights of black and white thread and different sizes of cross stitch

B - TONAL EFFECTS USING THE TECHNIQUE OF BLACKWORK

The following samples are using graph paper and a black pen to draw simple units of pattern made of straight lines. The pattern has had lines subtracted to make the pattern more sparse and lighter

2a                                        2b

3a                                   3b

4 This pattern has been added to to make it darker

BLACKWORK TONAL COLUMNS

5a Pattern development has been used to create a darker going to lighter tone using the pattern from 2a above.