Well that didn’t work out. I used some wool fabric cut to the shape of a large stick chair and began stitching it on to a piece of linen. UNFORTUNATELY, the scale was all wrong, the top fabric was too fine the fabric used to create the chair shape was too dense. The whole thing was clumsy and I recently found a note in a sketchbook which read “it must be elegant”. That is not so much a fashion sort of a statement but rather that the idea needs to be refined to its simplest so that when viewing the final result the process does not get in the way. The first sight of the work should not elicit ‘gosh how did she do that?’. Well not my work anyway.
On the subject of neatness; well I decided to neaten and turn in edges but on reflection I do not feel that it was necessary. It was a good learning exercise, not a waste of time. I have now taken the same idea but simplified it and am very pleased with it so far. I will illustrate the false start and the new beginning.
It is a while later and I realise I cannot show you the false start because I destroyed it, well I unpicked it. So I bet you’re all really really disappointed, but into each life a little rain must fall (H.W. Longfellow, sort of)
