More Hands
Here are a selection of the foxgloves stitched on the Left Front. The game again is to try to figure out how many people stitched these four flowers. Answers in a few days. I am happy to report that this job isn’t so easy. Something we had worried about a lot at the beginning. We have been careful to critique the reverse chain of the stitchers who come to work on the project as it is the single most important factor in determining the guage of stitches for the detached buttonhole that is built upon it. I think that this has been pretty successful. Not to say that there still aren’t areas where some linen shows through or the stitching is very dense, but the range is acceptable across the jacket pieces.
Tricia
January 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am
3 hands…The center photo and the one on the bottom right are the same, I think.
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
These are three distinct places on the jacket; the center photo isn’t the bottom right of the pair. You can tell both because the center photo shows a flower near the seam of the piece and because the tension on the two pieces is the most different of all of the flowers.
These flowers were done much earlier — sometime in 2007, I know that much.
I think that these might have been done by a number of people; the tension of the red on the right of the pair is looser than that of other places, including the white above. The left of the pair and the top one are definitely denser. I’d guess 4 or 5 people worked these.
Robbin
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
These flowers are ones that someone might have been able to stitch a complete foxglove. I would guess 2 or 3 people – One person for the middle one and the right one on the bottom and a second (and third) person for the top one and the left one on the bottom.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I want to say 4 different hands on these. If one person did stitch two I’d say those were #1 and the left one in pic #3. Cool to see these up close, thanks Tricia.