Ethos and Multihead

In the tutorial of Ethos, at first I was struggling to transfer my drawings. I started with the subject matter, for I used buildings in the beginning.

 In the program; it has straight stitch, fill stitch and satin stitch.  However,  I overcame my difficultly by treating Ethos as a continual line drawing and use block colours in most of my drawing.  I mainly use line drawing and tone. The machinery is limiting as it has 3 stitches. The satin stich cannot express curves neatly.

As a beginner I started with designing my design with 3 different needles, because each needle represents a colour of my choice for the same colour thread are connected.

Also my tutor reminded me to combine hand stitch techniques that I have learnt in the past.  For I have realized myself that my strong point is to use colours to collage.

I find it useful to not to be precious about my work meaning that I take apart the work that I have done and put them back together. Sometimes  I get too comfortable with using machine stitch only and not doing my best.

After looking at Edward Hopper's work, I had an idea to stop following the city landscape but to make my own. I am finding the meaning of urban influence that is suitable for myself.

Figure 1: Ethos design.

I like the separate colours that the machine picks apart for us. This saves time by doing one colour at once and lets me see the stages of the program. I like to keep the designs simple and limited to three colours.

Figure 2: Ethos Design

Again, I have found working with buildings less enjoyable. The details turn out as blocks of colour. The machine is not able to express the detail I have taken within my drawings.

 

Figure 3: Multi-needle head machine stitch.

I find it more suitable to do figurative designs than to do buildings. This is a finish sample of using three needles.  I am confident to use this to speed up some aspects of the work, but for detailed work, I would prefer to use a Bernina machine to add elements of handcraft into the digital work.  I want to spend more time with the program to develop new techniques and work more with the other stitches.