The stitch squares in black and white

These are my machine stitched squares, sketch book and a drawing of my journey travelling on  trains.

These squares have been stitched using the embroidery, tailor tack and pintuck feet. Loved working on these squares using the sewing machine. The problem is I have over worked some of my pieces it's a case of less is more !!

Two of these pieces are too fussy..... 
I have decided to cut up a couple of my overworked squares and add them to my hand sewn squares.

Black and white picture squares

For this task we were asked to draw in black and white on paper squares and had only five minutes to complete each square. For the mark making we were given a sentence eg: a line walking across the paper. These are the photographs of my squares.  

I quite enjoyed this task but would do things differently if I did the task again. As I had to interpret them into fabric...... would have more clean cut linear marks.

Colour Task

Really enjoyed the colour task ..... making the colour wheel which I have done before in paint and fabric. Interesting mixing the paints and how many colours you can achieve with only the six paints.

What I did learn with this task was to be more generous when adding colours to make tones and shades and the white and black to form greys !

  

The next task was to mix colours to words eg: Fox's back which I mixed as a brownie tan colour. The other colours are pebble dash, blue bells, mushy peas, peacock blue, baggers back, elastoplast pink, germolene and corset. The colours I mixed are in the picture above and as you can see my peacock blue is not the proper colour it should be.

This is my colour chart I mixed to match my to images in my sketch book see below.

   

The colour I could not mix was emerald green...... but had a good try with the other colours and they seem to blend in.

Finding it hard at moment, my ideas are not forthcoming ..... all the changes around me as well 

trying to get my head round Uni life, travelling and boosting my own confidence.......