Experiments, Part 3

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Last month, I did my first piece from the back, meaning that what you're seeing as the finished piece is what would normally be on the back of the piece. I focused on straight lines for that piece, and connected the lines rather than completely tying off a thread before moving to the next line. It was a good first experiment on making the back the front.

I was thinking about this again over the weekend, and decided to do a similar piece for today, but focus on curved lines, completing each line as it's own, and introducing French knots and the whipped back stitch to the group. Some things I learned from today's experiment:
  • The whipped back stitch is unnecessary for this type of piece. The whipped stitch is wrapped around the thread so it looks exactly like a regular back stitch from the back. 
  • The stitch patterns for each stitch are so different when viewing them from the back. A back stitch looks more like a split stitch from the back and a stem stitch looks like a back stitch. It's all about where your needle goes when stitching. 
  • French knots in a line look more like seed stitches. If I had done a group of French knots, the back and the front would be pretty similar in grouping. 
  • I need to vary up the amount of time I spend on pieces, especially during the week. I haven't done a ton of pieces that take less than hour, and I'd like to do more of those. It doesn't always have to take half a day to make something exciting.
  • This is super fun. 
Big picture, I want to do at least two more pieces from the back for this project. One will be something done like these two experiments; something drawn normally but stitched in reverse. The second will be a piece designed based on the way stitches look from the back instead of how they look from the back. 

Front (normally the back)


Back (normally the front)



Details
Stitches: back, whipped back, stem, split, chain stitches, French knots (in that order from upper right corner to lower left corner in the first photo)
Thread palette: DMC 4507 (6 strands)

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