stitching emotions - 50 women stitchers
as part of an exhibition responding to the work of Mary Linwood, Ruth Singer launched several collaborative projects including Stitching Emotions - this has come at a time when i needed a short project to work on and th theme also appealed to me - so along with a few other Maker Members i have been developing my response in the end i produced a series of three pieces - 50 Women Stitchers I, II, and III i decided to ask other local women who stitch about their reasons for and feelings about stitch using a short online survey - i used local social networks to get a variety of responses as i felt that my own textile-related network would be a rather biased - a multiple choice questionnaire was chosen for ease of analysis (see below) then i looked at different ways of representing the data in stitched textile - the first was a rather simplistic approach with colour blocks and different colour threads to represent the responses - in the next i chose different stitches...
