Back in March I treated myself to a workshop with Emily from Salt Stitches. Her work is truly unique and I was fascinated to learn about her process. It’s fairly simple - she photographs ‘textures’ prints them onto fabric and then stitches over them. But the beauty is in how you select the colours, the placing of the colours and the direction of the stitches.
The first three photos show the evolution through the 5 hours of the workshop.

The final photo shows a piece I stitched from scratch using a DIY kit I bought as a birthday treat. In this piece I more carefully picked a colour palette and thought as much about the unstitched areas as the stitched ones.