More shading

I've been carrying on with the shading practice by experimenting with different size patterns.

There are 8 levels in each of these strips. 3 strands, 2 strands, 1 strand, machine thread, shading between each of them and pattern break up at the end.The shading works for all of them though obviously the larger, more open patterns never get quite as dark. Also I found the larger patterns easier to break up, which I don't think was just because I had more practice, when there are more stitches there is more flexibility about which to remove.


Interesting though this experiment was I decided that I need more practice at the lighter end of the spectrum and with irregular shading rather than strips. Therefore, I sewed a random wiggly line in red to shade around.

Using three thicknesses of thread and the same stitch pattern throughout, the rules were that starting at the centre bottom the darkest shade should be on the right hand side of the red outline and follow it round, and the pattern should break up to nothing inside two separate blobs. We'll see how it goes.