Sweatshop Girl

In truth, I do feel a bit like one (and now have even greater sympathy for the world's millions of sweatshop workers as a result).

You know that feeling? When you desperately want someone to be wrong about something. But really, you know they're right.

Damnation.

Below has taken about eight hours to do (two hours unpicking alone!) and was utterly horrible to do. But, yes, I admit, it does look great, and, against my others, has so much more impact.

Here you can see that the first needs to be worked into much more.

But it is going to take me a really long time, so I need to make the decision whether to carry on with developing these, and leave out some other elements, eg the floor model or the painting. As I do think these are so effective in their own right, I think it's the path I need to take. Although I do still really want to try and do the cardboard painting as well. But, worst case scenario, I'll still have two weeks when I finish these. So that should be ok.

I do really like the effect above - where there's a contrast of paper and see-through stitch. However, I know I need to stitch into them more, whatever I do, so I'll have another think about that in eight days time.

See you then...