Candie Printz Craft Projects

Embroidery piece- in progress. I will post more reflections on this once it is completed. There is also a photo of a found object craft piece that I did just for fun.

I have chosen to do two craft pieces. The first is the main one I am striving to complete- an embroidery piece. I am doing an abstract piece using french knots, so far. I TOTALLY underestimated how long something like this would take. I have a small circle done so far and it has taken me over 8 hours, several fingertip jabs, and pains in my hands from the repetitive movements that I had not anticipated! This is a lot harder than it looks! I will continue to post updates with photos as I move forward with this. I am trying to fade the thread colors from dark to light. It has no deep meaning or message, but serves as an experiment in technique for me.

What surprised me is the difficulty of embroidery. I will try to include more stitches to change up the texture of this piece, but the french knot is very time consuming.

What impressed me is how relaxing something like this can be (when I'm not stabbing myself with the needle, of course!).

My take away from this is that this is something that is underrepresented in public schools today. I plan on doing more embroidery pieces with all of my classes next year. I think there will be students that will appreciate it.