After creating some of the stitching to try out as motifs, I wanted to try and edit them to create patterns out of them, to see whether I could make a bigger range of stitched motifs to use.
I played around with brightness and contrast first and then saturated the image more to get more of an idea of the colour of the stitching. I tried a gradient map on it too which turned it red and inverted, and finally tried a posterise effect which I think did make it quite lino-looking. Although because of the backing fabric it does make it quite difficult to define the border, which I think would have made it a better motif, as it is quite dark due to the heavy stitching in the leaves.
I used the lilypad stitchings that I created here as motifs and created a few different patterns from them. I would probably place these more as blenders but again I think the backing fabrics made these quite dark and even saturating them up has not done too much to help it. I also think there is too much detail in these to really call them motifs, as then the background behind it looks far too flat and one toned, which I do not find as much when my motifs are made up of a couple of colours and are more graphic and present.
Tahlia Paige 