BLOG - Embroidery

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about a client's photo serving as the inspiration for a new entryway door as well as the embroidery for the Living Room Window treatments. After a few revisions we are starting to narrow in on a final design.

To view the original post, click here.

Now on to some design options we have been thinking about.

Above is the first strike off that we received from the embroiderer.  At first I thought we wanted to keep the embroidery very simple like the sample on the right. But after thinking about scale and interest, I decided to do a few more revisions that highlight the lines filled-in, as seen on the left.

Last week I visited the embroiderer and they printed out a few variations on this new concept.

The original strike off with the rest of the elements of the room pinned up on the top left.

Playing with the elements of the design, which include color, line size, and fills.

I really love this new dark blue option but I am waiting for the strike-off to come back. We will keep you posted.

And now, I can't resist showing you a sneak peak of the embroidery for another project we are working on. While I was visiting the embroiderer I got to see them putting the finishing touches on window treatments for another client. I can't wait to see these go up!

One of my favorite things about my job is when a client agrees to go the custom route with any aspect of a design scheme.  Of course there are plenty of beautiful fabrics out there in the market but I just love taking our job as designers one step further and creating something truly unique and one of a kind.  For a project we are working in Florida, the concept for the embroidery of the living room curtains came from the design we did for a new entryway door.  The client actually provided much of the inspiration in the form of a picture he took while in Paris. He fell in love with the beautiful metalwork found throughout the city and captured 100s of images.  The picture below ended up being the inspiration for the new doors.

Once we narrowed down which inspiration image to go with, we finalized the below door design.

As the project progressed we decided that we wanted to incorporate the elements of the door into the embroidery of the living room curtains.  After we decided on a color scheme (seen below) we began to manipulate the pattern and play around with the repeat.

In the end we decided to take out the external diamonds around the border and simplify the design a bit.  The image below right shows the stitch type we are using.  

The strike-offs will be complete in a few weeks and we promise to update you on our progress!