the gaps between the memories

I been bothering me that the house pant dress is really not a garment I would want to wear. This is totally wrong. Over the weekend, in response to thinking about this, and seeing an amazing embroidered Greek(I think) costume at the Grayson Perry thing at the BM, it became obvious that although the embroidered dawings are minimal by design, the garment itself can still be celebrated with its own embroidery.

16/17th century english embroidery

On looking through one of my fab textile books from the V&A, this one Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750, it seemed possible to use 'blackwork' as a starting point. It was a technique often used to decorate shirts and other garments. Looking at more examples online, it all looked rather elaborate and against the spirit of my embroidery.

sampler also shows an 'openwork' trial (the three small squares) very slow and would take ages to get good enough to make it consistent.

I made my own small sampler thinking about the edges of the garment, armholes, neck and bottom of the legs. The gaps between the memories are still a bit of a void in my mind though. I liked the random stitches, a bit long for seed stitch, but could flow into the lines at the edges. I think the gaps will be unresolved until most of the memories are embroidered. I've done all but two as drawings, but need to get them onto the garment so that the gaps between the memories can be looked at.