Needlepoint

There was a time before the joys of a laptop on one's lap when I used to do needlepoint while watching television.
I have never done a needlepoint where the design is printed on the canvas and it is just a 'painting by numbers' exercise.
I must take it up again. I like the idea of using the technique of developing a design on the 'puter then enlarging it to such a desgree that the pixel size is the same as the canvas grid size.

Most of these were stretched into shape ~ they seem to have relapsed to their originally wonkiness.

Bamber Hawes ~ This was based on a photograph that I took of the facade of a factory building reflected in the Regents canal, just along from where we lived on a narrowboat in Hackney.
Bamber Hawes ~ I sketched a still life of a dismantled pillar drill straight onto the canvas.
Bamber Hawes ~ The inspiration was a rusty spike and a child's footprint, why not
Bamber Hawes ~ A depiction of a piece of decayed aluminium

Bamber Hawes ~ Fields taken from website of aeriel photos of Minisota.
Bamber Hawes ~ Sketch done on the 'puter.
$Bamber Hawes ~ Fractals. I had a fractals programme on my primative 'puter. I manipulated the images and then enlarged them by 851% so the pixel size was the same as the canvas grid size.$
Bamber Hawes ~ Fractals. I had a fractals programme on my primative 'puter. I manipulated the images and then enlarged them by 851% so the pixel size was the same as the canvas grid size.
Bamber Hawes ~ Wiggles
Bamber Hawes ~ My smallest needlepoint mounted in a found piece of metal.

Bamber Hawes ~ Overlapping letters
Bamber Hawes ~ This was the beginings of a large stitching project that would be called 'Neddlepoint TV'. The idea was that if I watched two or three hours TV of an evening I could complete one of these small pieces. Later I would stretch them into shape and sew them togehter ~ to be continued...
Bamber Hawes ~ This is an imperpritation of a design by Henri Gaudier-Brezka ~ one of my heros when I was at art school. Mounted in lino and scrap wood frame.