Stitched Spaces
Stitched spaces is an extension of my stiched technical drawings. I wanted to make them more accessible to others to complete and do. I printed a blank generic floor plan onto some large aida and asked people to sew on their ideal space.
I felt that the idea of sewing a home helps to cross the barrier of sewing being a women’s only craft. The building and designing of the home is a stereotypical male job but the home making and keeping is very feminine. The idea is the stitch onto the given house plan and design your ideal space, unlike most cross stitch patterns it leaves space for you to use your imagination instead of following a pattern; leaving space for personalisation.
Overall I got positive reactions and people got very into it. the time it took them to sew; and in some cases learn to sew they could think through what they wanted in their space, creating and thinking of the most personalised space possible.
In the future I would like to turn this into a workshop to think our spaces and how different people interact with a space.