To go with the bed sheet i wanted to make a brain and a heart using the proggy technique. Using a combination of red and black fleece fabric strips, this is to show the inner struggles. To start the pieces i did a relatively quick google search to find the correct size of a human heart and brain so that they would be proportionate.
From this i found basic images of each and traced them onto some paper, keeping the sizing into consideration.
I then cut the shapes out and flipped them over to trace onto the stretched hessian.
I then went around the edges of each piece with two rows of the red.
I then started to fill in inside of the shapes with black. for the heart i did solid black but for the brain i had it more scattered amongst the red to show bad thoughts that i have.
Once finished i sewed around the edges of each piece so that the hessian wouldn’t fray like it did when i attempted the strips of it. this was a difficult process as the thick proggied material got in the way of the needle. If i was to repeat this process i feel that i would stitch around the shape prior to doing the technique
Once the pieces were cut and stitched i turned them over to view them however they kind of lost their shape a bit as the material flopped over. I think they will still be recognisable once on the main piece.
Below is the final piece all put together. I feel that the shapes did end up working once in the correct position on the body.