free machine embroidery – Julie Heaton https://www.julieheaton.com Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:23:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Making an image from the CT scan https://www.julieheaton.com/making-an-image-from-the-ct-scan/ Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:47:58 +0000 https://julieheaton.wordpress.com/?p=796 Whilst many projects initially seem like a very good idea, I often find that the early days are quick to throw up problems, and make you wonder how it might work out. I had a simple idea – I would make a dress entirely from drawn thread and include an image from my CT scan that would represent bronchiectasis.

First I needed to get hold of my CT scan images. I started by contacting the consultant who supported my project, and he directed me towards the radiology department, where a seemingly complicated process of gaining consent to access records eventually resulted in me getting a copy of my CT scan. Once I had the disks another problem arose – how to read the images so that I could recognise the diseased lung from the healthy tissue. The consultant radiologist at Southmead kindly agreed to meet me and explained that there was a classic shape that signified the disease: a signet ring. In healthy lung tissue the bronchi which allow air to pass through the lungs are the same size as the accompanying blood vessels. In bronchiectasis the damaged bronchi have an enlarged lumen, which provides the signet ring appearance.

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Transverse image CT scan

Transverse image of CT scanWith a basic understanding of what I was looking for, I printed several different images from my CT scan. I cut, arranged and rearranged images and then made some samples in free machine embroidered  1/4 scale blocks on dissolvable fabric.

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Transverse image as seen on scan
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Abstracted image with scan detail
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Geometric design showing signet ring appearance 
]]> The Park Street Collection https://www.julieheaton.com/the-park-street-collection/ Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:55:09 +0000 https://julieheaton.wordpress.com/?p=196 I have finished my free machine embroidered drawings of small, inconsequential details of damaged corners of buildings on Park Street, Bristol. I like the fact that details that we normally ignore can have a new meaning when their original identity is removed. But the new meaning is now about memory; days enjoyed with my boys in Bristol frequenting places that will now play an important role in the recollection of the years we have shared together before they venture off to a university in a new city. I think this is true for many of us – the importance of detail that once we may not have noticed until it becomes an inherent part of our past.

 

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The Park Street Collection, 2016

 

I now have to decide how to present my drawings for Art in Action, 2016.The original plan was to use the small drawings for  gift cards, but I am now wondering if they could form series as above, or be individually presented, floating  in frames?

 

 

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