Getting it right

Those of you who follow my blog posts will know that the Parallel Practice residency at King's has been full of ups and downs.
I’ve moaned about how small I have had to work; I am used to working in metres and now I am working in millimetres.  My piece for Cloth and Memory 2 was featured in the December '14 issue of Embroidery magazine in a feature about monumental scale textiles, and I am currently finishing two quilts for the ‘Error in the bone’ project that are each 3msq.
Today I am emailing about whether the PCB is 17 or 20mm; just so you know, a penny is 20.3mm.  I am not complaining about this but using this as a stark illustration of the difference in the way of working for me.  The other challenge I have had is the technical one: that circuits aren’t right or contacts aren’t good enough; that threads have shorted or that work has been just ‘wrong’ and often I have struggled to find the ‘right’ way.
So here is a lovely positive image of getting it right.  The image on the little screen is a wave form of the electrical impulses (or EMG) of Ali’s bicep moving.  The sensors are embroidered; the band making contact is textile.  Result!