As we speak we are going to proceed our Dazzling Diamonds Sew-A-Lengthy
journey!
Hopefully, you’ve gotten pieced a lot of the blocks this previous
week. Now, we’re able to embroider the seam traces. The particular embroidery
stitches used are described within the guide (pages 22-27). There will likely be some Silk
Ribbon Embroidery (SRE) parts on many of those seams, however that instruction
will likely be in our submit on November 3rd. As we speak, we are going to focus solely
on the fiber embroidery parts.
Every seam begins with a BASE embroidery part. That is
then enhanced with extra parts of fiber embroidery and/or silk ribbon
embroidery in addition to beads/sequins. To start, we’d like a pieced block and the
base embroidery design.
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Then, we have to switch the bottom embroidery design
on to our pieced material block. There are a number of methods to perform
this:
1) Free-hand draw the design on to the block.
2) Hint the design to skinny paper (like tissue paper), overlay that to the material block then for stitching by means of.
3) Print the overlay on to sheets of skinny paper (like tracing paper), overlay that to the material block and sew by means of.
4) Print the overlay embroidery designs on to printable water soluble paper sheets. (That is the strategy described within the guide)
FHere is a hyperlink to obtain the Overlay Embroidery Designs for the blocks. Print and use one of many 4 strategies of switch above to position the embroidery guides on to your pieced blocks. Use the guide to information your precise embroidery to finish these BASE seams.
The entire above strategies of switch have professionals/cons. Different
than (a) you may be eradicating paper or water soluble paper after finishing the
fundamental embroidery. When you select the water-soluble technique, steps are included in
the guide on web page 19. Eradicating water soluble requires the appliance of water
to dissolve the soluble materials. That is finest accomplished underneath a operating faucet of
water, with the embroidered block going through down. Because the water-soluble materials
softens it may be gently scrubbed together with your fingers (beneath the block, instantly
on the embroidery, as water continues to run by means of the material block).
Moist blocks will then must be pressed dry. When you didn’t
pre-wash your materials, then the cotton material block will shrink barely. That
is ok, as every design included an additional seam allowance measurement for this
objective.
I’ll submit pictures of the water-soluble steps mentioned above
on my weblog (shawkl.com) as I work on Block #11. So, in case you want extra
info on on the how-to portion, bounce over there tomorrow.
