Is anyone embroidering any thing here ?

I am doing a totally fun piece - an embroidered interpretation of a line drawing I found at my local Girl Scout council. It is 12 small blocks - the top row is outdoorsy stuff, the second row girls particiapting in activities and the third is the letters CAMP with small motifs. I'm doing it in bright colors - it's going to be hard to let it go to the council, who I promised I would give it to!

Linda

Linda i like that !!! Do you do it all in embroidery or do you add some applique on the girls` clothes ? mirjam

I want to see these!

Cheryl

Mirjam Bruck-Cohen said

I just finished embroidering and embellishing 3 scenes from Lula's fabric, one heart filled completely with colonial knots using waste perle cotton, and a summer weight jacket embellished with stitched fairies and flowers and lots of bottons. I've also been working my way through the stitches in Joan Gordon's Silk Ribbon Embroidery Bible.

I mean to practise the techniques in the doll making book I bought on your recommendation. However, much as I love to embroider, I hate to sew so I've been putting that off.

If you would like to see my GS camp, I posted some pictures

anne wrote: I've also been working my way through the stitches in Joan Gordon's

That's very systematic of you! I bought this for myself at Christmas, but haven't done much out of it yet. It's a good book though, isn't it?

I started a jewelery bag last week, using diagrams and directions for embroidering one of the irises in Trish Burr's Redoute's Finest Flowers in Embroidery. I need to re-draw the lines though. My blue line pen was all dried up, so I used a regular pencil. The lines are hardly dark enough to see though. So I might just have to hold out on this one until I have another blue pen.

Dora

bungadora said

I've been 'chastised' a time or two and told that it is important to learn the 'right' way to do something before trying a different method to do the same thing. Therefore, I'm trying to learn the correct way before I discard it and do my own thing

Most of the stiches I've done with floss but I'm having a bit of difficulty getting the ribbon not to 'scrunch' at the entry and exit points. FYI, I'm working with 4mm ribbon and large eyed (20 ???) chenille needle.

lewmew said

Dunno, haven't done enough SRE to say for sure. However, it seems to me that happened when I was using too firm a fabric, or the backing fabric was too dense.

I had some white curtain lining fabric, very firm cotton, left over from when I did my BR curtains and I used that as a backing for some crazy quilt pieces. Not a good idea. The backing fabric was too densely woven so I really had to pull to get the ribbon through, and crunched all the life out of the ribbon.

Otherwise, it's 4 mm ribbon going through a tiny hole in the fabric, so it has to 'scrunch' to a certain extent. Perhaps laying the ribbon helps?

Dora

I've done a bunch of SRE on all sorts of ground fabrics and agree with Dora -- it's the nature of the beast to have the ribbon "scrunch" at the entry & exit points. SRE can be done on just about any ground fabric that is stable enough to give the ribbon a decent foundation. So much of what you see is done on *very* firm fabrics like satin, moiré & dupioni. I personally like it on the stiff fabrics but am also partial to velvet and denim! Anyway, use of a laying tool will help the entry & exit points to be not quite so scrunchy. But then, I rather like the scrunchy look and try not to straighten it out too much unless it's absolutely necessary. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

One can always back any fabric with muslin, especially if using the finer fabrics. It must be dense enough so that the ribbon (and threads used to tie it down on the back) aren't seen through the fabric.

You can also use a large needle, but yes, it will fold together at the entrance and exit points. That's the nature of the beast. Laying carefully does help make it less noticeable, but it will be there, nonetheless.

Dianne

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