French style embroidery : monograms and blazons

On Feb 18, 2:08 pm, "Allyx" wrote:

Christele, Bienvenue! Your English is great, and so is your web site. I wish my French was as good as your English!! I believe you're asking which stabilizer to use for embroidering lace? If you mean free-standing lace, I have not tried that personally but I attended a class where the technique was discussed. They said to use water-soluble stabilizer like Aquamesh or Sulky Solvy, more than one layer if necessary, and then after embroidering to soak in water and the stabilizer would dissolve and you would be left with the lace design consisting only of thread. They also stressed that not every lace design will work, it needs to be digitized in a special way and say "free-standing lace design" otherwise when the stabilizer dissolves you will be left with a tangled mess of thread instead of lace! So if you plan to digitize your own lace designs, I would recommend purchasing a stock freestanding lace design to analyze in your digitizing software and figure out what needs to be done to hold the design together once the stabilizer is gone. One woman in the class I took brought in some lace Christmas tree ornaments that she embroidered this way and they looked great. Anita Goodesign makes some beautiful and well-digitized freestanding lace designs and they come with excellent instructions that recommend ABC's Aquafilm Badgemaster or Floriani's Wet'N'Gone. I found instructions for embroidering lace to edge a tablecloth on in the Project Gallery on Embroidery.com:

{297B560F-A5EF-4DA7-A1C5-9FA6B8AE79F0}= &DocumentID=3D1888&EFID=3D954&shopstop=3D1 I can't seem to make that link, so cut and paste it into your browser or just go to embroidery.com and search for "anita goodesign lace" and you'll see the project in your search results. Good luck (Bonne chance!) with your lace project and with your embroidery business, and let us know how it turns out! Rebecca

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Bienvenue!

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ALP, Mel> Hi,

Hello Rebecca,

Thank you for all your advices, excuse me to reply so late, I couldn't read this group before. I did as you tell me : using a water-soluble stabilizer and above all, using a lace design especially made for LACE. You're right, it's very important, I made a trial with an other design, which seems to be lace but not, and it's awful ! everything broken and all my embroidery went to dush bin.

But water-soluble is expensive. I read somewhere it 's possible to sew or stick pieces of water-soluble. Does somebody know what I mean ?

Also, I would like to know your easy ways to embroider on tee-shirt or jersey? that seems difficult to me.

Thank you for help, Hoping to read you soon

Christ=E8le from France (Normandy)

Here in the U.S., our hospitals use water-soluble material for laundry bags. At least one person buys these wholesale and sells small quantities, which is much less expensive than buying the water-soluble stabilizer. If you know of anyone connected with a hospital or nursing home, you could ask if it's possible to buy a few of the bags.

You can take your left-over bits that you have and carefully dampen the edges and piece them together. Not too much water or they will disappear! I would use waxed paper to lay them out on because it will peel off when it has dried.

Ok, I *love* that hint! I have been saving all my left-over bits of water soluble stabilizer, even though I had no idea what I would do with the. The instructions that came with the stabilizer (Solvy and Ultra Solvy) indicated one could dissolve bits, and brush the resulting (now liquid) product onto a project, but I didn't particularly like that idea.

Thanks, Joanne!

Beverly

You can dissolve them and use them like that, or if you have enough and don't add any more water than the minimum necessary to dissolve them, then pour them out into a Teflon coated pan and let it dry. I think maybe the new Silicon pans would work, too, but I don't have any and don't plan to get any to test it. I would tilt the pan back and forth to try to evenly distribute the solution. Then just let it dry thoroughly. Try to carefully pick up the corner and pull it off in a sheet.

If it doesn't work well, you've lost nothing but your time. ;-)

^^^ Nuts, that should read "...would do with them."

Cool, I'll give it a try with one of my Teflon-coated jelly-roll pans. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ;-)

Thanks, again,

Beverly

This man was driving down a country road when he saw a farmer with a pig in an orchard. The farmer was holding the pig up to an apple tree and the pig was happily eating apples. The man watched for a while as the farmer walked to the next tree, and then the next.

Finally, he could stand it no longer. He got out of his car, and walked over to the fence and hailed the farmer.

"What are you doing, if I might ask?"

"Feeding my pig apples," replied the farmer.

"Wouldn't it save alot of time if you put the pig on the ground and just shook the trees so the apples fall off?"

The farmer thought about that for a while.

"Yeah, I reckon it would. But.....

What's time to a pig?"

This has become one of those family traditions. When someone suggests trying something that might take some time, or a faster way to do something, the standard reply is, "Yes, but what's time to a pig?"

Okay, so now I am curious. Has anyone out there ever tried SEWING the leftover water soluble scraps together with water-soluble basting thread? Maybe abutting the edges and sewing with a 3-step zigzag or overcast stitch? The other ideas about wetting the stabilizer sound a bit too advanced and messy for me... :-) Rebecca

Love it!

Doreen in Alabama

Must....

borrow....

that.....

joke.....

for....

next......

family...... . . . . . . gathering! ;-)

It becomes one of those things that incorporates itself into the family culture. It's such effective short-hand for so many situations. The kids are a lot older now, and living on their own - with partners, some of them, so we no longer hear "But Daaaaad, that'll take forever!!!" which always got the response, "Yes, but what's time to a pig?" Still...suitable occasions occur.