With the design transferred to the back of the fabric and it stretched onto an embroidery frame, it’s time to start sewing. Firstly, I need the design on the front of the fabric, where I can see it. The background fabric is silk dupion in ivory; I don’t want to mark that directly as it’s…
Category: Chain stitch
Red bat – half the background

Pressing on, it’s the background next. The top half of it marked through from the back: And over-stitched: As the background design is quite fiddly (the whole thing is quite small) I’ve gone for one strand of stranded cotton and two of the machine embroidery thread, to make the lines a bit finer. It’s still…
Red bat – the bat itself

As I mentioned last time, to make a do-it-yourself metallic thread, I intended to stitch the outline of the bat using two strands of stranded cotton and two lengths of a glittery ‘holographic’ machine embroidery thread. And I’m pleased to say, it worked: That’s worked in chain stitch, and gives exactly the effect I was…
Spiral Abstract I – V

As suggested by regular reader Cynthia of California Stitching, here are all five Spiral Abstract pieces. Spiral Abstract I Spiral Abstract II Spiral Abstract III Spiral Abstract IV Spiral Abstract V I have another series of five related pieces in mind, but they’re going to have to wait – next time, I’ll tell you why!
Spiral Abstract IV

This is all going better than expected! I’ve now finished the fourth one in the series, though it does have rather less stitching in it than the others. Here’s the design, as a transfer on the lining fabric on the back: Then overstitched with running stitches to transfer it to the front: And then stitched…