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Monday, August 15, 2005
Coral Rockpool
Detail coral rockpool
This is the piece of fabric which I painted on Saturday but now stitched and quilted. I thought the fabric was too bright and needed toning down, so I transfer dyed a piece of polyester transparent fleece in a royal blue and turquoise and laid that over the fabric and then cut away. I like the way the squiggle lines came out and will try some more of this- I have in mind doing a drawing and then cutting away and seeing what it looks like. I really need a heat press though as the iron is not the best way to transfer the dye onto the polyester fleece. I would also really like to get a hold of some 30 weight machine embroidery thread- the slightly thicker thread sits more on the surface where as the 40 weight seems to sink in more and disappear.
Well, I don't know about the previous comment! but I have found that with longer stitch more of the thread stays up on the fabric and shows - this may not be quite the solution to thick v thin thread, Dijanne, but sure makes one heck of a difference wehever I use a glitter thread. If you are fortunate to have a machine like my much-missed bernina 1230 currently languishing in Aus, you can use the top stitch feature, ie it only catches the bobbin thread every second time, making a double length stitch without the gathering effet a long stitch often makes. More of the glitter showing, less of it diesappearing down the hole.
ReplyDeleteI really, really love your work and would love to learn how to make that kind of fabric. Do you have a book or a video or something?
ReplyDeleteRe: "the fabric was too bright and needed toning down, so I transfer dyed a piece of polyester transparent fleece in a royal blue and turquoise and laid that over the fabric and then cut away."
ReplyDeleteOK. What is polyester transparent fleece? I love the effect of the over-lay although I also liked the piece prior to it... You chose to punch up the blue/turquoise but could have just as easily heightened the reds/oranges for a totally different effect. Not so much a coral reef, more of a hot desert that way!
Can you explain 'transfer dying?' I'm thinking it must be something like monoprinting?
Thanks for so many new ideas/techniques/inspiration!
Pat in NJ