Level 3, Chapter One
Flights of Fancy: Resource Gallery Page 1 - 8
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Line drawing of a Schnauzer dog from a folk art book.
Page 9 - pallette of colours
Page 10 Palette of colours
Cefn Burgess, Resource picture from Module 2
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A mosaic from one of my books - I love the soft sand and sea beach colours
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My painted papers with my transfer dyes.
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The transfer dye papers ironed onto white satin polyester
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My finished selection of transfer dyed satin polyester
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Selection of threads I will use in the next three samples, imitating the sky, sand and sea.
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Zig zag stitch varying the widths and working light to dark.
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Stitch number 8 used to imitate the mosaic tile feel of the resource picture
A variety of stitches used in different directions building up layers.
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Page 22 Playing with design from my resource selection 1 - 10
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Backgrounds - experimenting:
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My first background sample, navy felt with a calico backing. Resource used was the line drawing of the dog, page 8, tracing the edge down from the neck. I used stitch and tear to outline the shape then with free motion machining outlined the design. The pale blue is cable stitch in a Perle thread. Orange zig zag stitch fills the outer shape in varying widths. I finished by using a triple running stitch in yellow to bring back the outline.
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Yellow felt background. Backing stitch and tear with the design traced on.
Resource picture is the triangular roof in the Folk Art house.
I used cotton variegated threads, with a thicker thread again for the cable stitch in brown. I experimented with the cable stitch using zig zag - makes a very full covering / texture.
Automatic Patterns;
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Silver grey velvet, calico backing, stitch number 705 (swan) stitched horizontally in a deep purple cotton with 70 needle. I love this effect and texture.
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I found this lovely little piece of textured cotton in a bag of scraps from my local shop.
Stitch number 115 sewn in lines.
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Red silk on calico backing stitched with number 8 over frayed, hand dyed strips of muslin.
Stitch 3 and 9 in 2 rows to experiment.
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Red silk on calico with strips of deep blue chiffon sewn down using stitch 8.
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Cream silk , used a Sulky metallic gold thread and metallic needle - tension reduced to 3, to sew this sample in running stitch and zig zag stitch
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Black embroidered lace simply sewn in horizontal lines using stitch 305 (5.5 x 3.5).
Backgrounds - Fabric sheer strips
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Lime green felt background, ironed on fusible webbing, removed the backing paper and layered strips of torn red, blue and orange chiffon on top. Iron on with parchment paper, distress with a heat tool.
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Chiffon base and top layer attached to fusible webbing - snippets of different colours of chiffon covering the base layer and then the top layer ironed on to make a sandwich.
Fabric snippets
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Black selection of fabrics including the black embroidered lace shown earlier. A simple running stitch grid added in 3.5 running stitch.
Angelina
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Angelina fibres on black felt background ironed on using parchment paper.
Painted fusible webbing / transfer adhesive
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Acrylic paints on felt background, a single layer of orange chiffon layered on top and a simple running stitch grid in size 4mm stitched over the top.
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Acrylic paints on felt with a chiffon stitched grid.
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Close up to show the chiffon layer and stitched grid over acrylic paint.
Printed and Stitched Background
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Hand dyed satin polyester, printed using acrylic paints on my print block.
The design was taken from the dog drawing on Page 6 and my first background sample Page 26.
It was stitched using Sulky 40 threads and free motion running stitch, shading areas and outlining others.
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Second sample. Using the same print block plus an additional smaller block for the blue and gold printed on the similar satin polyester background.
This time using free motion zig zag stitch to accentuate the two orange chains and a running stitch creating a direction from first to second to the third chain and running off to finish.
