My idea was to use my singer to couch down gold and then embroider in the details of a butterfly. what I ended up with an opportunity to try something different to achieve my goal.
finding the right or semi-right foot
you never want to see this!
the spool picked up the thread from the cone holder
Got the machine couching down
After: Nope not going to work, wrong fabric, wrong gold braid
Back to the drawing board!
Thanks for stopping by!
Ginny M
2 comments:
Great idea, Ginny. May I suggest maybe a fine closely woven linen base, (if you want an embroidery fabric) or any fabric suitable for surface stitching, but with a bit of 'body' to hold the butterfly shape. The basic machine couching looks as though it 'worked' o.k., but being on aida cloth would have made a fairly 'rough' surface for the machine to stitch on.
Blessings
Maxine
Hi Maxine, you are totally right the Adida cloth did not work and the gold rope was too heavy! I am more comfortable using linen as a ground cloth. I am redoing this by hand using another piece of adida and while the stitching is going well, I still don't like the adida. I will save it for cross stitch in the future. I took notes on your advice! Thank you!!
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