Pat's Machine Embroidered Lizard Wall Hanging

Metal Embossed Tag

Continuing the metal theme I made a tag to put on the side

of the metal sketchbook.

It is a piece of tomatoe puree copper tube.

I embossed a pattern by drawing with an embossing tool

on the shiny side. 

Put some scraps of fabric on the back and sandwiched

this with a piece of water soluble dissolvable plastic, 

longer than the tag so I could stitch all round several

times and then made the frill by continually stitching up and down.

The plastic was dissolved with warm water and then

allowed to dry.

The frill will be a bit stiff until it has been in use for a while.

Cut Back Sheers

Textile Tuesday at The Art Room, is always busy with lots of 'Show and Tell'.

Me demonstrating and everyone doing their own projects

or the inspiration of the day.

This Tuesday, it was Cut Back Sheers.

As you can see by the class samples above they are all different!

So, once you have layered up your sheers, threads and snippets,

you can then freemotion stitch a pattern or in areas so that you can

then use a soldering iron to burn back to reveal back to the sheers.

Health and Safety here.

 Well ventilated room. 

Make sure you have a stand for your soldering iron.

Make sure you are working on a protective surface. 

Use a tool to move the hot sheer out of the way.

City and Guilds Prep

On a Wednesdays, I am now teaching City and Guild and course Prep

for those who want to come along and try new techniques

around textiles courses.

This includes getting to know your machine,

using different materials, Photo Transfer, 3D work

Embellisher Machines and Portfolios.

Above, are pieces that I have been helping Annette with

over the last couple of weeks.

The top picture is a mixed media piece with dyed and painted

papers, materials and lace.

Water soluble flowers and voile wired and machine embroidered flowers.

The bottom picture is a photo transfer of white flowers

and bamboo arrangement with lace and mixed media embroidery.

Lots of machine free machining and beading.

Annette is a florist and is wanting to use her Machine Embroidery

within her arrangements, like 3d sculpture pieces.

I start teaching City and Guilds Machine Embroidery and

Patchwork and Quilting Level One at the end of March.

Strip Cushion Session

During the classes, especially the 'Striped Crazywork Cushion',

I have been teaching all the students how to do

Machine Quilting and Embroidery.

Above, is Gloria busy on the machine, she has

really taken to it as you can see by her cushion

in the making.

See my cushions on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Sara Working Hard

Sara has been coming to The Gallery for a month and has

done so much in that short time.

Sara has chosen the theme of Butterflies and

has created so many lovely pages for her sketchbooks

and for future inspiration.

The piece at the top is the cover for a sketchbook

where you add your own pages.

The fabric for the striped patchwork came straight

out of the scrap bag and Sara had her first go at

Free Machining she is a natural!

So watch this space!

Machine Embroidered Leaves Nearly Finshed

Jeanette is now adding the last pieces and finishing touches to

her textile wall hanging.

It is a wonderful piece of work with so much detail.

Every leaf is different!

Well done Jeanette!

Click to enlarge.

See more of this wall hanging by

clicking on the written labels below.

Free Machine Embroidery

Jeanette is making fabric books in the shape of an archway.

After making the backgrounds and window shapes she is

making free machine embroidery additions to add details

and interest.

I normally use the water soluble plastic to embroider on

but Jeanette is using the water soluble paper!

It worked well but takes a little longer to dissolve and leaves

a bit of a pulpy residue around the intense detail.

I showed Jenette how to tease the pulpy bits out with a firm brush,

be careful not to pull or distort the stitches.

After its all dissolved the stitched interest can be cut out and I

use a soldering iron to reveal the layers of coloured

sheers underneath.

She more of my work on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

the fine details