WIPW - The Need to Cover Up

Work In Progress Wednesday.

Crazy for Crazy
I added two seams, one of them a beaded version.

Cathedral Windows
I am very pleased with the colourful look created by the background fabric.

On the other hand, I was not satisfied with the machine top-stitching for the turned over curves that I tried last week, so did them all by hand.
It took some time, but was not frustrating to stitch.


However, what WAS frustrating was to see that some of the inserted background pieces did not cover the joints properly.

Compare this reasonably good joint


with this horrible one!

The frayed parts must be covered up.
I will use either buttons or small plastic cups, covered with fabric to hide the flaws.

Here are the two parts of the bag, front + sides, and back.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 85: Wrapped Cross Stitch

Welcome back to Sunday Stitch School after our two-week long winter break. I hope you had a good time. I was able to stitch quite a lot.

So let's begin 2019 with a variation of the Cross Stitch, the Wrapped Cross Stitch.

The name explains everything! Make a Cross stitch and then wrap the two Straight stitches with  the same thread.

It is best to stretch the fabric in a hoop or frame before you start.

Homework:
Add Wrapped Cross near these stars.

A Gift From Korea

A visitor brought a gift from Korea.

Inside a frame are four hand embroidered thimbles. Yes, they are made from silk and with very fine embroideries. 

THESE thimbles are displayed in the frame, but real thimbles that are used in Korean needlework and quilting look the same.

I will not dare to use such fine work to push needles into thick layers of quilting!

In Korean they are called Golmu. You can read more about them here.

WIPW - Adjustments

A Happy New Year 2019 with best wishes for a productive and creative year with needle and thread.

During the year end and the new year holiday I have been somewhat productive. I also found I had to make some adjustments to my principle and plan.

Here is the first Work In Progress Wednesday report of 2019.

Crazy for Crazy
I used Stem Stitch to make the base for a spray of flowers, which I will add later.
I stitched an undulating ribbon of Puncetto Valsesiano lace.
I made some Granitos flowers.

Cathedral Windows

I wanted to follow the machine method I found on the internet for these windows, but I sometimes found it trickier than I had expected to do the tips. 

Have a look:

Here the tips are thin (two layers of fabric)  and I managed to stitch neatly, but

when the tips have a seam and fold of four layers of fabric, the tips are difficult to stitch neatly. 

By hand you can wrestle and manipulate, but by machine you simply don't SEE under the presser foot. Also approaching the tip, the presser foot might slip and the needle jump a stitch. NOT a good result!

I will therefor make some adjustments and HAND STITCH the tips and do the rest of the seams by machine. I'll see it that works out well or not. If not, I will do all the turned-over seams by hand.

Do you remember that I added a piece of fabric inside the folded square?

These can now be seen as 'glass' behind the 'lead' that is turned over the inserted 'glass'.

 

This machine method will have more 'glass' and thinner lines of 'lead'. The back of this bag will be more colorful than the front.