Wool Hearts
Someone mentioned that they would like to see how the wool hearts turned out. You can see three of them on my Flickr pages.
The other day I went to the fabric store looking for wool in pastel shades. I had seen wool fat quarters online, but the store didn't have any, and the sales clerk said she hadn't heard of them. I then headed for the local thrift store and bought a jacket and three pairs of slacks (plus a long, purple silk dress) for less than the fat quarter packet. The colors were not pastels, but it is a start to see if I like working with wool.
I took a tip from a comment Beth Anderson made (thanks, Beth) on the Hand Embroidery group list and cut one of each color, then used a rotary cutter to cut them into sections.
Next I put the pieces together on interfacing to hold them for stitching with zig zag stitching.
I started embellishing last night, and the stitches glide through the fabric!
3 comments:
These look interesting !
These are going to be very interesting and look forward to seeing what you do on them.
I had not thought of using wool fabric.
that's a great idea - I have been wanting to do some stuff with wool but didn't think to look in the suits and pants.. I always think sweaters.. what do you plan on doing with the hearts? Wanted to tell u I pulled my CQ back out.. haven't done any in months.. I got hooked back on my XS kinda like you did.. but it's refreshing to think of doing something different for a change :-)
Courtney
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