Friday 11 May 2018

May's Meeting: "Little Houses" with Janet Browne

Our "Little Houses" themed workshop with the Grassington Embroiderers Guild Group on May 2nd was another super day of creative sewing. Although Janet Browne was unfortunately unable to be with us, she sent materials and samples, and the day became a member-led workshop.
Drawing a simple design on dressmakers tracing paper, and then reversing the sketch onto a layer of wadding, a layer of calico and the background fabric, machine stitching could begin on the back using the traced design as a guide. We used a machine embroidery foot with the dog feed teeth down as this enabled the fabric to be easily manoeuvred.
The picture is built up by working from background fabrics to foreground fabrics. More detailed embellishing is done with machine embroidery and hand embroidery from the front.








 Have a look at Janet's web site for more inspiration.

www.janetbrownetextiles.com/
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