Whilst I love sewing by hand, my carpal tunnel and deadline for finishing this gown mean that I must learn how to use some of the embroidery stitches on my sewing machine. I'm slowly improving.
My fabric, an embroidered silk from puresilks.us in India |
My hoop (Simplicity 3635) and stays (Nehelenia) |
Stomacher design |
Boning the back of the stomacher |
Sewing the design lines onto the front |
Playing around with trimming ideas |
Getting my punches to work |
Two punched silk sleeve flounces |
Embroidered design onto silk flounces using tear away stabiliser |
After ironing remove the tear away stabiliser |
Carefully cutting away the edges |
Two large and one small flounce done, one more to go. I'm getting a little better doing machine embroidery. |
3 comments:
Oh WOW! This is going to be stunning!
That is going to be remarkable!! Well done!!
Grace e
Thank you :) I am working slowly as I've got a few jobs on my plate that are taking priority, but today did some more work on my sleeves.
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