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how do you learn to embellish?
Hi all,
After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted items and take them to a different level? What are your sources? What books have you bought? Which fiber artists do you emulate? Do you use Angelina Fibers? Do you couch threads, yarns, and new materials? Do you use found items? Help! Renee |
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how do you learn to embellish?
Hey Renee, just go with what feels right. If you think a block or Wall
Hanging needs something extra to jazz it up, experiment. Pin a fabric flower to it, or a ribbon or lay some buttons out on it to see the effect , then just do it. Start attaching those embellishments - whatever they are and wherever you found them. No rules just play. Heather in West Oz "Wren" wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted items and take them to a different level? What are your sources? What books have you bought? Which fiber artists do you emulate? Do you use Angelina Fibers? Do you couch threads, yarns, and new materials? Do you use found items? Help! Renee |
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how do you learn to embellish?
Wow! what an all-embracing question!
I can hardly wait to read the answers - not that I want to do it, but I love soaking up information on all sides of P&Q. .. In message .com, Wren writes Hi all, After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted items and take them to a different level? What are your sources? What books have you bought? Which fiber artists do you emulate? Do you use Angelina Fibers? Do you couch threads, yarns, and new materials? Do you use found items? Help! Renee -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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how do you learn to embellish?
Renee, my biggest problem is that you actually have to FINISH something
before you can embellish it! I took a class on this last month from Linda Potter. She has a book, "Quilt and Embellish in one Step", which is really good. I am like you. I love all the stuff, just don't really know where to start. One thing I am plotting is to use a fabric that has a strong motif. One of the things Linda showed was to outline and even fill in some of the design elements on a fabric. For instance, on one of the samples she brought with her, the fabric had a pheasant on it. She filled in the pheasant with bugle beads and seed beads and sequins, etc. It was gorgeous. Paisley figures were another that she outlined with beads. Flowers on fabric would be cool to embellish. She uses a long stitch to quilt and she uses beads with this process as well. I am seeing more and more books out there on embellishment. Keep after it, because it is sure beautiful. Cindy "Wren" wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted items and take them to a different level? What are your sources? What books have you bought? Which fiber artists do you emulate? Do you use Angelina Fibers? Do you couch threads, yarns, and new materials? Do you use found items? Help! Renee |
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how do you learn to embellish?
On 23 Apr 2006 17:18:20 -0700, "Wren" wrote:
Hi all, After going to the quilt show yesterday, it reiterated that I want to raise my creative senses to include embellishments. I've been buying them over the last couple of months but I haven't used any of them yet on a project. How did/do you learn to embellish your wall hangings or quilted items and take them to a different level? What are your sources? What books have you bought? Which fiber artists do you emulate? Do you use Angelina Fibers? Do you couch threads, yarns, and new materials? Do you use found items? Help! Renee The only time I've used embellishments on a quilt they were part of the overall design. I used a swizzle stick for a sailboat mast, and a toothpick and fishing line for a tiny fishing pole and line on my tropical fish wall hanging. I couched those found objects on by hand. I have also made some quilt blocks with purchased buttons added to them. I have rarely had to purchase embellishments other than buttons. What kind of things do you want to learn how to use? A lot of the other folks here have done more embellishing than I have done. Go to Google and check out the old messages about quilted post cards. Some of the people have been making postcards to practice using embellishments because the cards are small so they are easy to work on and don't cost a fortune even if you go wild and cover the whole surface with embellishments. Evidently the folks making post cards are so busy making cards that they haven't noticed your question. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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