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Question on Embroidering
I had an idea that sounded great, but it isn't working out too well - maybe
someone here knows the answer. I got some dissolving paper, and ran it through a copy machine to print the pattern on it I wanted to embroider. Then I put a light coat of basting spray on it, and tacked the paper to the fabric. This worked very well for embroidering a fairly detailed design, but when I went to dissolve the paper in water, I found that even a light coat of the basting spray created a sticky glue mess that didn't come off easily. So the question is - is there an adhesive I can use that will not interfere with the hand-embroidery process, and which dissolves quickly? -- Regards - Don Wagner (All you need is Love) |
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Don Wagner wrote:
I had an idea that sounded great, but it isn't working out too well - maybe someone here knows the answer. I got some dissolving paper, and ran it through a copy machine to print the pattern on it I wanted to embroider. Then I put a light coat of basting spray on it, and tacked the paper to the fabric. This worked very well for embroidering a fairly detailed design, but when I went to dissolve the paper in water, I found that even a light coat of the basting spray created a sticky glue mess that didn't come off easily. So the question is - is there an adhesive I can use that will not interfere with the hand-embroidery process, and which dissolves quickly? -- Regards - Don Wagner (All you need is Love) For hand embroidery, I find that tissue paper and a soft (2B), sharp pencil work best. Trace the design onto the tissue, then turn it over and rub the pencil over all design lines at the back. (You're making a sort of 'carbon paper' here...) Use a spent ballpoint pen to re-trace the design from the tissue to the fabric (the pencil will come off faintly onto the fabric and will wash off at the end if you're careful not to use too much 2B pencil. If your marks are too black, they'll smudge and refuse to come off! For dark-coloured fabric, you can use either a very sharp dressmaker's chalk pencil or a white colouring pencil. To remove these, brush with something like a toothbrush. Some people swear by those dissolving pencils/pens whose lines eventually dissolve over time or if you put them in water. I can't comment on those, since the lead pencil method has always worked best for me. I don't think you need to put yourself through the angst of trying to fuse on dissolving paper! It must've been a nightmare to work with! There are various kinds of tracing carbon available as well and I've heard others comment on their effectiveness. I guess I'm just a lead pencil girl at heart and wouldn't bother to try anything else! ;-D Anyway, perhaps my method will work for you - hope so! You could ask over at rec.crafts.textiles.needlework. There's people over there who are very well-versed in all the methods of design transfer. HTH, -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:50:16 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
For hand embroidery, I find that tissue paper and a soft (2B), sharp pencil work best. snip The lead pencil sounds like a good move. I use the dissolving pen stuff - it's like a purple felt-tip pen. It works very well and disappears in sunlight - if you're going to take several days to do the design, you have to hide it away out of the light and air so it doesn't disappear. TEST THE FABRIC FIRST! I've tried the heat-transfer type of design and don't like them, as you get a raised bit that is always exactly where you want to put the stitch. I also don't like dressmaker's carbon, as it's greasy and the marks won't come out easily. But the other method that works well for me is the old one: pouncing. You do this by drawing your design on paper, pricking it full of holes along all the drawing lines, placing your fabric underneath and then dusting soot or flour through the holes. You get a join-the-dots effect on the fabric, which works pretty well, but you really do have to test first to see whether the soot/flour washes out OK. I've also used 'hard pastels' to make the marks through the holes, because you can use colours like pale yellow on white fabric - better than either soot or flour. HTH Trish |
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"Trishty" wrote in message ... gentley snipped But the other method that works well for me is the old one: pouncing. You do this by drawing your design on paper, pricking it full of holes along all the drawing lines, placing your fabric underneath and then dusting soot or flour through the holes. You get a join-the-dots effect on the fabric, which works pretty well, but you really do have to test first to see whether the soot/flour washes out OK. I've also used 'hard pastels' to make the marks through the holes, because you can use colours like pale yellow on white fabric - better than either soot or flour. HTH Trish I like pouncing the holes in the paper as Trish suggested. A really easy way to get those holes punched is to use an old needle and sew the lines on your machine with no thread. I use a large sized needle, like a jeans or leather needle, works quite well. I use colored chalks to transfer through for the design. There is no oil on them so they will brush away. You just have to be careful in the handling so they don't get rubbed off in the mean time. Val |
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Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply wrote:
From: Trish Brown For hand embroidery, I find that tissue paper and a soft (2B), sharp pencil work best. ....... De-Lurking to ask Trish if she actually *does* hand embroidery (LOLOL)?? How's St. Frantic?? CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Queen of Kitties Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! Snerkle! Don't be impertinent, Tia Mary! Of *course* I do hand embroidery and you know it! LOL! I've been hand embroidering since I was eight and learned to do it from the Nuns! FYI, St Frantic is reclining somewhere in the bottom of a cupboard alongside DS' stinky old riding boots and DH's unspeakable lawn-mowing shorts! I have almost finished Celtic Christmas (haven't begun the beading yet) and have been putting the odd stitch into a Noah's Needle birth sampler for DS. I've taken up beading lately and have had fun making all sorts of beaded items for DD's and my hair. I've been *far* more busy sewing of late and have been trying to make a few more things for poor old DD to wear. The poor child's only half a step away from going naked (ie. has outgrown most of her clothes). At least she finally has some curtains on her window! (Small boring story in that!) Here it is: One day in October, it was quite hot and I'd been cleaning the bath. I was *stinking* hot and out of breath from all that bending over. I went into DD's room to open her window, noticed the nice breeze and thought 'I'll just have a brief rest on DD's bed'. I turned on the radio to the Forties Station (I love me Glenn Miller!) and began to doze. It was really very hot, so I took off my rather sticky T-shirt and basked in the lovely breeze coming in the window. Now, I should add that I live in a thing called a 'Miners' Cottage'. That's an extremely small house with seven extremely small rooms and an *extremely* small distance between itself and the neighboring Miners' Cottages! 'Bout six feet, I'd say at a guess...! Well, there I was ensconced in a Grand State of Undress (flesh-coloured bra!) upon DD's bed when Bill, the bloke from next door, decided to open his own dining room window. For a horrified instant, our eyes were transfixed each on the other's and our eyebrows shot up into our respective hairlines (Bill doesn't actually *have* a hairline, but I think you know what I mean...?) I lay perfectly still and slo-oo-owly pulled my T-shirt up over myself. Bill backed away from his window and the Incident was over. In my defence, I have to say that the distance between the houses is so small that a person would have to be standing in one very particular place in Bill's dining room in order to see right into DD's bedroom. Bill stood exactly there on that hot afternoon in October while I was resting on DD's bed in me undies! Fair dinkum! It *had* to be me!!!!! That afternoon, I purchased fabric for DD's curtains (features Harry Potter - she chose it herself) and made them that evening! Isn't it amazing how quickly one can work when one has A Good Reason???? Since then, we've had the annual Ballet Concert from Purgatory. As usual I had the predictable trauma of gathering squillions of linear metres of netting onto a smidgeon of flimsy white lycra. What fun that was! Then, I got to gather even *more* linear metres of netting and *tack it to a heavy denim overskirt* and *then* stitch it to some flimsy lycra! You have no idea! It's a wonder you didn't hear me swearing over on your side of the Specific Ocean! During DD's Dress Rehearsal, the cut edges of the netting sliced holes in her brand new lycra tights (cost me $16!!!!) and also in the year-old (but hardly ever worn) fishnets!!!!! I was beside meself! I darned up the holes with strands of DD's hair (just to bring this back on topic - well - sort of!) and was lucky enough to see that Jessie Wetzler had managed yet again to smear carmine lipstick on the bodice of her white satin tutu! I offered up a small prayer of thanksgiving (I'd much rather have the hairy darning than trying to get dark red lippie out of satin!) and slunk back to my seat in the auditorium. DD's costume did not fall off, DD did not fall over and it basically went pretty smoothly. I felt sorry for the mothers of the under eleven tap group - they had royal blue feather boas which fell off all over the stage and prevented the girls from dancing properly (their taps kept stalling on chunks of blue feather boa that littered the floor). Anyway, sorry to have raved on, everyone. Current sewing projects are bolsters for my kids' beds, summer clothes for the DD, shirt for DH's Christmas gift and a mountain of mending! (remember those unspeakable lawn-mowing shorts?) -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia PS. 'St Frantic' is a UFO of long standing - it's a cross stitch picture of St Francis of Assisi for which I've developed a Great Loathing (got scads of backstitching in it). I chucked it in the cupboard about two years ago and the relief was immense! |
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Question on Embroidering (Tia=A0Mary-remove=A0nekoluvr=A0to=A0reply) From: Trish Brown For hand embroidery, I find that tissue paper and a soft (2B), sharp pencil work best. ....... =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0De-Lurking to ask Trish if she actually *does* hand embroidery (LOLOL)?? How's St. Frantic?? CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary =A0 ^;;^ =A0 =A0 Queen of Kitties --- Errr...is there something the hand-embroiderers amongst us should know? Some hand needle virus making the rounds? Cea owned by dogs |
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When you get St.Frantic's backstitching done, you're welcome to do the
backstitching on a pair of chick-a-dees that I cross-stitched nearly 13 years ago! Every time I accidentally find that particular project, I make sure to lose it again really quick! Cynthia "Trish Brown" wrote in message ... Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply wrote: From: Trish Brown For hand embroidery, I find that tissue paper and a soft (2B), sharp pencil work best. ....... De-Lurking to ask Trish if she actually *does* hand embroidery (LOLOL)?? How's St. Frantic?? CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Queen of Kitties Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! Snerkle! Don't be impertinent, Tia Mary! Of *course* I do hand embroidery and you know it! LOL! I've been hand embroidering since I was eight and learned to do it from the Nuns! FYI, St Frantic is reclining somewhere in the bottom of a cupboard alongside DS' stinky old riding boots and DH's unspeakable lawn-mowing shorts! I have almost finished Celtic Christmas (haven't begun the beading yet) and have been putting the odd stitch into a Noah's Needle birth sampler for DS. I've taken up beading lately and have had fun making all sorts of beaded items for DD's and my hair. I've been *far* more busy sewing of late and have been trying to make a few more things for poor old DD to wear. The poor child's only half a step away from going naked (ie. has outgrown most of her clothes). At least she finally has some curtains on her window! (Small boring story in that!) Here it is: One day in October, it was quite hot and I'd been cleaning the bath. I was *stinking* hot and out of breath from all that bending over. I went into DD's room to open her window, noticed the nice breeze and thought 'I'll just have a brief rest on DD's bed'. I turned on the radio to the Forties Station (I love me Glenn Miller!) and began to doze. It was really very hot, so I took off my rather sticky T-shirt and basked in the lovely breeze coming in the window. Now, I should add that I live in a thing called a 'Miners' Cottage'. That's an extremely small house with seven extremely small rooms and an *extremely* small distance between itself and the neighboring Miners' Cottages! 'Bout six feet, I'd say at a guess...! Well, there I was ensconced in a Grand State of Undress (flesh-coloured bra!) upon DD's bed when Bill, the bloke from next door, decided to open his own dining room window. For a horrified instant, our eyes were transfixed each on the other's and our eyebrows shot up into our respective hairlines (Bill doesn't actually *have* a hairline, but I think you know what I mean...?) I lay perfectly still and slo-oo-owly pulled my T-shirt up over myself. Bill backed away from his window and the Incident was over. In my defence, I have to say that the distance between the houses is so small that a person would have to be standing in one very particular place in Bill's dining room in order to see right into DD's bedroom. Bill stood exactly there on that hot afternoon in October while I was resting on DD's bed in me undies! Fair dinkum! It *had* to be me!!!!! That afternoon, I purchased fabric for DD's curtains (features Harry Potter - she chose it herself) and made them that evening! Isn't it amazing how quickly one can work when one has A Good Reason???? Since then, we've had the annual Ballet Concert from Purgatory. As usual I had the predictable trauma of gathering squillions of linear metres of netting onto a smidgeon of flimsy white lycra. What fun that was! Then, I got to gather even *more* linear metres of netting and *tack it to a heavy denim overskirt* and *then* stitch it to some flimsy lycra! You have no idea! It's a wonder you didn't hear me swearing over on your side of the Specific Ocean! During DD's Dress Rehearsal, the cut edges of the netting sliced holes in her brand new lycra tights (cost me $16!!!!) and also in the year-old (but hardly ever worn) fishnets!!!!! I was beside meself! I darned up the holes with strands of DD's hair (just to bring this back on topic - well - sort of!) and was lucky enough to see that Jessie Wetzler had managed yet again to smear carmine lipstick on the bodice of her white satin tutu! I offered up a small prayer of thanksgiving (I'd much rather have the hairy darning than trying to get dark red lippie out of satin!) and slunk back to my seat in the auditorium. DD's costume did not fall off, DD did not fall over and it basically went pretty smoothly. I felt sorry for the mothers of the under eleven tap group - they had royal blue feather boas which fell off all over the stage and prevented the girls from dancing properly (their taps kept stalling on chunks of blue feather boa that littered the floor). Anyway, sorry to have raved on, everyone. Current sewing projects are bolsters for my kids' beds, summer clothes for the DD, shirt for DH's Christmas gift and a mountain of mending! (remember those unspeakable lawn-mowing shorts?) -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia PS. 'St Frantic' is a UFO of long standing - it's a cross stitch picture of St Francis of Assisi for which I've developed a Great Loathing (got scads of backstitching in it). I chucked it in the cupboard about two years ago and the relief was immense! |
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