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beaded embroidery on clothing
A preamble: I've been pretty low energy all week, being on antihistamines for a
wasp bite I got last weekend - I spent Sunday night in the waiting room of a walk in clinic because my hand was swollen and I had a rash all the way up my arm. (The doctor took pictures of my hand and arm to show to medical students - my hand is going to be famous!) Four hours in the waiting room and I didn't take anything to do with me, rats! Well the wasps in my back yard are now history and I am beginning to recover some energy. It was a really hot day, so I decided to finish sewing up a pair of pants made from a couple of sarongs, dark blue with little fishies swimming about, nice and cool for a hot day. I finished them up, put them on, and sat in the canvas chair in the back yard. Ripped the back thigh out on a grommet. Crikey! So I was thinking of doing an applique of a sea horse over the rip. Do you think beads would be too fragile, considering placement? I was just going to fuse purple silk over the rip in the shape of the horse, do straight thread embroidery, and put a few beads in for embellishment. Maybe a few little thread tassels on the mane. Not really a piece that would launder well, but these are definitely summer pants, which doesn't last long here. Dora |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:57:16 +0000, Bungadora wrote:
snip So I was thinking of doing an applique of a sea horse over the rip. Do you think beads would be too fragile, considering placement? I was just going to fuse purple silk over the rip in the shape of the horse, do straight thread embroidery, and put a few beads in for embellishment. Maybe a few little thread tassels on the mane. Not really a piece that would launder well, but these are definitely summer pants, which doesn't last long here. Dora Interesting concept.... I think it would be a bit too hard wearing considering where they are ripped - IME, things like that don't last long enough to be worth the effort... Mavis |
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Yeah, you might be right. If the cloth rips that easily, it probably isn't
going to be the best base material for embroidery. I can't find my seahorse pattern anyway. Too bad I don't have fishies left over. Or maybe I do. Off to search the bags in the closet. (I cut these pants out 2 years ago.) Dora AmazeR So I was thinking of doing an applique of a sea horse over the rip. Do you think beads would be too fragile, considering placement? I was just going to fuse purple silk over the rip in the shape of the horse, do straight thread embroidery, and put a few beads in for embellishment. Maybe a few little thread tassels on the mane. Not really a piece that would launder well, but these are definitely summer pants, which doesn't last long here. Dora Interesting concept.... I think it would be a bit too hard wearing considering where they are ripped - IME, things like that don't last long enough to be worth the effort... Mavis |
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