Practice embroidery
#33
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: San Diego Ca
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Lion in Flowers Amazing nicely done.
[QUOTE=Barb2018;8094523]This is a design that I fell in love with and it's going on a quilt for a friend. I used a fat quarter that I didn't like because I didn't think the embroidery would turn our so well on my first attempt in over a year. These are not the real colors, but really close because I was afraid of running out of the colors it called for. I used only one layer of heavy weight tear away stabilizer, used a generous amount of starch and went so slowly that it took over 5 hours yesterday.
The real piece will get two layers of stabilizer to see if I can get rid of all the ripples at the edges. It's a very dense design (over 82,000 stitches) so I know some is inevitable but I'll try. I'm going to start it tomorrow morning. It's a design I found at Urban Threads and is called Lion in Flowers.
Please let me know if there are things to do to improve this.
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amazingly nicely done...... you got me inspired.
The real piece will get two layers of stabilizer to see if I can get rid of all the ripples at the edges. It's a very dense design (over 82,000 stitches) so I know some is inevitable but I'll try. I'm going to start it tomorrow morning. It's a design I found at Urban Threads and is called Lion in Flowers.
Please let me know if there are things to do to improve this.
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amazingly nicely done...... you got me inspired.
#36
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 1,568
I would prewash the fabric first. Then press, then do the embroidery. 82,000 stitches is a lot and when the quilt is washed that embroidery will shrink up and pull up due to the fabric shrinking. That's why I always prewash my fabric before I embroider on it. I also prewash towels, t-shirts, etc., anything that will shrink.
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