This little gold stencilled shape is about 1UY peso,1c US, or a pants button size, so you can see the fabric weave in very close detail. I really love this little snippet, because well, first of all it’s gold; but then I also love the way the stitches form a kind of embrace around the edge of the painted shape.

Fusing a shape of neon orange nylon and stitching with fine and heavy weight threads also gave interesting results:

I’m not hell bent on using orange, except that I do have a few metres of it and I do have probably ~1300+m of the heavier weight polyester thread to use, somehow…

However, it has given me some other ideas for some small things while I wait for the delivery of a floor standing embroidery/quilting frame a local carpenter friend Pedro is making for me. It’s just waiting for a little adjustment to be done, and is very close to being finished. With sections of polypipe to go over the sides to clamp the fabric in place, it will be much easier to manage large hand stitched pieces I’m keen to tackle.

It will be demountable for storage – but before we take it apart, every section will be clearly labelled! Some of the connector pieces are glued, but not all, and that would be enough loose pieces for me to get into a total tangle 🙂