{"id":6880,"date":"2021-08-04T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:14:59","slug":"sheer-overlaysstitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6880","title":{"rendered":"Sheer Overlays+Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my Pinterest wanderings I came across a print<\/a> “Water Dreaming” by Australian Aboriginal artist, Rosie Nangala Flemming. If you click that link, you’ll understand why it spoke to me of hand stitched texture<\/strong><\/em>. I filed the image in my contemporary hand stitch board, adding a note “lines = stitches!” To me, lines have always meant potential for stitches or seams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I backed some nylon organza with Misty Fuse, cut some shapes and ironed them onto fabric. The big bold stitches look easy-peasy, almost inept, even careless perhaps. But actually, it took several unpickings to figure out where my stitches should go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3.25″ x 3\/25″ Fused nylon organza on cream cotton; stitched with neon orange thread.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That sample has suggested some other possibilities; so the next is with red leather circles + neon green stitch. The black machine stitch line outlining the 3.25″ square of foam core mount will be removed, of course, once it is in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red leather circles with neon green hand stitch<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Triangles, squares, ovals, weird organic shapes – there’s a lot of potential here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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