Jamie loves this sort of project which allows her to combine her love of block printing with stencils and then use some simple embroidery stitches, such as seeding, french knots, chain stitch. What an great and individual project you end up with!
Here she takes a very plain and ordinary towel and with a combination of all those elements mentioned, turns it into a really lovely, personalized piece of work. Don’t worry if there are splodges, they can be hidden and/or become embellishment opportunities.
To obtain any of the items that Jamie mentions, so that you can make one yourself, you just need to click here to go to her website.
This could be a great project for the summer to share with some of the younger age group.
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The small range of bird pictures designed by Kate are easy to create with fusible applique. It is really simple because you need only trace and cut out!
Kate takes you through how to create the Blackbird picture from using the bondaweb, through the tracing, cutting out and then the application on...
Gail talks through her inspiration for these adorable little creatures and shows how to create the spikes from fabric, wool or even recycled shirting and denim jeans.
Created from folded squares, her patterns come complete with all the sizes and templates you will need. Large hedgehog finished 18...
Jamie loves to block print and by using this Decolourant paste she adds yet another dimension, as if by magic, to her work. Decolourant acts like a bleach in that it takes the colour out of the fabric, leaving the block print behind, and the magic begins when you have let the paste dry, and then ...
