I’m anxious to get stitching on the recycle piece. I think I’m done with the design stage. Today I will clean up my sewing room from the “plastic tornado” that has taken place in it. I will also pull out the gray and black threads I will use for the machine stitching. This plastic piece will be backed by a Pellon stabilizer.
Here’s the piece. The only color is the eye. It will have a small French knot in the center of it.
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Chris
I glued the Moon in place and removed the paper from the back of the Raven. I’ve started to add highlights to the bird. Still more to do on this piece, but I’m definitely getting there. I’ve really enjoyed working on this. I can’t wait to do the stitching to bring out all of the details.
Linking to Nina-Marie. https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/
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Chris
I’ve continued to make progress on my recycle piece. The book title letters are just sitting there at the moment. They still have to be attached to the piece. Working on the raven details will be next. The show is in April so I’m in good shape.
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Chris
I’ve made quite a bit of progress on the recycle piece. I’ve created the Moon, the background trees, and the books. Although the books definitely need some tweaking. As I look at this I see that it will need both machine and hand stitching for a lot of the details.
You will see that plastics wrinkle and that cannot be avoided. So you must embrace that fact.
Here’s a photo of one of the pieces with the steam a seam attached to the back of the plastic. This fusible adds “glue” to the plastic so it can be attached to the piece. Plus it makes it stiffer and easier to cut out the pieces. You can’t use a fusible like wonder under because it does not have the stickiness until it is ironed and you can’t iron plastic. So it has to be a fusible like steam a seam.
Here’s also a photo of my progress. Once I tweak the books I will work on the raven details.
Thanks for reading.
Chris
