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I have thoroughly enjoyed completing the little embroidered
bowl this week. It is such a change from my usual sewing and there is a lot of
freedom for design in pattern and colour with the threads. Machine embroidery
is so forgiving as layers can be added on top of any areas that you don’t like!
When I was happy that I had done as much detail as I wanted,
I trimmed away the excess soluble layers from around the outer edge. The
embroidery was then placed into a round flat dish and boiling water was poured
over the top. Because I wanted to have quite a rigid bowl, I didn’t want to
wash out all of the vanishing medium. I wore rubber gloves to handle the piece
and washed away as much as I thought necessary by replacing the hot water. The
piece was then put onto an upturned bowl to dry naturally and that is when the
colour and beauty of the sheer fabric between the layers of stitches starts to
become evident.
This is the vanishing medium I use for solid structures like
this bowl.
I had a lunch date here with my ‘bestest’ quilting chums and
we sometimes have a show and tell of our latest finished pieces. Gwenda had
made a quilt for her granddaughter, a beautiful batik star in graded colours.
These fabrics were chosen over the phone by Gwenda when her family were
holidaying in Florida, thus illustrating the power and effectiveness of modern
technology! It shows the sunset, sky,
reef and sea. Just lovely!
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