Embroidery.
Contents
Design
Fabric
Embroidery
Sewing
Appliqué
QUILT ASSEMBLE GO!
Free motion quilting
Binding
Finishing touches
Baby shower
Embroidery
I have never embroidered before, so I was a bit lost when it came to this. I checked online, and found a really great site called Needle 'n Thread. It covers everything from starting the thread, transferring the pattern, different types of stitches… They also have videos, it's fantastic.
I snagged a cheap embroidery hoop from Wal-Mart, but there have been so many at every second hand store I've been to the past few days, I would recommend looking there first. You'd likely get a better one for cheaper.
I was a little bit bass-ackwards with how I did the embroidery, and did it before cutting out the patterns. I didn't want to cut out the suit, for example, and then sew it down and have to embroider through two thickness' of fabric as well as having the weight and heat of the darned thing on my lap during summer… But that would have been much smarter. Obviously.
I traced the pattern out on the fabric, did the embroidery, re-traced the pattern (it had rubbed off) and had to fudge it, since everything had shifted. The embroidery on the arm isn't quite what I wanted, but no one will ever notice. Without me mentioning it. Whoops.
For the TARDIS sign, I went online to find a premade one on tibots' dA page. I resized it, as well as changed the perspective so that it would sit on the door better.
Transferring the pattern onto the flannelette was a bit of a trick. I wound up going over the designs with a black marker, and then holding the pattern and fabric over a lamp and tracing onto the fabric with a 6B pencil. Strangely, the 6B smudged much less than the 2B I originally used.
While I was working on the first police box sign, I complained about putting on two sides of the TARDIS to marii_chan. "Why did I do it?" I whinged. She rolled her eyes (shut up, you did!) and then showed me how I should have done it:
The caption? "The coolest Tardis ever!!! Of all Time!!!!!!!"
That black squiggly line? The details on the front of the TARDIS. Also, that's a 'B', and not an '8'.
Her point was that the easiest and most dramatic way to go about doing the TARDIS would have been a deep shadow on the far side but... I just didn't think of it.
I will always laugh at this drawing, since marii_chan is an obviously fabulous artist. Especially with her mouse track pad.
Before finishing the ends on the faces, I thought I should show the Doctor's fancy moustache.
Everyone is more fancy with a moustache. True fact.
There is no excuse for this.
By May 10th 2010, I finished (almost) all of the hand embroidery. I did two faces, two mittens, four windows, the whole sign on the front of the TARDIS, the pinstripes on Ten's suit, and two police box signs. I later decided to do stitching on Ten's shoes, using my own converse as a guide. I think I got it pretty accurate!
Snazzy.
I've discovered that I don't have even stitching, and next time I will stitch on something that has an easier weave to follow than flannelette.
Design
Fabric
Embroidery
Sewing
Appliqué
QUILT ASSEMBLE GO!
Free motion quilting
Binding
Finishing touches
Baby shower
Embroidery
I have never embroidered before, so I was a bit lost when it came to this. I checked online, and found a really great site called Needle 'n Thread. It covers everything from starting the thread, transferring the pattern, different types of stitches… They also have videos, it's fantastic.
I snagged a cheap embroidery hoop from Wal-Mart, but there have been so many at every second hand store I've been to the past few days, I would recommend looking there first. You'd likely get a better one for cheaper.
I was a little bit bass-ackwards with how I did the embroidery, and did it before cutting out the patterns. I didn't want to cut out the suit, for example, and then sew it down and have to embroider through two thickness' of fabric as well as having the weight and heat of the darned thing on my lap during summer… But that would have been much smarter. Obviously.
I traced the pattern out on the fabric, did the embroidery, re-traced the pattern (it had rubbed off) and had to fudge it, since everything had shifted. The embroidery on the arm isn't quite what I wanted, but no one will ever notice. Without me mentioning it. Whoops.
For the TARDIS sign, I went online to find a premade one on tibots' dA page. I resized it, as well as changed the perspective so that it would sit on the door better.
Transferring the pattern onto the flannelette was a bit of a trick. I wound up going over the designs with a black marker, and then holding the pattern and fabric over a lamp and tracing onto the fabric with a 6B pencil. Strangely, the 6B smudged much less than the 2B I originally used.
While I was working on the first police box sign, I complained about putting on two sides of the TARDIS to marii_chan. "Why did I do it?" I whinged. She rolled her eyes (shut up, you did!) and then showed me how I should have done it:
The caption? "The coolest Tardis ever!!! Of all Time!!!!!!!"
That black squiggly line? The details on the front of the TARDIS. Also, that's a 'B', and not an '8'.
Her point was that the easiest and most dramatic way to go about doing the TARDIS would have been a deep shadow on the far side but... I just didn't think of it.
I will always laugh at this drawing, since marii_chan is an obviously fabulous artist. Especially with her mouse track pad.
Before finishing the ends on the faces, I thought I should show the Doctor's fancy moustache.
Everyone is more fancy with a moustache. True fact.
There is no excuse for this.
By May 10th 2010, I finished (almost) all of the hand embroidery. I did two faces, two mittens, four windows, the whole sign on the front of the TARDIS, the pinstripes on Ten's suit, and two police box signs. I later decided to do stitching on Ten's shoes, using my own converse as a guide. I think I got it pretty accurate!
Snazzy.
I've discovered that I don't have even stitching, and next time I will stitch on something that has an easier weave to follow than flannelette.