This page is dedicated to samples of my Silk Ribbon Embroidery to start with
but I am hoping you will feel free to send in pictures of your work as a
show and tell.
I have a lot of work out there in the public on dolls that I embroidered
upon with my friend Truth. Soon when I have some time I will scan in
pictures of the soft sculpture dolls and the embroidery. On the samples
below I played around with some basic 5-petal flowers created with the ribbon
stitch and a french knot for the center. I also worked french knots
to create clusters of wisteria (my favorite flower).
This is a denim chambray shirt, from WalMart, that I am working on for my
daughter who has outgrown smocking, sniff sniff. She has given me
permission to embroider for her once again, isn't that nice? (Ok, only
another mother with teenagers would understand.).
The base of the vine for the Wisteria is a whipped running stitch worked
in YLI Silk Floss color #86 Spruce. A whipped running stitch
is quick and very easy to do as a base for vines and branches as you can
work the running stitch in any shape you like and come back and whip over
the stitches to add in depth. If I had more time I might have used
another stitch but since this was supposed to be a quick project I choose
the running stitch. The ribbons used for the Wisteria is YLI Overdyed
Ribbon color #004 Purple and the little flowers on the bottom are from
an old Petals ribbon that I had in the bottom of my embroidery basket.
The tones are shades of light aqua and light mauve, very pretty but not available
any longer.
Working with denim is a bit tricky sometimes as you end up bending your tapestry
needle with all the tugging. I solved this problem by working with
a Tapestry #24 instead of #26 as it has a bit more substance to it. If
the needle gets stuck trying to go through too many layers I use plyers to
pull it out. The trick is to avoid real thick seams and just aim for
embroidering on the body of the shirt or the placket rather than seams.
I apologize if my work looks a little sloppy as these days I refuse to get
bi-focals ...
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