Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Free Motion Practice

 

Free motion practice for today:

This worship banner is a team project, and I was in charge of stitching down the tree and roots.  At first I was thinking of using a little zig zag but quickly realized that all those roots would require lots of turning a very large piece of fabric.  So, free motion it was.

After lots of time and almost a full bobbin later, I've had lots and lots of practice in outlining the roots and tree and pears.  I used a tear-away stabilizer on the roots, but the tree had less stitching and the backing was pretty firm, so I skipped it there.  Thread was Sulky 40-wt rayon and a pre-wound bobbin. 

The really nice thing about a team project is that tomorrow I'm handing it off.  :) 

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