Sunday, March 16, 2014

Module 2 Chapter 5 ….. Textured Tassel

 

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There are many flowers that lend themselves to possible tassel designs.

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Page 2   More flowers!!!

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Page 3.  Another interesting shape.

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Page 4   More ideas.

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Page 5.   I finally chose the columbine ……  I had this illustration in Chapter 2 Page 4 of Module 2.  Not an easy piece to develop but I persevered.

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Page 6   My drawings of the various components.  I chose 5 pieces of the tall flower petals.  The large leaf (sepal)  by itself was too big so I chose to put two smaller leaves together as shown on the right.  You will see as I go through the process of how I imagined the final product.

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Page 7.  The petals were joined together to make a “crown”!!!  Then I put the joined sepals across between two of the petals as seen in the picture below.  The fifth sepal had to be a single one. 

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Page 8.  My doodle cloth!! 

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Fabric and stabilizer – black felt

 

Page 9.  The petals.  Cable stitch  -   straight stitch around the outside and the spiral at the top using free embroidery. Automatic  flower stitch #22.for the rest of the petal with the feed dogs up and a regular sewing foot.   I stitched from top to bottom and over stitched areas where there were black spaces.    There is a lot of over stitching.

The stitch patterns are difficult to determine from the pictures.  And from the actual pieces. 

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Threads for the petals – bobbin thread - variegated fine silk cord (Treenway Silks) – colour - a tint of red orange.  Top thread  - Thread Studio – 100% rayon – variegated – colour -Carnivale

The top thread (or the back of the petal) complemented the colour chosen for the front.  As you can see, I made a mistake by stitching the cable stitch on the wrong side of two of the petals.  One was an accident and the other was deliberate!! 

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Page 10.  The sepals – cable stitch.  Again I used free embroidery for the outlines.  Then I chose an automatic leaf pattern #24.  First of all I systematically stitched from the top to the bottom …..  somewhat more regular than the petals.  I then overstitched using the same pattern  and a metallic green as a top thread  (no cable this time!!) The thread on the underpart of the leaf was the same for both stitchings.

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Sepals – bobbin thread – Candelight metallic yarn – colour 020 – melon and Illuminations Metallic thread – colour – leaf green from Thread Studio.  Top thread – 100% rayon – variegated green/red violet/ shade of yellow.

Sepals flipped over!!

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Tassle strings -  cut from a piece of painted cloth that complemented the thread on the back of the petals.  I did not use cable stitch but I did use an automatic stitch # 20 which resembles a tulip. I used two different threads ….  both 100% rayons from Thread Studio – Carnivale and Cradle Mountain.  I am sorry that I didn’t take a picture of the tassel stings before they were attached. 

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Page 11 – Putting the tassel together.  this was quite a challenge and did take some doing!!   I first of all hand stitched the five petals together leaving one set open so that I could maneuver the other stitches that needed to be done.  I was hoping to use the bar between two sets of petals as a base for holding the tassel together as well as attaching the tassel strings. However, this did not work.  I had to cut them apart and sew each one down separately.  Then I stitched two felt bars in a cross shape on the inside to hold the hanging string (a piece of silk cord with lots of wandering threads!!!).  I then stitched each of the folded in half  tassel strings to the felt bars. 

 

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Page 12  ……   The completed Tassel.   I took many pictures but here are two of them.

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I noted after the fact that I was not to do free embroidery.  Also the tassels should have had some cable stitches.  I thought that the end product would be too heavy!!!  

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