Stole #1
I've been quite busy making stoles and antependiums for a nearby church. I digitized the embroideries and stitched them out in gold metallic. Here's one of them. The picture is not as sharp as I wanted it to be. The stole is draped over a dummy dressed in one of my tablecloths. For this design I scanned three vine leaves from the garden and resized them to a size I could use. The rest is just curly lines and satin stitch circles. Size 12 x 23 cm, 11645 stitches.
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heel mooi , werkt dat goed met metalic draad, ik heb het nog niet geprobeerd.
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by mops 15 days agoNeem er nooit de goedkoopste soort voor, zet de machine zo langzaam mogelijk. Bij het ontwerpen heb ik ook de dichtheid lager dan normaal gezet.
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Martine this is just beautiful - great job with the scanning of the vine leaves. I love the simplicity of the design - I often think the more simple the design is, the point that the designer is trying to get across, is easier to understand. Great job - love and blessings Chris
1 replies to this comment by mops 15 days agoThank you, Chris. I was told to do just what I liked, which is far more difficult than strict guidelines. So I did what I liked best: rather simple designs that can be recognised from a distance as well.
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Just beautiful and your work is great. Thank you for sharing this with us. **4U
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Martine, these stoles are beautiful! You have done a wonderful job!
2 replies to this comment by mops 15 days agoThanks, Yoriko, as I was left completely to my own devices a lot of time went into thinking what symbols to use and what sort of embroidery to choose, applique, full colour. You can see what I eventually went for: fairly simple gold embroidery.
by manami 15 days agoI admire your work so much, it's difficult to chose a design to go with something, and you did a wonderful choice on these ones!
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wow this is real great work and lovely design hugs Sonja
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I am sure this will be admired by everyone! Professional and beautiful Martine!
2 replies to this comment by mops 15 days agoThank you. my dad is staying till Tuesday, after that I'll send you what I promised.
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This is wonderful!!! I wish you could make it available for us to purchase. I could put it on things that I stitch for the Spa and Boutique. They love wine designs and I think they serve wine to customers. I have never been to spa section. Too pricey for me!!! This would be so good for wine gift bags, don't you think?
2 replies to this comment by mops 14 days agoI think you might be right, although I never thought of wine bags when I made it. What inspired me to do this were the first verses of John 15. Anyway, I think the design is too big. I measured the circumference of a wine bottle (24 cm) and the hight of the thick part (17 cm). The design is 12 cm wide and 24 cm high.
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Have you any tips for using the metallic threads? Would like some help, as I'm trying to make a Xmas Bauble wallhanging. Thankyou.
3 replies to this comment by mops 14 days agoIused 4 needles for 16 embroideries, so tip #1 is change the needle when thread starts to fray, metallic seems to blunt the needle quickly. #2 make sure the design is not too dense. I digitized them with the density set at 5 instead of the default 4 for fillings and .5 higher than default for satin stitch. Maybe you can lower the density of designs? Test stitch with metallic first, maybe not the whole design but at least a filled part of it and see what happens.
by mops 14 days ago#3 stitch at slow speed! I set my machine on 400 st p min and that worked finr for me.
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