I recently learned about a kind of embroidery called bobbinwork where you put a really thick thread in the machine bobbin and sew from the back side and it's so fun! I've tried doing a bunch of sample lines and shapes and squiggles, but most importantly I have made a beautiful garlic. I'm doing it mainly with the regular sewing foot and a lot of pivoting, because when I try it with the free motion foot it skips a lot of stitches.
well thats neat as hell :o also, woah, vintage embroidery machine?? sweet
no no not an embroidery machine, it's an ordinary Singer 15-91! Just a basic domestic machine that does straight stitch forwards and backwards and that's it. But there's a lot of embroidery you can do without a special machine! I've just come across a very intriguing 1911 book on the subject which I'm excited to read.
And there is a lot of fascinating stuff in the 1997 video that I posted about a while ago. She's also using a domestic machine without any fancy embroidery settings or attachments (beyond a darning foot and a hoop), but being newer it has zig zag, which has even more possibilities.
