Jul 11, 2017
Silk paper with embossing powder and soluble paper insets. If you want to see how to make these, look for Maggie’s Grey embossing powder video on Workshop on the Web’s Facebook page.
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Silk paper with embossing powder and soluble paper insets. If you want to see how to make these, look for Maggie’s Grey embossing powder video on Workshop on the Web’s Facebook page.
Detail of embossing powder set into water soluble paper. If you want to see how to make these, look for Maggie Grey’s embossing powder video on Workshop on the Web’s Facebook page.
Great wrist bands can be made using water soluble film. Just draw a rectangle on heavy film and stitch diagonal lines of straight stitch. Metalic thread is good. Keep the lines close together and then stitch lines across the top and the bottom, as shown . Trim the edges, but don’t cut too much away. These edges will curl to make a rippling fringe. Now hand stitch into the centre area, couching wrapped cords or braids or beads – whatever takes your fancy.
Pin the finished piece to a piece of polystyrene (pizza packing is useful). Wash the film away, but try to leave a very small amount to stiffen the thread. Note the curly fringe. This idea comes from the d4daisy book Dissolvable Delights by Maggie Grey.
Maggie Grey used the resulting print as a background for two stitched fossil fish and a cast paper ammonite.
Even a run of the mill photo like this can be turned into a work of art with a Paint program. Maggie Grey uses Paintshop Pro and Photoshop Elements, both are budget options.
The Layers option in either of these programs can result in startling colour changes. Apps for mobile media can also produce good results.
The final piece can be printed on good quality printing paper, crumpled gently to produce a fabric-like surface and finally pinned to a fabric, ready to stitch.