I made several samples of fabric, including using painted Yupo paper.
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I used the embellisher, combining threads, plastic net and snippets of fabric onto white felt. I left the texture quite rough. The plastic net (yellow) didn't mesh well so I had to put pieces of fabric over the top to hold it in place.
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This fabric consists of black felt with an overlay of see-through mauve striped fabric. I stitched ribbon down with cable stitch and used an elongated set machine embroidery stitch for the other pattern.
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I applied painted bondaweb to soften the stitching.
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I used different effects to apply the slips.
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Hand stitched blanket stitch.
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Free machine zigzag stitch.
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Embroidery stitch with feeddogs up.
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Hand stitching.
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Beautiful Yupo paper coloured with yellow, blue. turquoise and gold.
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Snippets of organza on black felt, secured using a soldering iron. The pattern represents the petals on the passion flower, but it also looks quite like sea urchin spikes (not intentional!)
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I have placed 4 overlapping, unstitched Yupo slips down the centre of the fabric and used thick black thread to stitch them in place, following the lines of the underlying design. This creates a combination of texture and smoothness which I like and the combination is very subtle.
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I have machine stitched over the Yupo paper, however I don't think it enhances the over all effect. The needle broke up the gold paint slightly so I gave the bobbin case a thorough clean when I had finished.
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Yupo paper, stitched and heated with a iron.
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I added slips from the fabric made with the soldering iron. The colour schemes are the same, but the textures are very different and I rather like this effect.
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I have been using a blue/yellow/purple colour scheme throughout the diploma so decided to try to move away from my favourite colours, out of my comfort zone. The inks used here on the Yupo paper are poppy red, coral and purple and remind me of sweet peas.
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I don't have many fabric in this colour range but I found some red feathers in my stash. I used bondaweb to secure them together and then stitched along the shaft to attach them to the paper. As I stitched the feathers started to open out. I used a pin to separate the vanes. I was going to add extra stitching running from the feather to the paper but I thought this might spoil the simplicity of it.
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I love the fact that you can see the pattern through the feathers, where they have been separated. I did try using transparent slips over the paper, but they were too insipid and difficult to see.
