Last post for a couple of weeks...
Book cover 1
...so I thought I'd better make it a good one. I've been busy making book covers covered with machine embroidery and collaged. The technique I have used is to lay out some fabric, cover it with scraps of fabric and threads. Lay a piece of net or tulle over the top and stitch it all over. Once the stitching is completed burn back to tulle with a heat gun and you have the most exciting shapes and colours showing through from the lower layers. Great fun and a brilliant way to practice your machine embroidery.
posted by Jen at
5:46 pm
2 Comments:
I love ALL your bookcovers! What a great idea - one can read a racey novel with an artsy cover and no one will have a clue as to the book behind the cover!
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Pat Dolan, at 10:50 am
These are awesome...going to have to give it a try...since I wont have to buy any of the ingredients...and love using the idea of the hem stitch for quilting...
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Margaret McCarthy Hunt, at 7:10 am
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