More!!

Guess it is just the time of year for competitions as these are more entries. These gave me the chance to experiment with my embellisher and a soldering iron for the cutwork.

Now you can tell why I have been so quiet :o)

Embellisher and machine embroidery

Having fun playing around with the use of the embellisher as a canvas on which to apply other techniques. This is a digitised machine embroidery design stitched out onto a piece of Timtex that has been previously "embellished". I used a sticky stabiliser with a window cut into it to hold the Timtex and floated some tearaway stabiliser beneath.

My Bernina stitched out on it with no problems at all. I thought the thickness and the bumps of the applied threads might affect it but no problems.

This is fun :o)

First go with the embellisher at last!

A couple of weeks ago I treated myself to an embellisher after resisting for as long as possible. Today was the first chance I have had to play on it .
This was done on painted Timtex and has wool roving (acquired at Woolfest last year), silk fancy yarn, ribbons and some Madeira gold FS thread used to embroider a little with a Bernina 180. The rest is just some stripped down silk flowers which allow a 3D effect.

I found it very useful to catch it all under some dress net to stop it moving whilst doing the needlepunching. The needles seem to go
straight through the holes in the net and then it just lifts straight off.