Every once in a while I like to try a new craft. I did promise Si, that I would focus, but temptation calls, especially when new the new craft involves fabric and flowers: two of my very favourite things. During my last visit to the Quilt Museum, in York, I saw a poster advertising a workshop to make fabric flower brooches and learn machine embroidery. Now I’ve want to learn machine embroidery ever-since Kirstie Allsopp declared it the crack cocaine of the craft world! I signed up, for the workshop, straight away. The workshop tutor was the very talented Diana Barrett: who through her brilliance led the class through everything we needed to know about sewing machines, setting the machines for machine embroidery and then making the fabric flower brooches. Here’s what we did…
Practising machine embroidery…
Getting more confident…
Even more confident: zig-zagging machine embroidery style…
Starting the brooch: stitching down layers of fabric…
Back looks more interesting than the front…
Flower petals begin to appear…
Front is beginning to look better…
Cut out petals…
The trickiest part of the day: making cord to go around the edges of the petals by stitching over embroidery thread…
Getting even trickier: sewing the cord to the edge of the petal: on a sewing machine, eeekkk…
Nearly there…
Ta-dah…
What a day! I was exhausted by the end of it. I’d learnt so much. Can’t wait to make more, my head is quite literally spinning with ideas.
Thank you Diana!
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