A few weeks ago my niece Lucy asked if she could borrow my machine to make some lace for her a project for college. She knew I had a free motion embroidery foot for my new machine. Little did she know that I also had one for my 16 year old Janome, which had never been used. Well, not properly. I think I fastened it on once but never got any further than that!
So she set about moving the hoop around – she had some wash away film fitted to a regular embroidery hoop – and in no time at all made this!! She used embroidery thread and kept adding tiny scraps of fabric as she went. How clever!
Once finished the piece was soaked and the film dissolved away.
I think it would benefit from a few days between a couple of heavy books, but I was amazing at how easy it was, and you don't need a fancy machine to do it. Just one where you can drop the feed dogs and attached a free hand embroidery foot to.
And as usual Rory, like any other cat, likes to get in on the action.
Tempted to have a go? I am!
Please stop! I can't get those jumpsuits out of my head. I almost bought a new pattern (again) inspite of the fact that really really REALLY I have enough jumpsuits now… Teresa has a lot to answer for!
Wow that's clever and I don't think I've seen an thing like it before. Clever niece! I'm looking forward to seeing your attempt!
Oh my goodness! That looks like so much fun. I am adding this to my must try list.
I agree with Robyn and will add this to my must-do list. Looks like so much fun! Congrats to your niece on her piece – hope she got an A+!
Congratulations to her! If she's not in the midst of exams or some such, why not ask her? Could it count as more of her project?
Don't think I've seen that before! Very talented!
What a fab effect, looks great!
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