Wednesday 23 May 2012

Some Free Motion Embroidered Fern Fronds.

 I was going to digitize some fern fronds, but then realised that it would probably be quicker just to do them 'free-hand' as it were.  I started out thinking that I would need a grid, but found it worked just as well without. I have 2 layers of water dissolvable backing fabric put into a small frame of cardboard with sticky tape. I find this works very well with small motifs.
 Here I have worked different 4 fern fronds, cut away the excess backing fabric and pinned them onto a sheet of Styrofoam for washing out.
               I'm quite pleased with these, but I need more, including a couple of brown (dead) ones.

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