Last weekend I went to a WAC workshop with Linda Schmidt. Among the many embellishment techniques she taught was painting on fusible web then fusing it to your fabric and layering with foil.
I had some microwave dyed silk charmuse the was boring so I used this technique on it and did the shiny silvery leaves. I used "Wonder Under" painted it with some pearlized Jacquard fabric paint. I found that I needed to peel the web off of the backing and fuse it to the fabric with the unpainted side on the fabric and a sheet of parchment paper over the web. Perfect results! Then I placed the foil on top and ironed again with parchment paper covering the work. After it was done I went further.
I did another technique Linda taught; which I already knew, but had not used in quite this way, of stitching scraps together encased in two layers of Sulky Solvy. I cut small confetti scraps and included a few bits of the painted web that was left over from the leaves and with a layer of Solvy on the bottom and another on the top I ironed them together, put it in a hoop and free motion stitched with metallic thread in the needle and matching color rayon in the bobbin. THen I cut out the leaves and put them in warm water and washed away the Solvy. THe 3-D leaves were then stitched to the garment. I also added some silver gutta line work.
I will bring this to class on Wednesday and show you the steps.
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