| Ribbon Applique, Part 1 |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-134 |
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Ribbon expert and designer Wendy Grande explains how to make ribbon from strips of silk cloth and how to create beautiful appliqui flowers that can be stitched on everything from quilts to vests. Materials:
Silk fabric
Yellow silk ribbon
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Avery. self-adhesive dots
Cotton, linen or other appliqui fabric to practice with
- Make your own silk strips by tearing them from a length of silk fabric. To start the strips, make small cuts with scissors along the edge of the fabric the desired width of the strips. Pull each strip, and tear along the length of the fabric. On average, you can get about 15 yards of strips from $5 worth of fabric.
- Use a tapestry needle with a large eye to thread the strips through.
- Heavy fabric is the best material for appliqui. Any light material with a backing is also suitable.
- Stick five Avery. self-adhesive dots in a circle on a practice piece of linen or cotton fabric, with the edges of the dots overlapping slightly. This provides a practice guide for stitching silk flowers (figure A).
- Thread a tapestry needle with a strip of silk. Bring the needle from the back of the fabric up through the center of the circle of dots (figure B).
- Go down through the fabric at the top of one of the dots. Come up through the center again (figure C).
- Go down through the fabric at the top of an adjacent dot and back up through the center. Continue until all the petals of the flower have been made.
- For the center of the flower, make a lazy-daisy stitch, using yellow silk ribbon. Bring the ribbon up from the back in the center of the flower, go down in the center of the flower, and hold the ribbon in a loop away from the fabric. Come up in the center of the loop, and cross over the loop. Go down in the center of the flower. Consult an embroidery stitching guide for additional stitches (figure D).
- To make leaves, use green silk strips. Start from the back of the fabric, come up to the front, and go back down through the center of the strip. The strip will fold back on itself, forming a leaf (figure E) (figure F).
RESOURCES :
Wendy Grande
Grande Designs
Aptos, CA 95003
Phone: 831-688-8351
Fax: 925-609-2527
Email: wwgrande@cruzio.com
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