{"id":4114,"date":"2011-11-18T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2011-11-18T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:35:49","slug":"damp-stretching-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/11\/18\/damp-stretching-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"damp stretching setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally finished all the hemming yesterday. <\/p>\n

I’ve now got the tablecloth soaking in a bucket so that I can carefully go around the whole thing and remove the wash out pencil marks. I’ve found that unfortunately, due to the density of the bullion stitches, the wash out pencil marks don’t simply disappear in water. I need to give the fabric a tiny (and I do mean tiny – there’s no scrubbing here!) rub with my finger nail. It makes it very time consuming to go around checking every stitch on the whole tablecloth, but when I’ve already spent *so many* hours working on it, I’m not skimping at this stage either!<\/p>\n

The runner that I hemstitched on Wednesday was damp stretched yesterday, and I left it sitting like that overnight to make sure it was fully dry before removing the pins. Damp stretching makes such a good result. Full instructions will be included in the book, so that you can use this wonderful technique to have your embroidery looking “just so”.<\/p>\n

I thought you might like to see the setup I used for the damp stretching yesterday.
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\nUnderneath the embroidery are my spongy mats into which I pin. I have used normal dressmaking pins, and lots of them! Around the edges are 4 cartons of my books which are holding down the edges of the spongy mats, to stop them from curling up under the tension of the fabric. <\/p>\n

I could use anything heavy, really, but I’ve got lots of book cartons just lying around and they’re definitely nice and heavy! Having them that large around the edges does impede the airflow and probably slows down the drying a bit, but that’s a price that’s worth paying if it means it will give a good result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally finished all the hemming yesterday. <\/p>\n

I’ve now got the tablecloth soaking in a bucket so that I can carefully go around the whole thing and remove the wash out pencil marks. I’ve found that unfortunately, due to the density of the bullion stitches, the wash out pencil marks don’t simply disappear in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}