This week I have been working on some embroidery on clothing. The fabric is a fine knit, which means it is a little stretchy. I figured that it would be best to stabilise the fabric before stitching on it, so that it didn’t pull out of shape during the embroidery.<\/p>\n
The fabric is a mid grey, and when I tried to trace the pattern on to the fabric using dressmakers carbon, nothing found its way onto the fabric at all, probably because of the slightly fluffy knit weave. Not very helpful.<\/p>\n
Then I remembered that strange product called Solvy, which is a water-soluble fabric. I wondered if I could trace the pattern onto it, and tack it on, thereby also stabilising the fabric during stitching. So off I went to my local needlework shop in search of some. <\/p>\n
They had two types of water-soluble fabric. One was the Solvy, which is a little like a cross between cling wrap and waxed paper lunch wrap – neither of which I would like to stitch through! But they also had another one (I must find out what its called) which was more like a thin non-woven interfacing. I decided that I would use that one.<\/p>\n
So I traced the pattern onto the water-soluble fabric then tacked it onto the fabric in the position that I needed it. I worked all the stitching, then came the moment of truth. (I did wonder if it was going to work!)<\/p>\n
I filled the sink with a little cold water, and lay the embroidery face down in it. I wasn’t sure how much effort it would take to get it to dissolve, so I wet it well, and then waited. Within a couple of minutes, all the water-soluble fabric was gone. It really took very little effort from me at all. I thought I might have needed to slightly rub it or agitate the water, but no, I didn’t need to at all.<\/p>\n
I’ve never used anything like it, but it worked really well. It made it extremely easy to apply the pattern, and also stabilised the fabric. I’ll certainly be using it again.<\/p>\n
Now I just have to find out what it is called!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I have been working on some embroidery on clothing. The fabric is a fine knit, which means it is a little stretchy. I figured that it would be best to stabilise the fabric before stitching on it, so that it didn’t pull out of shape during the embroidery.<\/p>\n
The fabric is a mid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}