free motion embroidery

Thread painting with DecoBob

Finishing up my Caran d’Ache Neocolor 2 Water Soluble Wax Pastels Tulip To paint my tulip, I traced the photo onto PFD (prepared for dying) white cotton fabric and then used the wax pastels to shade in the different colors. Once finished, I used a paintbrush to paint water onto…

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Thread painting with Tutti and Konfetti

Ready…Set…Go! We are finally ready to get stitching. As I mentioned on Monday, when you are thread painting (or doing free motion embroidery – both terms are used) you can either stitch with a zig zag or a straight stitch. If you can NOT drop your feed dogs and have…

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Let’s get ready for some thread painting!

Getting prepared Yesterday we learned a bit about thread painting and previewed some fabrics to use with the Tutti and Konfetti threads from WonderFil. Today we’re going to assemble the rest of the supplies we need and get our sewing machines ready to do some thread painting. What do we…

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Playing with Tutti and Konfetti Threads

The threads have arrived I’m so excited about the new threads I got from WonderFil – Tutti and Konfetti. I love their zany names, do you? The colors remind me of ice cream and candy of all sorts of flavors! I can’t wait to play with these on my sewing…

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