Wednesday, August 2, 2017

ICQC 105: Ribbon Embroidery

I have signed up for Kathy Shaw's silk ribbon embroidery class.  Kathy offers a bunch of free online classes of crazy quilting techniques.  My crazy quilting blocks stalled out in February of 2016, and I really haven't touched them since.  This class has me interested again in working on them.

Our first task was the basic stitches.




Then we moved on to the flowers.



I love the look of ribbon flowers, but my technique could use a lot of work!  I have a hard time pulling the ribbon through the fabric, even when I make a hole with a large needle before hand.  I also waste a lot of ribbon even though I am using the recommended 18" lengths of ribbon.  The ribbon wears with every pass through the fabric and gets limp so that the stitches don't hold their shapes well.  I spend a lot of time fluffing and straightening the ribbon.  I am trying to be patient with myself because I know it will get easier as I get more practice.


Linking up: http://www.supermomnocape.com/vintage-embroidery-monday-stitchery-link-party-121/

https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2017/08/lets-bee-social-188.html

2 comments:

Scooquilt said...

I think your flowers look really nice! I've always wanted to learn ribbon embroidery.

SuperMomNoCape said...

Your flowers turned out really well. I think they look pretty. I've done a bit of ribbon embroidery so I know how hard it can be to pull it through fabric.

Thanks so much for linking up to last week's Stitchery Link Party and for the link back. Aloha hugs!