Lisa Klakulak: Free Motion Machine Embroidery on Felt

Lisa Klakulak is a fiber artist who colors, works, felts, beads and stitches fiber, creating wonderful 3-dimensional imagery in her surface design. A brief glimpse from a wonderful 1-hour workshop available on the SDA DVD @ www.surfacedesign.org



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YxUza9zFN0&hl=en

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DIY: Decorative Heart Pillow

This project took me about an hour. Written Directions: You will need: - pencil, eraser - drafting paper - sewing needle - red thread - red satin fabric (half a meter for two pillows) - pins - scissors/rotary tools - seam ripper (just in case, optional) - marking tool - measuring tool - stuffing (I got mine at Walmart) 1. Draw out the heart shape that you'd like. Add your preferred seam allowance with a measuring tool. Make the heart even by drawing and cutting on a fold. 2. Once cut, in your heart pattern on your material well, with the grain line of the material going vertically on the heart. Cut out two pieces. (If you're not using a sewing machine, skip to step 4) 3. Surge or zig-zag stitch the edges of each heart. 4. Pin the two pieces together, right sides together. 5. Use your marking tool to mark about 5in/13cm from the tip of the heart to either side. 6. With the seam allowance you decided to use, stitch around the heart, leaving the gap that you marked open. (If you are hand sewing, you should mark your seam allowance so that you know where to sew. Keep the stitches small and close together.) 7. Clip the seam allowance along the curves of the heart and cut off excess fabric at the tip of the heart before turning it right side out. 8. Iron the edges. 9. Stuff your pillow. 10. Hand sew the gap closed.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GGAYltxOl8&hl=en

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How-to Decopage, Threadbanger Contest Entry

How-to Decopage by Christina. An entry for the 2010 Threadbanger Sewing Machine Contest.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAOEINB9xMA&hl=en

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Silk Painting: Adding Depth & Contrast in Machine Embroidery

DVD Title: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt Alison Holt is a world-class machine embroiderer who has devoted nearly 30 years to creating, teaching and writing books about the art of free-hand Machine Embroidery. In this DVD, we explore creating flowers, foliage and landscapes with Alison as she provides step by step instruction in how to create the magnificent flowers and photo-like landscapes that have made her famous. In "Part Three - Silk Painting - Creating Depth and Contrast" she explains how heat-set silk paints are first applied to the fabric to create a colorful and abstract foundation prior to sewing machine embroidering. It is what has made Alison famous as an artist and author of several books on the subject.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCravDPtwY&hl=en

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Trapunto

Quilted Joy shows how a machine trapunto effect takes place on an APQS longarm.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqP3rY63sxU&hl=en

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