![]() If you’d like to follow along with Late Harvest from the first stitches until now, you can find all the articles relating to this project in the Late Harvest Project Index, listed chronologically. But I’m pretty confident the corners will work out ok on the larger version of the leaf.Īnd now, onto the second half! More Late Harvest I found it a little tricky on this particular leaf, when snipping in the tiny little angles. use Really Sharp Tiny Scissors for this part of the job, and 2. I think it came out ok, but there’s still room for improvement. I practiced a bit of cutting on the Mistake Leaves. I’ll leave the rest of the stumpwork pieces together on the fabric until I’m ready to actually put them on the whole embroidery piece. I decided to cut out the chunk of three leaves that I had to redo ( I wrote about that kerfuffle here), because the size was wrong. That’s ok – it dries clear.Īnd here’s the fine brush tip making its way around the outside of a stumpwork leaf.Īfter the Fray Stop dried, you know I had to cut out at least one stumpwork piece. Here’s the pen reservoir filled with the Fray Stop. I love these! I use them for watercolor pencils primarily, but they’ve come in handy over and over again for other times when I need to get a tiny bit of liquid into a tight spot. You fill the squeezable pen reservoir with whatever liquid you’re using, and then you use the pen like a fine brush. …better yet, how about an Aqua Brush? These are water pens with brush tips, that Pentel sells for working with water color pencils, inks, and dyes. Now I know what happens to ten-year-old Fray Check.īut I did have this Fray Stop on hand, which is the same concept, only it tends to dry softer than Fray Check.īut … how to control the flow? That was my question. I didn’t have any of the original Fray Check on hand. Tricky, around those little pieces of stumpwork! The idea here is to paint the fabric outside the wire with the Fray Check, allowing it to seep only so far as the wired outline. But controlling the flow on Fray Check or any similarly bottled substance can be difficult. It comes in a tiny little squeeze bottle with a pointed tip to the cap. Better to have them done and ready to go!īefore cutting out the stumpwork pieces from the fabric, Hazel suggests outlining them carefully with Fray Check, which is a liquid fray stopper sold widely in sewing stores.įray Check is a clear liquid, and it dries clear and a little stiffish. Once the second half of the main design is completely stitched, I’m going to be dying to affix the stumpwork pieces to it. ![]() The main reason I decided to get the stumpwork pieces completely finished was because I know myself pretty well. ![]() ![]() Instead, it’s a combination of surface embroidery techniques, including regular surface embroidery with floss, bead embroidery, and stumpwork embroidery, which is a three-dimensional embroidery technique.Īfter completing the first half of the main design, I decided to devote my stitching time to finishing the stumpwork pieces before venturing on to the second half. The embroidery isn’t “crewel” embroidery, technically, despite the name of the book. I’m working it from the kit, which I reviewed here. Today, I’ll show you the stumpwork pieces and share a couple handy tips that might help you on your own embroidery projects.įor those of you who are just joining us on Needle ‘n Thread, Late Harvest is an embroidery project from Hazel Blomkamp’s book, Crewel Intentions, which I’ve reviewed here. The stumpwork elements for Late Harvest are all stitched up and ready to go! Not that they have anywhere to go yet – I still have to finish the left half of the main part of the project.īut it’s always nice to accomplish a minor goal, isn’t it? ![]()
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