Decorative Stitches

“Decorative Stitch Art Lace” Book Wrap

18 Oct | Posted in Decorative Stitches, Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Book Wrap

Book Wraps are great projects to make either for yourself or to give as gifts. They are easy to make and offer the perfect opportunity to express your creative self through your use of embellishment.

This project demonstrates a technique for making fabric using Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”, and then using the resulting fabric to make a Book Wrap.

Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” is made by sewing overlapping rows of decorative stitches onto a piece of water soluble stabilizer. The soft lace pieces are intended to appear haphazardly sewn with stitches gently falling away to reveal irregular shaped holes and stitch clusters, adding a very contemporary appearance to your projects.

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Decorative Stitch “Art” Lace

06 Jun | Posted in Decorative Stitches, Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Introduction

Water Soluble Stabilizer Lace

Water soluble stabilizer offers great opportunities for art quilters to get very creative. Decorative lacework, needle-lace, lace inserts, embellishments—the possibilities are endless!

Combining water soluble stabilizer and the decorative stitches on your sewing machine is a creative way to make “art lace” which is lace with irregular shape and a contemporary appearance. This type of “art lace” can be used in art quilts as focus or background pieces.

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