Water Soluble Stabilizer

Fun with the Flower Stitch Foot

05 Nov | Posted in Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Flower Stitch FootI love playing with the flower stitch foot. If you’ve never used this foot, I can guarantee it is way too much fun. But did you know that you can use this foot with water soluble stabilizer to create all sorts of decorative effects?

The Flower Stitch Foot is only available for machines with a low shank and as you can see from the photo, the foot is bulky so attachments that are already fitted to your machine such as an inbuilt even feed foot, may cause problems when trying to attach the foot.

Although traditionally used for creating small circles on fabric for decorative use, the Flower Stitch Foot can also be used with water soluble stabilizer to create great fringes and dangly things.

Flower Stitch Foot

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“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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Making Fabric Using Water Soluble Stabilizer

15 Jul | Posted in Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Making Fabric Using Water Soluble Stabilizer

I love to use water soluble stabilizer for making embellishments, and fabric pieces, and other unusual textural elements for my quilts.

Making fabric pieces is very easy; all you need to get started is some thick water soluble stabilizer, and some yarn or decorative threads.

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Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”: In Circles

15 Jun | Posted in Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Decorative Stitch Art LaceIn an earlier tutorial I showed you how to make “Decorative Stitch Art Lace” using the decorative stitches on your sewing machine and water soluble stabilizer. “Decorative Stitch Art Lace” has an irregular shape and a contemporary appearance and can be used in art quilts as focus or background pieces.

This tutorial explains how to make this lace using the circular sewing attachment.

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Decorative Stitch “Art” Lace

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

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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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Needle-lace Heart Project

10 Feb | Posted in Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM

Learn how easy it is to make “see-through” designs for your art quilts with this free pattern and design.

Stitch one or two rows of straight stitch to stabilize the design.

Needlelace

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