lmbembroidery: Chapter 5 Fabric Selection and Decoration

Selecting fabrics

It's amazing how and where you obtain fabric samples! Some I already had, others were from charity shops.

The following include both turquoise and reddy orange separately displayed
1. Selection of fabrics and threads in turquoise, with some different hints and shades
2. Selection of fabrics and threads in reddy orange and some colours close to it for variety

Decorating fabrics

When decorating the fabrics I used four different print blocks:
Two originally used for printing papers in Chapter 2.
I've now added a handle to each, which has sadly lost the thumb prints!
Two new ones I made using an eraser, placing a different design on each side, one part of a cross the other a cross in its own right.

The acrylic paints used were turquoise, gold metallic and a red metallic mixed with gold.
I have noted that in the future a fabric medium should be used. It was not used this time.

Here follow Working Sheets, two for each colour fabric, preceded with scans of four A4 pieces of fabric which I particularly liked:

1. Turquoise acrylic on turquoise rayon/linen, where there are four copies of the part cross rotated by 90 degrees in a block alongside the next set of four
See also 8. Working Sheet 2 on turquoise

2. Red/gold metallic mix as 1 with a different cross
See also 7. Working Sheet 1 on turquoise

With both 1 and 2 I like the designs made at the centre of each block

3. Not sure of this fabric but it was quite fine cottony texture on which were printed a cross at an angle, roughly equally spaced and in mixed colours