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What can you make with those scrap threads which you can collect after every piece of work on your embroidery machine or sewing machine? I sat down and thougt about it. Here is what came up in my imagination.
This is what you'll need:
- An embroidable piece of clothing.
- A load of scrap threads.
- Firm Plastic (you may use the watersoluble embroidery stablilizer, but the plastic is cheaper and worked fine by me)
-Your embroidering machine, embroidery yarn, stabilizer and of course the patterns.
I worked this way :
Place the fabric in the hoop at your favorite way. And put the hoop in place on your embroidery machine.
Embroider the first step. I digitized it in a different color, because of the stops the machine has to make to finish the 'artwork'.
You may use the same color in the whole pattern.
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Place the scrap threads on the fabric, in the first step. It doesn't matter that the scrap threads are over that embroidered line. It will be just the beauty of the 'artwork' when the scrap threads aren't exactly within that first line.
Put the plastic over the scrap threads. It will keep the threads in place while embroidering. After the whole pattern is embroidered, you have to pick the little pieces of plastic out of the way.
Embroider the next steps. You will notice that the stitches put the scrap threads down to the fabric.
When you finished embroidering, you have to take the hoop of the machine, and pick the plastic pieces out of the way. Take the fabric out of the hoop and cut or tear of the stabilizer.
When that is finished you may touch up the threads, or let them be in the way they are.
This is the way my piece of embroidery looks like:
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Have much fun with those patterns.