MINDFUL SEWING
This book is amazing! It is full of projects that use sewing as a support for mental health.
2. I used the internet to find some outlines of safari animals, printed them out and traced the outline of the animal on to the fabric. I then added my own internal lines to split up the animal. A heat removing or water removing fabric pen would be great here. At the end you can remove any visible pen marks using water or a warm iron close to the fabric.
4. Once all the outlines were in place, I joined the lines using lots of zig-zag sewing. I didn't want uniform lines, I wanted some wider apart than others and more triangular shapes than rectangular.
I loved these 2 projects with their intricate designs and animal themes. I used them to influence my own project.
1. You will need some base fabric, an embroidery hoop, needle, heat removing pen and some thread. I didn't buy any special fabric, I just used something I already had for this first practice piece. I wanted a small image with lots of detail so used cotton thread rather than embroidery thread.
2. I used the internet to find some outlines of safari animals, printed them out and traced the outline of the animal on to the fabric. I then added my own internal lines to split up the animal. A heat removing or water removing fabric pen would be great here. At the end you can remove any visible pen marks using water or a warm iron close to the fabric.
3. I put the fabric into the embroidery hoop, pulling around the edges to ensure it was tight enough to sew. I used the thread to sew all the outlines that I had drawn, using a back stitch to create solid lines.
4. Once all the outlines were in place, I joined the lines using lots of zig-zag sewing. I didn't want uniform lines, I wanted some wider apart than others and more triangular shapes than rectangular.
5. Once all the lines were joined, the animal was complete. At this point you could add beads or buttons to the image.
This is the elephant. For a first attempt I'm pretty pleased. I cut out the elephant from the pink fabric and attached it to a circle with pompoms and made it into a keyring.
There are always lessons to be learnt - a slightly wider thread might have made a more distinct pattern like the ones from the book above and a better drawing of an elephant. The eye area is a bit odd!
Other examples of embroidered animals:
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