Projects

Friday, October 23, 2015

Planning cobalt dress

I've been thinking about making a dress out of chiffon fabric with embroidery on top and have decided on cobalt blue with monotone embroidery. Step one is to design the embroidery.

I am leaning strongly towards adapting the designs in these two sets:

set 1

set 2

So here are my first options on drawing a few lines on something that I own which has similar lines to what I am thinking about making:

Version 1: The neck would be v-neck symmetrical and likely follow the pattern I buy. The embroidery line starts in the back and would be over the left shoulder.

You have to ignore version one's line. I didn't want to erase it in case I go with it. This would have embroidery in the front middle and then follow the line from about the left waist to the r side. It would have no embroidery on the back but could have embroidery on the sleeve.

(I haven't figured out the sleeve yet but am very likely to have some kind of sleeve--I hate sleeveless, and I hate being cold.)

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Eastern European Designs

Machine embroidery from emblibrary.com.

Lace a combination of needle lace and needle tatting

A more traditional Bulgarian needle lace

Apron adapted from vintage apron (see next post) Red machine embroidery on white fabric with rick rack around the edge.

Embroidery on skirt portion is inside pocket.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Vintage Apron

I picked this vintage hand-embroidered apron up at an estate sale.It's two layers with the pockets cut out of the top layer. The edge is rick-rack. The words at the top say "Portugal". I've adapted it and will post my re-creation at a later date.