Mittens part 4
Silk embroidery.
First I had the idea to only use couching of the outlines of the embroidery pattern as decoration of the mittens, but since I have quite a lot of silk thread lying around that I haven’t been using, I decided to fill out the whole pattern to add more colour.
I’m trying split stitch for the first time ever. Very fun actually and gives a surface with a lot of life in it.
This means it will take a day or two longer before I get to the process of sewing the mittens together, but it’s going to be worth it.
As you can see I sew the outlines straight through the paper and then removed it afterwards. Small tip: Don’t use office paper like I did. Baking paper or similar is a lot easier to peel off afterwards.
Veronica is the founder of Hyperbrain.me. With one foot in the past and one in the future she takes inspiration from older aesthetics and ideas to apply them in updated form today. She is passionate about teaching timeless skills and believes that the world needs more polymaths.
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