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koshka_the_cat gave an impromptu tambour embroidery class and I casually mentioned how fun it would be to learn them promptly forgot. Fast forward till Christmas and Rob surprised me with a kit consisting of the hoop you need and the hooks. yay! I promptly annoyed Katherine with a million questions and then practiced on a piece of muslin with some perle cotton thread just to get the basic rhythm down.
On Tuesday night (weirdest night ever) the Museum of the American Revolution is having an after hours thing and the usual suspects and I are going. (we'll pretend I don't have a 5am wakeup call on wednesday. what I miss seeing my friends) and it's supposed to be negative 40 degrees so I thought it was a good moment to finally make some silk mitts...and were there any examples with tambour embroidery?
(sold but agusta auctions)
hey check that out! granted they're on muslin but close enough for my purposes. so I pulled out some muslin and started fucking around with a pattern. The first mock up I did I centered the thumb hole on the fold line and then realized it has to go off center as more of you thumb is on the palm side, kind of like more of your arm is on the front bodice than the back.
Then I traced my pattern on paper and kinda drew something similar to the above embroidery, clearly that one was just free-handed onto the mitts as they'e not the same and not symmetrical so I went with a loose approach.
I got one full mitt embroidered today and started the second. I'd like to finish the embroidery over the next three days after work. Which probably means I won't do any.
koshka_the_cat gave an impromptu tambour embroidery class and I casually mentioned how fun it would be to learn them promptly forgot. Fast forward till Christmas and Rob surprised me with a kit consisting of the hoop you need and the hooks. yay! I promptly annoyed Katherine with a million questions and then practiced on a piece of muslin with some perle cotton thread just to get the basic rhythm down. On Tuesday night (weirdest night ever) the Museum of the American Revolution is having an after hours thing and the usual suspects and I are going. (we'll pretend I don't have a 5am wakeup call on wednesday. what I miss seeing my friends) and it's supposed to be negative 40 degrees so I thought it was a good moment to finally make some silk mitts...and were there any examples with tambour embroidery?
(sold but agusta auctions)
hey check that out! granted they're on muslin but close enough for my purposes. so I pulled out some muslin and started fucking around with a pattern. The first mock up I did I centered the thumb hole on the fold line and then realized it has to go off center as more of you thumb is on the palm side, kind of like more of your arm is on the front bodice than the back.
Then I traced my pattern on paper and kinda drew something similar to the above embroidery, clearly that one was just free-handed onto the mitts as they'e not the same and not symmetrical so I went with a loose approach.
I got one full mitt embroidered today and started the second. I'd like to finish the embroidery over the next three days after work. Which probably means I won't do any.
