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Posted by Stitchin' Duchess on June 8, 2008, 11:12 am
Hello! I'm relatively new to machine embroidery, but I have recently become
obsessed with it.
My DGD has also, but I do all the work. She comes up with the ideas. She has
requested a butterfly bed quilt, which I am to make; the designs have
already been chosen. She wishes to have the quilt patches alternate with
filled and redwork designs. Her final request was that I embroider the
redwork with a thread that is thicker so that it will stand out more.
I hesitate to use cotton because it will fade with washing; however, I've
never seen polyester 30 wt. My other thought is to go over each redwork
design twice so that it pops a bit more. Is that feasible?
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm at a loss as to solve this
one with my little experience.
TIA
Stitchin Duchess
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Posted by Leppurd on June 15, 2008, 5:11 pm
There is foam that is made to embroider over to make it thicker
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:12:09 -0400, "Stitchin' Duchess"
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>Hello! I'm relatively new to machine embroidery, but I have recently become
>obsessed with it.
>My DGD has also, but I do all the work. She comes up with the ideas. She has
>requested a butterfly bed quilt, which I am to make; the designs have
>already been chosen. She wishes to have the quilt patches alternate with
>filled and redwork designs. Her final request was that I embroider the
>redwork with a thread that is thicker so that it will stand out more.
>I hesitate to use cotton because it will fade with washing; however, I've
>never seen polyester 30 wt. My other thought is to go over each redwork
>design twice so that it pops a bit more. Is that feasible?
>Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm at a loss as to solve this
>one with my little experience.
>TIA
>Stitchin Duchess
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Posted by John J. Bengii on June 15, 2008, 10:48 pm
If you can digitize you may be able to load in the redwork and turn the
stitches into a small satin pattern to thicken it.
Try shifting the redwork and restitching in three or four different shift
directions.
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> Hello! I'm relatively new to machine embroidery, but I have recently
> become obsessed with it.
> My DGD has also, but I do all the work. She comes up with the ideas. She
> has requested a butterfly bed quilt, which I am to make; the designs have
> already been chosen. She wishes to have the quilt patches alternate with
> filled and redwork designs. Her final request was that I embroider the
> redwork with a thread that is thicker so that it will stand out more.
> I hesitate to use cotton because it will fade with washing; however, I've
> never seen polyester 30 wt. My other thought is to go over each redwork
> design twice so that it pops a bit more. Is that feasible?
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm at a loss as to solve this
> one with my little experience.
> TIA
> Stitchin Duchess
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>obsessed with it.
>My DGD has also, but I do all the work. She comes up with the ideas. She has
>requested a butterfly bed quilt, which I am to make; the designs have
>already been chosen. She wishes to have the quilt patches alternate with
>filled and redwork designs. Her final request was that I embroider the
>redwork with a thread that is thicker so that it will stand out more.
>I hesitate to use cotton because it will fade with washing; however, I've
>never seen polyester 30 wt. My other thought is to go over each redwork
>design twice so that it pops a bit more. Is that feasible?
>Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm at a loss as to solve this
>one with my little experience.
>TIA
>Stitchin Duchess
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