Embroidered Treasures - WOYWW 336

This week my desk is the small table in the conservatory where I like to sit and hand sew whilst listening to music. Here I am making some more little 'caskets' made using the free pattern from a Quilting Daily project - the freebie link here The flowery knitting on the hessian is part of a group project that is slowly being put together and the messy bits on the floor is drawing stuff such as charcoal because it is right next to my standing easel.

Having loads of disperse dyes (heat transfer inks) leftover from my teaching days I decided to make some inked papers to colour man-made fabrics that would  normally probably end up in the trash - scraps of lace and old net curtaining. I then laid some of the coloured fabrics onto a base fabric and stitched them down, using those set patterns on the sewing machine that you very rarely use, and then bonded the result to some heavy vilene.

The pattern for the 'treasure' was cut from some wax coated freezer paper which I ironed onto the fabric (easily peeled off when you're done), cut out the shape and machine zig-zagged the outer edges. Add a bit of couching and beads and your done. I enlarged the pattern to do a few different sizes. I just need to add a bit more stitching and beads to the latest and cut through the button hole opening. Now I'm off to what other folk have been doing.

Jackie