I learned things which I really already knew. Quite important, if you want good satin stitch, use a good quality fine embroidery thread! This bowl had a vilene product as it's base, it looks like pelmet vilene but is soft, more like felt. Tina calls it fat vilene, I will try to find out what it really is called. In the meantime everyone at Stitchcraft is buying 'fat vilene'. The bowl was a bit floppy even with two layers of bondaweb, so I also added medium weight iron on interfacing. It is nice and tactile but has body. I will be teaching how to make this bowl on 13th September if you are in the area :)
Today I made a huge purchase. I bought ..... 3 half yards of GREEN cotton fabric. I feel quite ill but if I am going to be making flower bowls I do need it. I also got a reel of the same colour aurifil thread. I will be having nightmares tonight. Murphy got new squeaky balls, I am getting a headache already and I have only been in for 10 minutes :)
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Nothing wrong with a bit of green IMHO :). Sorry I missed you, been in bed with a lurgy all day :(
The bowl looks very pretty. I will be away yet again when you do your workshop.
The fat vilene is vilene S13
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