Thursday 23 January 2014

free motion embroidery cards

Christmas Thank You cards were a little overdue, so I spent last weekend making some.
I used free motion embroidery on card in a bird design.
For this you need a free motion foot for your sewing machine, which essentially allows you to sew in any direction, using the needle like a pen. You put the feed dogs on the machine down, which allows you to manually move the fabric around.
It works ok on card, obviously not as well as on fabric, but I think it makes a more unusual card.
Here they are:




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