Doing some testing

Here is one of Ann Donahue’s fantastic designs. At least part of one! I am doing some test stitch outs. Just wanted to show how I handle that. I prepared this glitter velvet by using a 100% cotton iron on interfacing. Then I hooped some sticky back stabilizer and laid the velvet onto that. Under the hoop I used some medium wt. tear away, and on top of the fabric I laid some water soluble stabilizer. All this to keep the thread from sinking into the velvet. That was what was present for the right side of the design.

I’ve used the glitter velvet before, so suspected I would need yet one more layer to make this stitch out work. That did prove to be the case! The right side of the design was subject to shredding thread, thin coverage, and lines not quite lining up. For the second side, I added the miracle layer…Waxed Paper! Thus I achieved the beautiful result of the left side. I was able to lay the waxed paper right on top of the fabric, it came up leaving no little bits to pick off. Just lovely!

Now of course my lame picture does not show all of this in such great detail, so I’ll try to take a better one and add it to the post shortly.

Here is a better one….