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Post by lindsay on Apr 19, 2018 8:05:57 GMT
What lovely colours and texture! It's definitely sea. If it needs stitching you'll be able to hide the stitches within the ruching. Thank you, Lyn. So would you try lightly felting it in & stitch it if need be or would you make the piece first and stitch this on afterwards?
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Post by lyn on Apr 19, 2018 8:42:39 GMT
I would cut off a small piece of the ruched nuno then try to felt it into a small sample of fibres as if you were making the piece proper. Maybe 'rough up' the reverse side of the nuno to give the fibres something to latch onto?
If it falls off or doesn't adhere well enough - then it will have to be some anchoring stitches.
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Post by lindsay on Apr 19, 2018 9:04:11 GMT
I would cut off a small piece of the ruched nuno then try to felt it into a small sample of fibres as if you were making the piece proper. Maybe 'rough up' the reverse side of the nuno to give the fibres something to latch onto? If it falls off or doesn't adhere well enough - then it will have to be some anchoring stitches. Thanks, Lyn of course, the answer is make a sample! 😀
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Post by MTRuth on Apr 19, 2018 16:07:44 GMT
Lovely piece of nuno felt Lindsay. And isn't "make a sample" always the answer? Looking forward to seeing the finished piece.
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Post by Shepherdess on Apr 19, 2018 16:50:41 GMT
I was going to suggest roughing up the back of the nuno and the top of the prefelt where you are putting it but Lyn beat me to it. I am terrible about not doing samples.
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Post by koffipot on Apr 19, 2018 18:28:12 GMT
Lovely sea effect. I love the ruched texture.
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Post by Pandagirl on Apr 20, 2018 3:52:06 GMT
The pewter side reminds me of looking at granite striatiins or tiles. Nice work.
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Post by pamster on May 30, 2018 5:28:31 GMT
I love the challenges and decided this was one I might be able to manage. Since I have a new 'ideas' notebook I thought I would nuno felt a cover for this book. Here is the flat felt, ready to be sewn up for the book but if you look closely you can see a small orange area that has not felted at all, even though the other half of this piece has attached.
Any ideas why this would happen? What should I do - just tear it off?
Thanks Pam
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Post by lyn on May 30, 2018 8:20:52 GMT
It's lovely Pam - scrummy colours and textures! I would be tempted to add a few simple hand stitches (running/cross) with embroidery silk in some places - one of the places being the stubborn piece of orange!
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Post by tracey on May 30, 2018 14:38:16 GMT
Lovely Pam! Before I read Lyn's post I thought yeah - tear it off! but in hindsight I like the fix it rather than destroy it attitude.
My very first piece at my first class was an abstract piece. I wasn't keen on it afterwards so I started to pull the lovely embellishments off to use on something else. My friend saw this and was horrified, saying - stop killing it!! I went on to love it and it is now on my wall!
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Post by Pandagirl on May 30, 2018 18:00:46 GMT
Beautiful Pam. Love the colors. I wouldn’t tear off the piece you could stitch like Lyn suggests or try needlefelting it in. But I think it needs to stay. It all looks very balanced now. I look forward to seeing the finished cover. Have fun!
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Post by MTRuth on May 30, 2018 19:06:04 GMT
Lovely! I have found that nuno is like that sometimes, everything sticks but one area. Not sure how you're felting but if you use bubble wrap and some of the bubbles are flattened, that portion of the nuno won't felt in like the others. Or you didn't rub as much in that area if that's how you're felting.
Anyways, I love Lyn's idea of adding hand stitching. Running or straight stitches are easy and will add another design element, line.
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Post by lindsay on May 30, 2018 21:14:35 GMT
I can only agree with the others - attach it. I’d needle felt it as I’d want to make it behave as I’d intended but can see stitching would work and add something different.
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Post by pamster on May 30, 2018 21:16:28 GMT
Thanks everyone, I think that contrary piece gets to stay Embroidery and I are not friends so I'll see how it goes.
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Post by lyn on May 30, 2018 22:06:34 GMT
Be brave Pam - simple stitches are very effective, and they don't have to be perfectly neat. In fact a little wonkiness in the stitches is very effective on felt.
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