pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

Finished Gator Supplies : Fat quarter of Sew a Gator!  fabric Stuffing Needle Embroidery Floss Thread Strait pins Scissors  Here's the fat quarter all printed up and beautiful, and the obvious first step is to cut out all the pieces leaving the white borders attached.  Along the top of the gator there are printed guidelines for embroidering. They are white in the photo above, but have since been changed to black. Down the back I used a braided chain stitch , but you can use whatever embroidery stitch you are comfortable with. The website I used for the braided chain stitch has a wonderful stitch library that you can look through. Satin stitch the eyes and use a simple backstitch on the nostrils. I used 4 strands of a light yellow embroidery floss for everything, and 6 strands of black embroidery floss for the pupils. Here's the finished embroidery. Now put the mouth piece face down on top of the embroidered piece, and ...

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This is the front of a sketchbook I recently made using cardboard, fabric, and sketch paper. Here's a closer look at the cover fabric featuring my Unicorn Repeat design.  Here's the back cover. The fabric along the top is my Triangle Check Mint Stripe . And a closer view of the Natural Painted Horses fabric. You can see how the two covers are held together by two rectangles of fabric that act like the spine of a book. Also visible are the folded groups of sketch paper that were sewn together and wrapped in fabric to hide the stitching. The underside of the spine as well as the fabric wrapped around the bound pages is my  Mint Chevron . I used mod podge to glue the bottom of the bound pages to the cover. This made it possible for the front cover to flip behind the pages. Side view open to the first page. The upper pages can simply flip behind like a clipboard to access subsequent pages.