I cried for you when you got to the interfacing!! 😭😭😭Ahhh there is such a thing as water soluble interfacing. It will wash away really easily with warm water. Oh well you live and learn.❤️❤️❤️
Yeah, I considered water soluble, but I get so nervous about getting my embroidery wet... in retrospect, I'll have to wash the skirt after wearing it anyway, so I should have given it a try!
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I love avoiding mistakes by watching someone else make them (apologies), so seeing you have the “a-ha” moment was golden. I think I have printable interfacing so I will see if it is sheer enough to trace through to avoid one additional step. Love the pockets on your skirt. Thanks for fast forwarding to the finished skirt, waiting for the next video would have been frustrating.
@@gettheetothestitchery At my age the fewer mistakes the better. My addiction is Alice in Wonderland. I will have to mix Jacobean embroidery with original Alice illustrations so I can embroider all over my stuff! I saw yours is Beauty and the Beast.
@@cerwelt Oooo I love that idea! The illustrations from Alice in Wonderland are so good for stitching - it'll be awesome to combine that with crewel work!
Update: I just learned that Sulky has a product that is designed to be used for hand embroidery, cross stitch, punch needle quilting ... and even pumpkin carving. You can copy, print or draw the design on one side. You then peel the 2nd side, which is sticky and put it on the front of the fabric. After stitching it washes away. It's called Stick'n Stitch and it's also marketed under 2 other names (but they are all exactly the same): Sticky Fabri-Solvy, and Stick 'n Carve. I hope this helps the next time you have a complicated design you want to have on the front of the fabric.
Yeah, I've used a couple different forms of interfacing on a few projects. I'm not the hugest fan of the sticky wash-away kinds just because they are really thick to stitch through and it changes the feel and experience of the stitching itself (like you can feel the stickiness of the back of the interfacing as you slide your needle through). When there's no other option for transferring your pattern though, they can be a lifesaver!
There's a thin layer of wash-away pellon interfacing that doesn't have a sticky feel. feels like a layer of organza. You can draw on it with sharpie or wash-away pen. I use it for hand embroidery on mesh. Easy.
Interesting, wool embroidery is common in traditional swedish clothes and textile work. Most often the fabric used was also wool, it is called 'påsöm' which literaly translates to 'on-sewing' and I find it very neat. Your kind-of-crewel embroidery is very very beautiful
Hey I know i am a bit late to this, but as I saw you struggle getting your pattern on the fabric i had an idea. You could’ve used a beamer or something of this sort to projects the image onto the fabric and use a marker to draw it on. I normally use pens that erase with heat appliance and when ironing your fabric the traces will move away. Thats how i do has allways worked.
Just like in history bounding- you have some that go for historically ACCURATE, and others that go for historically INSPIRED. Slight differences do make a difference, but the outcome is always the work of art. You have a very lovely historically inspired piece right there, and I LOVE it!! Do you?
Lol when I started to learn crewel work I thought it was about the stitch😹😹😹 the woman who was working on hers at the time when I decided this was very helpful, that’s when I found out it’s name is not the stitch but the wool that you use, I must of given her a funny look and so she pulled out some hanks and all the labels for the wool was “Crewel” 😹😹😹that’s when it clicked for me I had only used wool for tapestries never for embroidery work. For most fabrics I work with I would have to use such short runs of the wool just so it would not fray, and as I already knew 80% of the embroidery stitch’s I felt I already knew how to crewel work after all🙄🙄sigh. For 20 plus years I thought it was a special stitch talk about a flat moment of my life. In all my books that I have bought to teach myself embroidery work non of them ever mention that crewel work was actually working with wool.😹😹😹 You were close with the pronunciation, 😹😹 you would love the Welsh castle Powis I went there as a teenager on one of our many trips to Wales when we lived in the UK. I loved the design on the finished skirt and that’s how I got here lol. Three little words that I found to be magical. “Wash-A-Way” best invention for machine embroidery which works just as well for hand embroidery too. As it’s expensive I only use a piece big enough to place the design onto it and put stay stitching around the edge of the “Wash-A-Way” once the project or garment is finished I pop it into a warm wash and then dry and all the Wash-A-Way is gone. It’s the bee’s knees for working with any fabric that I’m not able to use with a light box. I do love your method that you did use in the end it worked well👍🏽👍🏽so I will keep that idea squirrelled away for sure. I have been enjoying your videos lots of laughs mixed with drama 😹😹😹
I do love the look of this skirt project and I'm sorry it ended up not fitting right 😢 For any future similar projects, would you consider applique? Embroider the design on one piece of fabric, then applique it onto the project itself. I was thinking that you could then just remove the applique and repurpose it somewhere else if the final product it was put on didn't work out again. Although I guess that would depend on how you attach it 🤔
An option/experiment to use the wool yard on this skirt could have been more loose woven fabric that was embroidered and then appliqued onto the tight woven skirt. Good chance it would turn out superb with attachment via the sewing machine
Poke pin holes all along the design. Place it over your fabric and then make a pouncing bag with cheesecloth and add some dark powdered tailors chalk ( will show up better on your pale fabric but you could get away with white). Then pounce away. Carefully lift the pattern piece and you will have a lot of little dots outlining the pattern in chalk. You then can join them with tailors chalk or a heat erasable pen.
Could you not reverse the design on the computer, and print it onto transfer paper that you could then iron onto the fabric? And zigzag or overlock the fabric edges before stitching? The skirt turned out lovely though.
Sulky sticky Fabri Solvi is great for these kind of projects. Completely disolvable and you can print your pattern on it saving so much time. I use it all the time to stitch on denim.
Definitely true! I'm so weird about getting my embroidery wet, but the whole time I was sewing this, I was like, it's a skirt, you'll have to wash it eventually, you should have just used dissolvable interfacing! XD
It looks great with the top you're wearing it with, but it seems that making the green embroidery limits what you can wear with the skirt. If you had made the embroidery monochromatic with the fabric by chosing different beiges and browns you could wear the skirt with more tops? 💖🌞🌵😷
Genuine question from a begginner : after you traced your pattern on paper, why wasn't it an option to poke holes in the pattern with a pin or a tracing wheel and then trace it again with not-white chalk or washable pencils ? (it seems very time consuming though) Also I wonder... instead of paper or interfacing... paper tissue or toilet paper (or anything not bulky that dissolve in water). You would first trace the pattern on it then pin it and embroide over it. Could it work ? (hmm... probably not, i guess the tissue would be trapped under the stiches and just live there forever). Anyway it turned out very pretty, both the design and the colors. The texture really adds to the smooth beige fabric. Makes me want to do embroided pockets.
Gorgeous! 🥰 Excellent video I love it. I'm so going to get some interfacing for transferring designs onto thicker material thanks. What type of interfacing did you use? Some kind of tearaway stuff? And please forgive the pedant in me but it might be helpful to know tapestry wool is 4 ply and crewel wool is half the thickness at 2 ply. Also Jacobean is Jack o bee an rather than Jake o bee an.
Yeah, I wish it wasn't so hard to find the proper crewel wool in America. If you know of a place that sells it, do let me know! Until I find some, tapestry wool shall have to suffice. The interfacing I used from this actually came as packaging in something we ordered, so that was super handy! It's basically a very thin tearaway interfacing though, so I'm certain the same stuff is available in fabric stores.
This is a prime example of weighing the pros and cons of thrifted fabrics. Sure it was cheaper and you could up cycle a curtain, but will it actually work for the project you want it for? Will it work just as well as a new fabric, or will it fight you every step of the process? As someone who has had the pleasure of making and wearing a ren faire costume made of a polyester blackout curtain in the summer heat, please think deeply about your choice of fabric 😂
I'm wondering if perhaps the reason some of the stitches would seem so oversized in wool might be that you said you had bought tapestry wool. This sort of work would be created in crewel wool, which is a markedly finer gauge of thread. 🙂
As Alyssa Maine mentioned there are wash away stabilizers (not interfacings) available. There are also heat away stabilizers. Maybe another option, is to trace the design in the reverse and attach it to the back. While it may still be a bit awkward having the drawing on the back, I believe it's still possible. Then you would just leave the stabilizer in place. As far as tracing on the front, I'm always reluctant to do that especially with questionable fabrics such as polyester. You have no way of knowing how the ink will react when you wash it.
Very true! I definitely tend to shy away from using stabilizers, and I have no idea why! I've collected quite a few in the last year, and I'm working on utilizing them more in embroidery... trying to make my life easier when I can! hahaha
@@gettheetothestitchery I'm very new to hand embroidery so I have no idea if/when stabilizers are of benefit. However, I have been doing machine embroidery for quite a few years and the results would be disastrous without it. In a nutshell (in machine embroidery) you match the type of stabilizer to the type of fabric (1st). Then you select the weight based on the weight of the fabric and the density of the stitches (2nd). So, for example, if I were to stitch on a stretch fabric, I would want to stabilize with a no-show mesh stabilizer. That would prevent the fabric from stretching and/or distorting where I plan to stitch. Then, depending on the density of the design and the weight of the fabic, I would choose light, med or heavy weight. (The weight is like the fabric weight, grams per square meter or ounces per square yard -- and not every manufacturer has the same definition for those weights which makes it even more convoluted.)
Good try, 😁. Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn pronounced Griffuth ap Gwenooinooin. Welsh vowels are not pronounced quite like English & the sound depends where they are in the word. So in general, a y in the middle of a word or phrase is pronounced as an uh sound (as in duh), & at the end of a word it’s an ee sound. A w is an oo sound and counts as a vowel. Ff is soft as in off, one f is hard like of. Single d is a hard th like in the, dd is soft like the th in thing. I live in Cwmgwrach which appears to only have one vowel, but the w’s count as two more. The ch is not pronounced like the ch in cheese, but is a sound that resembles someone trying to clear pea skins or bits of date skin out of the back of their throat…..😂
I cried for you when you got to the interfacing!! 😭😭😭Ahhh there is such a thing as water soluble interfacing. It will wash away really easily with warm water. Oh well you live and learn.❤️❤️❤️
No matter your craft, Pattern crafting can be a most tedious of things. Nothing was ever invented quickly without many a failure before the success.
Yeah, I considered water soluble, but I get so nervous about getting my embroidery wet... in retrospect, I'll have to wash the skirt after wearing it anyway, so I should have given it a try!
I cried as well when I saw her get to the interfacing !!!! I was like noooo water soluble interfacing is a thing!
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I love seeing the birds in the background!
They make transfer pencils that you can use to put the pattern on the fabric. Came out very beautifully!
I love avoiding mistakes by watching someone else make them (apologies), so seeing you have the “a-ha” moment was golden. I think I have printable interfacing so I will see if it is sheer enough to trace through to avoid one additional step. Love the pockets on your skirt. Thanks for fast forwarding to the finished skirt, waiting for the next video would have been frustrating.
Hey, that's what I'm here for! I'll make the mistakes so you don't have to!
@@gettheetothestitchery At my age the fewer mistakes the better. My addiction is Alice in Wonderland. I will have to mix Jacobean embroidery with original Alice illustrations so I can embroider all over my stuff!
I saw yours is Beauty and the Beast.
@@cerwelt Oooo I love that idea! The illustrations from Alice in Wonderland are so good for stitching - it'll be awesome to combine that with crewel work!
These panels are stunning! Love it! Thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Thank you so much!
Update: I just learned that Sulky has a product that is designed to be used for hand embroidery, cross stitch, punch needle quilting ... and even pumpkin carving. You can copy, print or draw the design on one side. You then peel the 2nd side, which is sticky and put it on the front of the fabric. After stitching it washes away. It's called Stick'n Stitch and it's also marketed under 2 other names (but they are all exactly the same): Sticky Fabri-Solvy, and Stick 'n Carve. I hope this helps the next time you have a complicated design you want to have on the front of the fabric.
Yeah, I've used a couple different forms of interfacing on a few projects. I'm not the hugest fan of the sticky wash-away kinds just because they are really thick to stitch through and it changes the feel and experience of the stitching itself (like you can feel the stickiness of the back of the interfacing as you slide your needle through). When there's no other option for transferring your pattern though, they can be a lifesaver!
There's a thin layer of wash-away pellon interfacing that doesn't have a sticky feel. feels like a layer of organza. You can draw on it with sharpie or wash-away pen. I use it for hand embroidery on mesh. Easy.
Interesting, wool embroidery is common in traditional swedish clothes and textile work. Most often the fabric used was also wool, it is called 'påsöm' which literaly translates to 'on-sewing' and I find it very neat. Your kind-of-crewel embroidery is very very beautiful
I love Powys Castle ❤
Loved it, Loved it, Loved it! Crewel is my favourite style of embroidery and you made me laugh throughout the video. Have subscribed to your channel.
Thank you so much and welcome!!
It came out so beautifully!
Hey
I know i am a bit late to this, but as I saw you struggle getting your pattern on the fabric i had an idea. You could’ve used a beamer or something of this sort to projects the image onto the fabric and use a marker to draw it on. I normally use pens that erase with heat appliance and when ironing your fabric the traces will move away. Thats how i do has allways worked.
Your work looks truly wonderful and thank you for kindly sharing that incredible link 💚🌿🌱
Oh man! Those embroideries are really cool!!
I love your Madeleine book! And your work is so beautiful!❤
Just like in history bounding- you have some that go for historically ACCURATE, and others that go for historically INSPIRED. Slight differences do make a difference, but the outcome is always the work of art. You have a very lovely historically inspired piece right there, and I LOVE it!! Do you?
I certainly do! It's definitely a joy to do some historical research and let that inspire your contemporary projects!
This would beautiful all around the bottom of a skirt!
Lol when I started to learn crewel work I thought it was about the stitch😹😹😹 the woman who was working on hers at the time when I decided this was very helpful, that’s when I found out it’s name is not the stitch but the wool that you use, I must of given her a funny look and so she pulled out some hanks and all the labels for the wool was “Crewel” 😹😹😹that’s when it clicked for me I had only used wool for tapestries never for embroidery work. For most fabrics I work with I would have to use such short runs of the wool just so it would not fray, and as I already knew 80% of the embroidery stitch’s I felt I already knew how to crewel work after all🙄🙄sigh.
For 20 plus years I thought it was a special stitch talk about a flat moment of my life. In all my books that I have bought to teach myself embroidery work non of them ever mention that crewel work was actually working with wool.😹😹😹
You were close with the pronunciation, 😹😹 you would love the Welsh castle Powis I went there as a teenager on one of our many trips to Wales when we lived in the UK.
I loved the design on the finished skirt and that’s how I got here lol.
Three little words that I found to be magical. “Wash-A-Way” best invention for machine embroidery which works just as well for hand embroidery too. As it’s expensive I only use a piece big enough to place the design onto it and put stay stitching around the edge of the “Wash-A-Way” once the project or garment is finished I pop it into a warm wash and then dry and all the Wash-A-Way is gone. It’s the bee’s knees for working with any fabric that I’m not able to use with a light box.
I do love your method that you did use in the end it worked well👍🏽👍🏽so I will keep that idea squirrelled away for sure.
I have been enjoying your videos lots of laughs mixed with drama 😹😹😹
That is so cool.
Need the prick and pounce kit and then a water soluble pen!!
I do love the look of this skirt project and I'm sorry it ended up not fitting right 😢
For any future similar projects, would you consider applique? Embroider the design on one piece of fabric, then applique it onto the project itself.
I was thinking that you could then just remove the applique and repurpose it somewhere else if the final product it was put on didn't work out again. Although I guess that would depend on how you attach it 🤔
An option/experiment to use the wool yard on this skirt could have been more loose woven fabric that was embroidered and then appliqued onto the tight woven skirt. Good chance it would turn out superb with attachment via the sewing machine
Poke pin holes all along the design. Place it over your fabric and then make a pouncing bag with cheesecloth and add some dark powdered tailors chalk ( will show up better on your pale fabric but you could get away with white). Then pounce away. Carefully lift the pattern piece and you will have a lot of little dots outlining the pattern in chalk. You then can join them with tailors chalk or a heat erasable pen.
Could you not reverse the design on the computer, and print it onto transfer paper that you could then iron onto the fabric? And zigzag or overlock the fabric edges before stitching?
The skirt turned out lovely though.
I’ve always used a pencil to draw my designs on my fabric. Never had any problems. What is nice about it is if I make a mistake I can erase it.
Sulky sticky Fabri Solvi is great for these kind of projects. Completely disolvable and you can print your pattern on it saving so much time. I use it all the time to stitch on denim.
Definitely true! I'm so weird about getting my embroidery wet, but the whole time I was sewing this, I was like, it's a skirt, you'll have to wash it eventually, you should have just used dissolvable interfacing! XD
It looks great with the top you're wearing it with, but it seems that making the green embroidery limits what you can wear with the skirt. If you had made the embroidery monochromatic with the fabric by chosing different beiges and browns you could wear the skirt with more tops? 💖🌞🌵😷
Genuine question from a begginner : after you traced your pattern on paper, why wasn't it an option to poke holes in the pattern with a pin or a tracing wheel and then trace it again with not-white chalk or washable pencils ? (it seems very time consuming though)
Also I wonder... instead of paper or interfacing... paper tissue or toilet paper (or anything not bulky that dissolve in water). You would first trace the pattern on it then pin it and embroide over it. Could it work ? (hmm... probably not, i guess the tissue would be trapped under the stiches and just live there forever).
Anyway it turned out very pretty, both the design and the colors. The texture really adds to the smooth beige fabric. Makes me want to do embroided pockets.
So pretty.
So beautiful!
Aw thank you! I have been told I make a lot of crazy faces... leaning into it with pleasure! XD
@@gettheetothestitchery And so you should :D Please keep doing what you are doing :D Expressive people are just amazing!
To use interfacing for embroidery, the water soluble version works MUCH BETTER than the tear-away one and it does NOT pull on the stitches.
Gorgeous! 🥰 Excellent video I love it. I'm so going to get some interfacing for transferring designs onto thicker material thanks. What type of interfacing did you use? Some kind of tearaway stuff?
And please forgive the pedant in me but it might be helpful to know tapestry wool is 4 ply and crewel wool is half the thickness at 2 ply. Also Jacobean is Jack o bee an rather than Jake o bee an.
Yeah, I wish it wasn't so hard to find the proper crewel wool in America. If you know of a place that sells it, do let me know! Until I find some, tapestry wool shall have to suffice.
The interfacing I used from this actually came as packaging in something we ordered, so that was super handy! It's basically a very thin tearaway interfacing though, so I'm certain the same stuff is available in fabric stores.
This is a prime example of weighing the pros and cons of thrifted fabrics. Sure it was cheaper and you could up cycle a curtain, but will it actually work for the project you want it for? Will it work just as well as a new fabric, or will it fight you every step of the process? As someone who has had the pleasure of making and wearing a ren faire costume made of a polyester blackout curtain in the summer heat, please think deeply about your choice of fabric 😂
It looks realy cute:o
I'm wondering if perhaps the reason some of the stitches would seem so oversized in wool might be that you said you had bought tapestry wool. This sort of work would be created in crewel wool, which is a markedly finer gauge of thread. 🙂
That's definitely why! When I got crewel wool later on, I was ooooh... yeah, I didn't realize it is so much thinner!
There's also water soluble stabilizer. 😁
👏👏👏🙋🏻♀️📺 Beautiful! I'll come back
Thank you!
Why don't you use one of those pens that the ink disappears with steam? To have the Lines in the fabric directly?
I have a friend who basted on a thin see-through sturdy paper to their tear away patern.
As Alyssa Maine mentioned there are wash away stabilizers (not interfacings) available. There are also heat away stabilizers. Maybe another option, is to trace the design in the reverse and attach it to the back. While it may still be a bit awkward having the drawing on the back, I believe it's still possible. Then you would just leave the stabilizer in place. As far as tracing on the front, I'm always reluctant to do that especially with questionable fabrics such as polyester. You have no way of knowing how the ink will react when you wash it.
Very true! I definitely tend to shy away from using stabilizers, and I have no idea why! I've collected quite a few in the last year, and I'm working on utilizing them more in embroidery... trying to make my life easier when I can! hahaha
@@gettheetothestitchery I'm very new to hand embroidery so I have no idea if/when stabilizers are of benefit. However, I have been doing machine embroidery for quite a few years and the results would be disastrous without it. In a nutshell (in machine embroidery) you match the type of stabilizer to the type of fabric (1st). Then you select the weight based on the weight of the fabric and the density of the stitches (2nd). So, for example, if I were to stitch on a stretch fabric, I would want to stabilize with a no-show mesh stabilizer. That would prevent the fabric from stretching and/or distorting where I plan to stitch. Then, depending on the density of the design and the weight of the fabic, I would choose light, med or heavy weight. (The weight is like the fabric weight, grams per square meter or ounces per square yard -- and not every manufacturer has the same definition for those weights which makes it even more convoluted.)
Have you never heard of wash away stabilizer?
What kind of hoop are you using?
The square quilting/embroidery frame is called a Q-snap!
Washable stabilizer!
Starting with underskirts and ripping seams😂
Water stabelizer
Good try, 😁. Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn pronounced Griffuth ap Gwenooinooin. Welsh vowels are not pronounced quite like English & the sound depends where they are in the word. So in general, a y in the middle of a word or phrase is pronounced as an uh sound (as in duh), & at the end of a word it’s an ee sound. A w is an oo sound and counts as a vowel.
Ff is soft as in off, one f is hard like of. Single d is a hard th like in the, dd is soft like the th in thing.
I live in Cwmgwrach which appears to only have one vowel, but the w’s count as two more. The ch is not pronounced like the ch in cheese, but is a sound that resembles someone trying to clear pea skins or bits of date skin out of the back of their throat…..😂
Yay, thank you for sharing! I was hoping someone from Wales would see this!
👋👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌👌👌👏👏👏😍😍🤗
the way you said the welsh name is not the worst butching of my language I heard
Masan krkas
Just so you know, Jacobean is pronounced like the name Jack not Jake. Good video though.
I was just thinking this too jack-o-bee -ann. But we forgive you Charlie because your videos are entertaining and creative!
Too young to get stuck! I'm 70, man I can get STUCK!
I'm a bit baffled...why spend the time and effort to beautifully embroider a not so nice fabric?
The only useful parte of the video Is the one you talk about stitches, the others are time consuming AND useless!!
👏👏👏🙋🏻♀️📺 Beautiful! I'll come back