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how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

by Chloe on June 20th, 2008

Okay, so do you have everything I asked you for yesterday?

Good - let’s get sewing :-)

To begin, we need to interface the back of the fabric with a heavy-weight interfacing.  I find it’s easiest to cut a square of fabric out with the motif in the center, rather than trying to fussy cut the fabric.

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 Interface the backing fabric:

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 Now fuse a lightweight fusible webbing (I’m using Heat N Bond Lite for this) onto the wrong side of the backing fabric, according to the webbing package directions.  Fuse the backing fabric and the front fabric motif together.

Let cool and then cut out the motif:

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 We need to finish the edges, so I’m using a satin stitch (a tightly-packed zig-zag) around the edges.  I’d recommend doing some test stitches first, just to make sure you’ve got the right stitch width and density:

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 Here’s the butterfly with the satin stitch all completed around the edges & accent lines around the inner wings:

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 But I don’t think it’s quite done - I think a little more stitching would be good…

how-to of the day - 3-D pins or brooches from fabric motifs

 I’ve used a hot pink metallic thread (remember to go much slower than normal when you’re working with metallics) to stitch over some of the accent lines on the wing.

Hand-stitch a safety pin or brooch back to the wrong side of the pin.  Gently bend the wings to add some dimension (you can also use fabric stiffener, but I don’t think this one really needs it).

Wear and enjoy!

all images: C Findlay-Harder

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