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how-to of the day - making silk paper, part five

by Chloe on May 12th, 2008

Hello my lovely Tangled Thread readers - I hope you had a wonderful weekend & Mother’s Day :-)

Ah, back to the silk paper… In my last post, I showed you how I was using wax crayons and fabric paint to color a background to mount the paper on.  I’ve now embroidered on the canvas using two colors of variegated rayon machine embroidery thread:

I’ve used different floral motifs and the red thread to enhance the red & pink stripes.   I used a simple zig-zag stitch and yellow thread to enhance the thinner yellow stripes.

Now, you could sew the paper onto the canvas at this point, but I’m a firm believer in letting artwork sit over night in between major steps.   It allows you to come back into your studio, with fresh eyes in the morning and be a little more objective.

So let’s meet back here tomorrow and keep on creating!

image source: C Findlay-Harder

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