New to me Technique Contest - 1.08. - 31.08.2019

[Manuela]

Welcome to the New to me Technique contest. This contest is all anout getting out of your comfort zone and trying something new. It is open to all categories, be it garments, patchwork, quilting, accessories - everything goes, as long as you use a technique you have never used before/always wanted to try. This can be anything: appliqué, bound button holes, handworked buttonholes, inserted pockets, zip fly...... the list goes on

As usual a few rules:

1. You shall sew a minimum of one piece - it can be anything, garment, accessories, soft furnishings, quilts, etc. Using a technique that is new to you
2. If you want to make more than one entry, feel free to do so, but submit them in separate posts
3. Please clearly indicate what , if any, pattern you used and what, if any, changes you made
4. You don't need to use a commercial pattern, self drafted is fine
5. Sewing starts on August 1st, you can prepare & fit the pattern and cut before that date
6. Sewing finishes on August 31st please post pictures by September 7th
7. Please use the template below when you submit your entry post


(your name)'s Entry (indicate the number if you have more than one entry  )

What was the ‘new to’ me technique

Pattern used (commercial or self-drafted, anything goes)

A short description on how you made it/problems overcome/etc.

Pictures (ideally included in the text, but I can do that for you if needed)


Happy Sewing

[Lachica]

What a great idea for a contest. I'm away from my sewing machine so might have to think of a hand- sewing technique to try.

[Iminei]

Could that be the hand Embroidery for The Starry Night Hanging ????

[Manuela]

Could that be the hand Embroidery for The Starry Night Hanging ????

It could be indeed @Iminei - I always keep The Darksiders in mind for the contests, that gives a very nice variety of entries.

[Pearl]

I have been attending a course called Techniques Time once a month for more than a year so I thought this might be the competition for me.  However, next month's technique is broderie perse, which I really don't fancy.  Will have to have a think.   

[Lilian]

@Manuela would making a teddy bear for the first time count as a new technique? 

[Manuela]

@Manuela would making a teddy bear for the first time count as a new technique? 

I’m sure there will be a few techniques you haven’t done before in the project. So, yes, it counts 

[Lilian]

@Manuela Ok I'm in (i think) 

Yes, stitching something 3D is new to me.

[indigotiger]

Hmmmm I really want to do this, but am struggling to come up with a new to me technique that also fits with the sewing I plan for my wardrobe... maybe some sort of collar or cuff treatment?
edited: decided that I am going to create a detachable collar for the next everyday dress in my queue, since I want it to have a white collar. This will be a challenge because I'm being completely unsuccessful at finding online information. All I've found so far is either dickies, which is not what I want, or "detachable" collars that aren't actually attached to anything, but more like a necklace one ties around the neck, or vintage men's starched or clerical collars. I'm excited to try and figure out for myself a way to make this work!

[Manuela]

.... I've never done it but maybe this will be the contest I enter. Who am I kidding. I'll sew something three days after the deadline as usual

Now there is a theme, now it all makes sense

[b15erk]

I'm just not coming up with anything. 

I've trawled YouTube with no success up to now.  I'll keep trying though.

Jessie

[BrendaP]

I'm going to do a trapunto style embroidery picture of a blue lobster.

A couple of weeks ago the theme for the art group meeting was 'lobster'  I found a picci of a blue lobster on the web and produced a not very good watercolour,
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but it kept saying 3D to me, in the style of a little sea horse which I did during a tester session at craft club a year or so ago.  It's white voile over white fabric and the stuffing is chopped up bits of embroidery thread, knitting yarn etc.  That's what gives it its colour, but it is a bit wishy-washy.
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The new to me techniques are heat transfer dyes and machine stitching around the outlines.

[BrendaP]

I totally forgot to take photos of the dye transfer stage but it consisted of painting the dye onto sheets of thin paper, allowing it to dry and then cut out shapes from that and place dye side down onto synthetic (poly or nylon) fabric and and ironing (between sheets of baking parchment t protect the iron) to make the dye transfer.

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The only suitable fabric I could find in stash is a bit thicker than the sea horse's voile so the colours of the stuffing don't show through so much; most of the colour you can see is dye.  Here it is partly stuffed.
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Once it's fully stuffed I'll have to think about how to embroider it.

[indigotiger]

Brenda -  I'm curious... will your blue lobster become a wall hanging, or become part of another project? I'm unfamiliar with the type of quilting? you are doing.

[BrendaP]

@indigotiger  If I like it when it's finished it will go into a picture frame.  As you can see from the photos the depth of the padding, even though it is soft and not very firmly stuffed, means that the rest of the fabric is puckering and needs to be stretched out so it wouldn't work as just a hanging.