{"id":1217,"date":"2023-12-07T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:44:26","slug":"freehand-embroidery-with-a-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Freehand embroidery with a sewing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carmella inducted me in the fashion studio and taught me how to embroider writing using a sewing machine. It’s a really effective technique and will absolutely speed up adding textile text to the wimple. <\/span><\/div>\n

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It was good to jump on a sewing machine again. I had forgotten a lot of my past skill and was initially quite frustrated. And apparently the college machines can be temperamental. <\/span><\/div>\n
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But after about an hour of practising and experimenting a lot of it came back to me and I was re-threading the machine and problem solving confidently.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I just need to experiment more with the stitch pattern and length until I find the right scale and aesthetic. My initial preference is straight stitch (1 width) and a very short length (1.5).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Carmella said Friday’s are best for me to use the studio space and they are back on the 3rd of January.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I think I will write the words in vanishing pen on the fabric and then embroider over that using the machine, so I can keep the text as intricate, small and legible as possible.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I love the uncomfortable spikey quality of the writing. It’s a nice juxtaposition with the nobility text I plan to write. It almost looks like barbed wire, which has delicious religious overtones. It’s got attitude so it’s its another lush contrast and subversion; because we expect a kind of twee niceness from crafts like sewing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Carmella inducted me in the fashion studio and taught me how to embroider writing using a sewing machine. It’s a really effective technique and will absolutely speed up adding textile text to the wimple.  It was good to jump on a sewing machine again. I had forgotten a lot of my past skill and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}