Went to the park again after work and got some more stitching done. It was HOT today, but all the sudden the sky went dark and rumbling thunder and lightning filled the sky. We started towards home but we didn't beat the rain. We ended up having to duck under awnings and in door ways *three* different times to keep out of the serial deluges.
But I did get some good dragon scale stitching done. I did one diagonal. Now I'll remove the stabilizer and do the other diagonal.
If you aren't familiar with how I do my stitching on felt, check out my
embroidery on felt tutorial. The tear-away stabilizer I use takes FOREVER to remove once you're done stitching, but it works really well. I bought the *humongous* sized package, so I'll probably never run out.
If you read through the 69 comments on the tutorial, people suggest all sorts of other materials for tracing and embroidering a design, such as tissue paper, wax paper, waste fabric, water soluble paper, and plain old paper.
Some say to just trace the design on the felt, but if you've ever tried that then you know it's impossible to trace something detailed on fuzzy felt. Impossible. That would totally work for fabric, but felt is a whole other story. If you know an embroidery design transfer trick, leave it in the
tutorial's comments for others to discover.
The design comes from my
Dover Sampler email that comes every Friday. Dover makes some royalty-free images from it's books available for free through the sampler email. The image I'm stitching is from a Chinese Kite book. I've simplified it a lot (not enough!), but I'll show you that in another post.