400 Floral Motifs for Designers, Needleworkers and Craftspeople by Briggs & Co

Author:Briggs & Co.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486137773
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Slip the carbon, color-side down, between the tracing and the fabric, temporarily removing one of the corner pins if necessary. Do not use typewriter carbon; it will smudge and rub off on the fabric and is almost impossible to remove. Dressmaker’s carbon, available at notions, fabric and dime stores, comes in packs of assorted colors in strips about 7 × 20 inches. It has a hard waxy finish and is designed for our purpose. Do not pin the carbon in place. With a hard, even pressure, trace a few lines with a tracing wheel or similar tool. Raise one corner of the tracing and the carbon to check the impression. If the results are too faint, apply more pressure; if too heavy, less pressure. Too heavy a line is difficult to hide with embroidery and too light a line is hard to see, but keep in mind that the transfer does have a tendency to fade a bit as it is handled and so should be a little on the heavy side. After adjusting the impression, trace the entire design and then remove the carbon and all but two pins. Carefully lift one side of the tracing paper and check to make sure the design is intact on the fabric before removing the pattern. Once removed, it is almost impossible to register the pattern to the fabric again.

If later on, during the embroidery process, the line becomes too faint, touch it up with a waterproof felt-tip pen or a laundry marker. Test the pen! If it is not waterproof it will run and ruin your embroidery; just the moisture from a steam iron is enough to cause this. (A pencil can be used unless you are working with light-colored yarns which the lead could discolor.)

That’s all there is to the basic method of transferring designs. You are now ready to embroider. Keep in mind that the success of your embroidery depends, like a good marriage, on the compatibility of its component parts—a happy wedding of design, fabric, thread and stitches.

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