Re: [h-cost] Stumpwork

[Bjarne og Leif Drews]

Hi Roscelin,
Depends what you mean with beginner. A person who has absolutely never made 
embroidery before would have problems, as there are lot of basics to learn 
before you can start stumpwork.
A good starter is an australian book called : Australian Wildflowers in 
Stumpwork, by Anette Hinde. That book learned me a lot.

Bjarne
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Stumpwork


Bjarne,

  Have you looked or used these books for stumpwork Beginner's Guide to 
Stumpwork" by Kay Dennis or "Stumpwork Embroidery:  A Collection of 
Fruits, Flowers and Insects" and "Stumpwork Embroidery: Designs and 
Projects" both by Jane Nicholas?
  If you or anyone else on the list has: what did you think of them for a 
beginner?

Roscelin

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From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Becky,
You should get Helan Pierce's Dimentional Embroidery. Its a lovely book .
All her projekts in this book are made in wool, but you can easy adapt 
them
to the yarn you prefer. I translated and used Eterna stranded Silk Floss.
Each petal is first outlined with a thin wire, then the edge is heavily
buttonhole stitched. Finally you stitch with short and long stitch of the
whole petal. When all things is done, they can be cut out and sewed onto 
the
foundation embroidery and this way it gets 3 dimentional. I have 2 flower
buds, 4 green leaves and 2 full blomed flowers in dimentional embroidery 
on
this bag.
It really looks much more difficult than it is, i was quite surprised how
easy it was done and also how lovely it looks when embroidery gets
dimentional.

Bjarne
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From: "Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] ladys gusset bag


>I loved the bags. how did you get the tiny petals to stand off the 
>surface?
>I can embroidry pretty well but have not done any such 3-D work/ I'm
>interested in how you did it.
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> From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:08 AM
> Subject: [h-cost] ladys gusset bag
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>> Hi,
>> I finished the embroidery with the dimentional flowers for a ladys 
>> bag. I
>> baught some silk chiffon wich i want to use for the gusset of the bag.
>> Then
>> i want to make a big tassel wich is going to hang at the bottom of the
>> bag
>> of the pink floss you see on the top of the chiffon. Finally i shall 
>> also
>> make the handle somehow of the same pink thread.
>> http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/purseembroideries.htm
>>
>> Bjarne
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>> Leif og Bjarne Drews
>> www.my-drewscostumes.dk
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