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detail

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the result after cut, swapped, machine and hand stitching

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four prepared feltpieces

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Working sheet for Sample 3
Three shapes, different fabrics and felts, threads

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Counter-Interchange Sample 2

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Sample1

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For the shape i used my linol shape from chapter 2 and made a complete shape from this smal piece.

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Picture 2 and 3 show the way I prepared my felt, before I cut

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From the top to the bottem:
Laced insertion stitch, simple insertion stitch, plaited insertion stitch, bottenhole insertion stitch,
beaded insertion stitch, bottenhole bar, machine stitching

Chapter 10 INLAY APPLIQUE

It was interisting to do this work. I used different felt pieces, at some time i bonded coloured "Bonda-web, or made handstitcheing before I cut them in pieces.
I had a lot of fun with the differnt insertion stitches, and was surprised about the effect that I had have with the last piece- positive and negative shapes swapped.

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The shape i used

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Chapter 9
REVERSE APPLIQUE-TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY METHODS

Few month ago, i bought a book about Herta Puls. And now I take a look in it and read about mola technique. Then I choose the frontpicture for my first work.
The first test was not successful, because I cut away on the wrong side. The second was a good result. At the contemporary method i like the multi-coloured-ripple-effekt best. It was so nice when I cut away the first layer, to see which colour comes out. Surpise.

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The first shape was applique with a interisting machine-stitching, but you can`t see it at this point.
The second layer was only painted Bondaweb, but it had`t enough contrast, so i drawed a golden line at the edge and filled out with cretan stitch. The same shape rotated 45° was the third layer. After the first layer, I padded the centre, but it was not the right time. You can`t see it at the finishd piece.

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At the backround fabric I ironed painted Bondaweb, added the first layer with many seeding stitches. The third layer is the repeat of the first , but rotated 45°. Two pieces added for a spezial centre looking.

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Here I used felt for the backround. The first shape is a light polyesterfabric. Here I done some needle lace. Further I added some cut-out shapes with cross stitch. The second shape is made with a silkyarn called " sari yarn " from India. I couched it with a thin thraed. The centre is accented with golden cross stitch.

Working sheet

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Now here I displaced the shapes, I added some pieces from the cut-outs, and the centre was padded.

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The backround is my favorite silkfabric, dyed with onion and leaves. Appliqued a red polycotten fabric with machine stitching, turquoise cotten with gold machine stitching. Added two cut-out pieces. After that i used a orange thread and stitched the second shape again, but I turned through 90°. Hand stitching was done over it, that it is better to see.

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Two self-dyed cottonfabrics in my colour scheme, one silkfabric, golden machine-stitching and hand stitching

Working sheet

Searching for scapes and broken scissor, because the felt and the fabric were to thick

Chapter 8
Complex Samples

I had a lot of fun to do this work, but at the beginning I need a lot of time to found the right shapes for this work. The shapes I thought they were interisting , there were to complicate, and the other one looks like to boring. So I cut many papers, and look again and again in my sketchbook. At the end I used a pair of two different shapes and create in each case three pieces.
I uesed many different fabrics, hand-and machine-stitching threads. At two times I iron painted bondaweb, to become an interisting surface. It was nice to combinate machine-and handstitching together, because there can come more tension in the image.

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back side to picture 2

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front side

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There are some leaving pieces during the past chapters. So I played with it in my journal. First the journalpages were deyed with Brusho colours.
I ironed the pieces- there was bonda-web on the back side - into the journal, and then i painted with a smal black pen, with golden colour, made stitching and so on.