Tanya arrived with her bags full of beautiful stump work/3D embroideries to inspire us to embroider a 3D butterfly.
Tanya had devised three different ways of making the butterfly according to how many wings we wired and could be 3D.
We could wire all 4 wings, wire 2 wings and embroider the bottom 2 wings or wire 1 wing and attach it to the side [a closed up butterfly].
Tanya talked us through what we would be doing and provided us with comprehensive instructions and skeleton outlines of the butterflies.
Most members started by making the padded body with 3 layers of felt stitched to the background.
The lower 2 wings could be stitched onto the background fabric and stitched in long and short stitch or satin stitch.
The shape for the wired wings was drawn onto the fabric, the wire was couched around the shape and finally buttonhole stitched closely to cover the wire
The wired wings could be embroidered, left as a pretty fabric or the veins stitched. After the wing had been cut out the wire ends would then be poked through a hole attaching them to the body making them 3D.
3D work is very time consuming and fiddly so the butterflies would be finished at home but members would find that the result was worth all the fine stitching with one thread!
A big thank you to Tanya for inspiring us, organising the session. preparing the instructions and helping us through the steps. We are all looking forward to seeing the finished butterflies.
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