tyvek
Posted: Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
as I had said in an earlier post I wanted to try some of the many techniques out there that I have so far not had a play with and that I was going to start with the ones mentioned in a book I have: Surfaces to Stitch by Gwen Hedley,
the first material Gwen describes is Tyvek, now all I know about tyvek is that it is a manmade material that melts when heat is applied and in the usa they often use it to make envelopes, I have been told a much heavier version is used in the building trade but that is not what I am using here, . were kind enough to return my 2006 JQ鈥檚 in a tyvek envelope and sent out some info in a tyvek envelope too so I had 2 envelopes to play with,
first I slapped some paint on that was hanging around, these are experiments just to see how tyvek shrinks, when you apply heat it bubbles so depending on which side you apply the heat you get concave or convex bubbles, oh, just thought some may be wondering how I heated it, with my iron on a medium setting and you place the tyvek between 2 sheets of baking parchment or you will have a very messy iron, here are my first two,
the minuet I saw the convex piece I had an idea for my January Journal Quilt (JQ),
you can stitch on the tyvek so I did some machine stitching on the next couple of pieces, (sorry the stitching does not show much), I cut each of these in half and Iron one on the front and one on the back to see the difference, the top one is straight horizontal stitching and the bottom is wavy horizontal stitching,
I was surprised that the stitching didn鈥檛 seem to alter the way it bubbled at all,
Then I stitched another 2 pieces this time the top one has had straight crisscross lines and the lower one free motion machine (fm) circles,
I decided I like the unstitched best,
the first material Gwen describes is Tyvek, now all I know about tyvek is that it is a manmade material that melts when heat is applied and in the usa they often use it to make envelopes, I have been told a much heavier version is used in the building trade but that is not what I am using here, . were kind enough to return my 2006 JQ鈥檚 in a tyvek envelope and sent out some info in a tyvek envelope too so I had 2 envelopes to play with,
first I slapped some paint on that was hanging around, these are experiments just to see how tyvek shrinks, when you apply heat it bubbles so depending on which side you apply the heat you get concave or convex bubbles, oh, just thought some may be wondering how I heated it, with my iron on a medium setting and you place the tyvek between 2 sheets of baking parchment or you will have a very messy iron, here are my first two,
the minuet I saw the convex piece I had an idea for my January Journal Quilt (JQ),
you can stitch on the tyvek so I did some machine stitching on the next couple of pieces, (sorry the stitching does not show much), I cut each of these in half and Iron one on the front and one on the back to see the difference, the top one is straight horizontal stitching and the bottom is wavy horizontal stitching,
I was surprised that the stitching didn鈥檛 seem to alter the way it bubbled at all,
Then I stitched another 2 pieces this time the top one has had straight crisscross lines and the lower one free motion machine (fm) circles,
I decided I like the unstitched best,
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