Last night after I posted my progress I felt like I should experiment with embroidery since I knew I’d be doing a TON of it on this dress. The first thing I tried was machine embroidering the edge of a yellow petal (with black thread because it was already in my machine and I was too lazy to switch to yellow). It worked but looked awful. It was squiggly and just generally really amateur looking.
Next I tried embroidering over the puffy paint with embroidery thread, which also didn’t work. It was way too chunky and squiggly and gross looking, but it was better. I think.
This morning I had the brilliant idea of using just one thread of the embroidery floss with a regular needle rather than a tapestry needle, and it worked! Man does it take forever, but it looks beautiful! The result is the lower right of the right petal.
Because it takes so long though I have decided to use this method only on the tiny pieces of the bodice, which I appliqued this morning as well. I also added puffy paint to one quarter of it so it could get drying (it takes 4 hours before I can begin embroidering over it – yikes!). Next up after all that will be adding rhinestones to make it sparkle!
For the petals on the sunflowers of the skirt I think I will just outline them with thread. Hand embroidering those things would take a lifetime. Here is my test of such a method. The yellow bit was my attempt at full embroidery floss without puffy paint, which went nowhere quick.
I bought the heavy duty HeatnBond paper for the skirt since I won’t be actually embroidering it. The lite version is meant for it to be stitched on. I will work on those as I wait another 2 hours for the paint to dry, then it’s gonna be embroidery central in here!
Until next time! xoxo
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