In the past week I have seen the sewing technique of reverse appliqué demonstrated by this sewer.
While in Romania at Bran castle, I photographed an art piece with winged angel shapes.
I drew it then scanned it onto tracing paper (glue tracing paper on printing paper by just dotting a bit of glue on each corner so it goes through the printer.)
I cut out 4 different linen fabrics, then tacked them together around the edge to keep them together.
I pinned the traced sheet on to the top layer & then sewed on the lines with black no 8 Perl cotton. Because of the 4 layers, I could not do a long line of stitches because you have to stitch through all 4 layers. I worked out that back stitch was easier most of the time.
Once all the lines were done, the tracing paper tore away easily to reveal the black lines.
The technique is to cut the sections through the layers so I cut 1layer on 2 wings to reveal blue linen, cut through 2 layers on another 2 wings to reveal pink linen, then the last 2 wings were cut through 3 layers to reveal the dark brown linen.
Linen doesn’t give sharp lines but it is effective & a technique I would approach it differently next time by tracing the outline on a light top layer instead of using tracing paper.
That should make the sewing lines neater & give a sharper edge.
I will try another one as it is an interesting technique with creative possibilities.
Have you tried .this & what hints do you have for me? Thank you for stopping by & supporting my blog,
Dee 🏰🪡📍
