...I had a pretty embroidered dress that had gotten a spot of bleach on it...not sure how that happened...
...but it needed to be covered up with something...
...so I matched the thread on the existing embroidery as well as possible...and just started stitching with the chain stitch...
...just a sort of free form leaf shape...as most of the shapes already embroidered on the dress are done that way...
...I embroidered closer together right over the spot to make sure it was completely covered....
...until it was completely filled in and covered...
...the back...
...so the little free form leaf on the left over the spot is complete...but the front of the dress has lost it's symmetry...
...and the symmetry lover that I am couldn't be done with it like that...so I put a book underneath the new embroidered leaf...
...covered it with a piece of paper...
...and using the flat side of a pencil...did a rubbing imprint of the embroidery...
...then to get the mirror image that I needed for the other size...I held it up against a window with the rubbing to the outside so I could see through the paper and traced the outline...
...then I turned the paper back over and rubbed it with the pencil again...rather darkly...in order to make a sort of carbon transfer on the other side of the paper...
...then positioned that over the right side of the dress in the same place as the leaf on the left...and traced over the outline...pressing down hard to transfer the rubbing onto the dress...
...it makes a faint outline to follow for the embroidery on this side...
...then I just embroidered that the same way...
...ah...symmetry...
...would you have gone with symmetry or assymetry on the dress?...
~Have a lovely day!
how cool was that? very cool....you're so smart.....love, k
ReplyDeleteI would have done it just this way. What a pretty dress, is it a special occasion or a 'hippy' dress?
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant!! It would have been a waste of such a gorgeous dress, so it was worth the time you spent saving it.
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