REVERSE APPLIQUE – TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY METHODS
1. TRADITIONAL HAND SEWN METHOD
I chose this design because I thought it was fairly simple; however, it did have a number of points and I found it difficult to get them as neat as I wanted. However, overall it looks ok. This is a photo rather than a scan (because the scanner is still being temperamental) and the colour has washed out a bit; the background fabric is a teal green which I printed with my stamp using red acrylic.
2. CONTEMPORARY METHODS USING A SEWING MACHINE
Again the colour is a little washed out, but I liked this technique and it looks effective. I chose to cut on the inside of the shape so that it was essentially the reverse of the previous hand sewn sample. In that way I could have examples of the two alternatives, as far as cutting away the layers is concerned.
This was a piece of printed fabric that I started to use for a sample in Chapter 7, but I wasn’t happy with it, both because of the combination of colours but also because I was going to end up with a sample that didn't have layers of fabric in the way they should be. So I used this as the background fabric for the sample in this part.
I used one of my earlier designs as the basis for this sample, and although the shapes got a bit small I was still able to get a number of layers to show through. As you can see there are different colours showing in some parts where the underlying fabrics have not been placed right across the sample. I thought this was a very interesting technique and I enjoyed doing this one.
Detail of previous sample.
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