Stitches and Bits

Add some fun laces, trims, yarns, ribbons and a variety of threads to the tucks from the previous lesson and you have a quick and easy embellished result. Make the tucks as deep as you need, or no tucks at all when you apply flat trims to the surface. 

Stitches and Bits - Sandy
Sandy added a variety of trims on top and in tucks, as well as decorative stitching to make this piece.

                                                                                    Sandy


Stitches and Bits - Candy
Candy has looped a variegated yarn in the top tuck, added pleated fabric and some interesting trim and zigzagged stitched along the edges.

                                                                                 Candy



Stitches and Bits - Claire
In addition to adding tucks of different depths depending on what was being placed in the tucks (lace, pleated fabric, crinkly trim, rick-rack), I also added yarns and ribbons flat to the piece for more surface texture and then included the fringe of beads at the bottom.
I quilted across the folds in three places to securely hold the layers together and after stitching the three layers together around the edges, I couched a piece of narrow yarn on top of that stitching to finish it.

                                                                                      Claire

Stitches and Bits - Annette
Annette tucked ribbon and tabs into the folds and draped a strip of lace across the bottom tuck. The tabs bend up and down from the tuck. She hand-embroidered the upper section in a decorative pattern and sewed square glass beads to the tabs to finish the piece..

                                                                                Annette



Stitches and Bits - Donnie
Donnie has used two sizes of rick rack, several decorative machine stitches, a few different trims sewn into tucks and finished with a couched yarn edging.

                                                                      Donnie


Stitches and Bits - Joyce
Joyce has added some interesting "bits" into the sewn tucks on her piece. She has a piece of lace that is dimensional, leaning forward on the top row, difficult to see in the photo, some flat laces and trims, a three flower arrangement tucked into the center, two feathers poking out further down and more pieces of flowers. She took a ribbon and pleated it and tucked that in to add more texture and dimension.

                                                                                      Joyce


Stitches and Bits - Sue
Sue combined techniques with this piece. She used a nice variety of trims and stitches and used a pleated gold ribbon tucked into the top row. The leaf fabric shows the stencilled fabric on the reverse side of the Stitches and Bits, combining two techniques successfully.



Sue - front

Sue - stencilled back

Stitches and Bits - Nancy
Nancy stitched her piece in two sections, joined on the diagonal and incorporated trims, lace, ribbons, yarns and embellishments to successfully complete this piece that is edged with yarn.

Nancy