Monday, July 25, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Tutorial for Mesh with flowers
Method of preparing the graph
Preparation of graph is little different from others.I will explain it with drawings so that it will be easy to understand.Draw a graph of 4cms having 17 squares in width as well as in length on the wrong side of the material.Group them in to big squares having 9 squares in each as shown in the figure.I have coloured them orange so that it will be easy to understand.
Mark the mid points outer sides of small squares and name them A,B.C,D,E,F,G,H and L.join them together by lines as shown in the figure by green lines.
Smocking is done only on the squares which I have coloured green.
Graph should be drawn on the wrong side of the material.Graph looks like this on cloth.
Make a mark on the squares that should be smocked.Smocking is done on the green squares by joining 4 points 1,2,3,and 4.
Let us consider one set of 9 squares
Smocking is done only on the squares which I have coloured green.
Graph should be drawn on the wrong side of the material.Graph looks like this on cloth.
Make a mark on the squares that should be smocked.Smocking is done on the green squares by joining 4 points 1,2,3,and 4.
Let us consider one set of 9 squares
Smock the 4 squares in the corners by joining 4 points.Please note smocking is done on the wrong side of the material. Method is here
On the reverse ( Right side of the material) it looks like this.
Pull the 4 triangles out from the points shown by the arrows.
After pulling out the triangle from back it looks like this.A square is formed.
Take a threaded needle out from the center of the square and join the mid point of the opposite sides of the square as shown below
and then like this
Finished flower is like this
Follow the same procedure for the other sets of squares
right side looks like this.
we can sew cushion of size 40cmx40cm from this material
Oh ! what a lengthy tutorial! But it is very easy to do!