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| Gone to pieces! |
I decided to combine the crazy patchwork technique from my last project with the stained glass patchwork technique I've been experimenting with. At Winchester cathedral there is a huge window which was destroyed by Cromwell, and restored at the Restoration (ha ha!) What's so amazing is that all the pieces have just been put together in any order - you can see where bits might have gone together and you can see glimpses of what it's supposed to be, but the window is like a giant crazy patchwork. I wanted to recreate this so I drew a design, copied it and cut pieces of both cotton and satiny materials.
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| Pinned and ready to go |
Here I've got all the satin fabric pinned on - excuse the pictures, they're taken with my iPhone and look washed out in one corner for some reason! Anyway, everything is pinned and ready to be stitched. I used a small zig zag stitch on the cotton and a large zig zag stitch on the satin material. Both times I used invisible thread.
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| Stitching |
This is the cotton being sewn. It was tricky sewing the satin as it was prone to fraying. The cotton behaved much better but didn't look so good. The satin looked more like glass because it's shiny.
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| Cotton |
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| Satin |
The final stage was adding the bias binding. It was complicated making sure ends were tucked under the right parts. I used thicker binding on the satin and thinner on the cotton. I am really pleased with the results, but definitely think the satin gives the look I want. I would like to combine it with some heat transfer press printing as this would allow me to create images on shiny fabric which could then be cut up for my window.
