#I prolly wouldn’t bother with veins or anything just making a pretty cutaway
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oracleofsecrets · 27 days ago
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Wip - fairy wings portion — (completed project here!)
First wing done. Buttonhole stitch was a meeeeessss most of the way through 😭 after doing the other wings I did cave and redo the worst of it
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Much better on the first long wing. Bc I’m using mouliné floss I don’t love how the backstitch doesn’t lie very flat without pulling tight, which would then probably overstretch the organza
So for the large wing I did Holbein stitch instead, which kind of turned into semi-split Holbein, where I make sure I pierce through the previous thread when going up or down into a previous stitch. That seemed to make for a straighter line, too. Idk if it’s just this thread and fabric combo but doing regular backstitch makes the stitches seem a little wobbly even though I’m going through the exact same hole
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A couple days later I finished stitching the wings For the second small wing I used I think a size 3 needle for at least the buttonhole edging, which turned out nice. Not very tenable though bc I can barely fit even a single strand of the mouline through the eye without that tail end frazzling quickly
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Was p nervous about removing the stabilizer since this fabric is so delicate. No problems from the outside, but the inside was trickier. I did a bunch of stuff to try to make it come out easier than it did on the small wing up top in this pic…
I took a sewing needle and gently poked along the stitch lines just to get through the stabilizer but not the fabric. Then I used that needle near the edging to start a tear and switched to tweezers to carefully pull it away. But I also used cuticle / hangnail clippers to cut away along the inner stitching so that I wouldn’t be yanking on those. Took a bit, and I think there are still tiny bits of stabilizer stuck between the buttonhole but it’s not noticeable enough for me to care after working on this for like 5 hours straight today
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I cut out the short wings but I’m so nervous that the organza is going to break off, so I painted the raw edges with clear nail polish lol. For the big wings, I put some fabric glue on the back side all along where I’ll be cutting so that hopefully that will keep the fabric from fraying once I cut it. I’m leaving that for tomorrow bc by that point it had been 6 hours of working on it and obvi the glue needs to set
After that it’ll be pompom cutting, shaping, and “dyeing” and then assembly :x
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