3 Must Try Surface Sewing Techniques On Natural Cork Fabric

• to start you’ll need a solid color cork fabric. Here we’ve used square panels of measurements 6/6 inches;

Stripes Thread Embroidery 

• mark the stripe lines;

• fill your bobbin with an embroidery thread;

• now let the top thread be the normal sewing thread;

• start stitching your stripes with the backing side facing you;

• stitch along those marked lines;

• make sure you leave some excess thread while cutting;

• make an edge stitch on either side and cut out the excess thread;

• repeat the same on the other side;
• now add more stitch lines with normal machine thread in between;

• this will give you a alternate thin and heavy stripes; 

• our first embroidery swatch is now ready;

 

Patch Work 

• don’t throw away your cutting waste from previous projects; 

• cut them into abstract shapes and patch it to a cork fabric;

• cut and paste the shape you like on to the fabric;

• make a very close edge stitch along the patch as shown;

• stitch along all the sides of the patch and you are done with you second swatch;

• pretty and abstract patch work is now ready;

 

Swatch Lines

• now we are going to use strips of cork with different width to make the weave;

• alternate up and down method to make the weave (as shown);

• continue until the edge. Hold the edge together and paste it as shown;

• stitch the sides of the panel to avoid bulging and slippage;

Your swatches are now ready!