3 Must Try Surface Sewing Techniques On Natural Cork Fabric
- If you are feeling that you have no inspiration for your next DIY sewing project, then this blog article is for you :)
- Follow along and get some new ideas for your designs:
- 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!
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