Oh heck I did not expect the notes to blow up on this, UM
Okay so on a purely technical level, this is not that difficult, you just gotta come at it a little sideways.
The background of this sucker is just rows of 1.5ā³-wide fabric strips. I canāt remember the exact pattern, but I wanna say it was something like one row 6ā³ strips, one row 4.5ā³ strips, one row alternating? I donāt remember exactly, it was a while ago. Thatās not difficult, you just lay it out and sew it all together one row at a time. Itās not hard, just tedious.
The fish are a lil different. I canāt draw, there is a disconnect somewhere and my hands are stupid, so I figured out probably fifteen years ago that tracing was the way to go. For this, I legit just yanked several photos of fancy-looking goldfish off the internet and traced over āem in Photoshop.
Once I had enough, I printed my outlines, laid āem out on the background to create the idea of movement, and then traced the outlines out on fabric and pinned the hell out of āem.
This woulda been WAY easier with Heat āN Bond, but I didnāt know that was a thing at the time. From there I just used just about every fancy stitch on my inherited sewing machine to make the fish STAY WHERE I PUT THEM, and also look good.
I have since learned this is called āraw edge appliqueā but whatever. Itās fun, itās neat, you can do it with a bunch of stuff and impress the hell outta people. More recently, itās how Iāve gone from this:
(this was another project I SUFFERED over unnecessarily, because Iām the dip that decided to quilt the waves, like a moron)
god that sucked but it looked SO COOL when I was done!
snowghoul
theartofmadeline
yousharknotpass
dailybridgerton
origamiaround
titsay
ellievsbear
