Project designed by Mary O'Neil.
Materials:
scraps of acetate/rayon velvet
spray bottle filled with water
iron
Steam a Seam double-sided iron-on fusible webbing
rubber stamps from Hot Potatoes
sharp scissors or rotary cutter
ruler
heavy black paper for mounting wall hanging
foamboard
Steps:
- Plan and sketch a wall hanging design on paper. The featured project has a rectangular-shaped background with a three-kimono rubber stamp design positioned in vertical fashion. You can make your design in this manner or differ it entirely--your choice.
- After sketching out a wall hanging design, select a background piece of velvet and complementary-colored scraps to inlay in the background.
- Emboss the velvet scraps by lightly misting the backside of the velvet with water. Place the selected design stamp with the rubber side facing up on an ironing board. Lay the velvet right side down against the stamp image. Press a hot iron to the velvet and hold for 20 seconds, then lift up the velvet (figure A). Continue to emboss all the velvet scraps in this fashion.
- Emboss the background velvet with same design that you used for embossing the velvet scraps (figure B).
- Place the embossed velvet pieces, wrong side down, on the stickier side of iron-on , double-sided fusible webbing. Leave the paper backing on the other side of the webbing.
- Carefully cut along the outline of the embossed design in the background piece of velvet. Keep the cut along the outline of the embossed design only. (figure C). Cut out the embossed designs from the scraps of velvet.
- Cut a piece of heavy black paper to use for mounting the wall hanging. It should be two to three inches larger on each side than the background velvet. Cut a piece of fusible webbing in the same size. Peel the protective paper from the less sticky side of the fusible and position it on top of the heavy paper. Peel the protective backing off the up-side of the fusible.
- Place background velvet, right side up, on the web-covered paper. Tuck the embossed design cutouts into the cut-away sections of the background velvet (figure D).
- To create a border for wall hanging, cut strips of velvet backed with fusible webbing. Use a ruler and sharp scissors to get straight lines, or a rotary cutter is also a great tool for this (figure E).
- Remove the paper backing from the strips and lay them down around the wall hanging inlaid velvet design to form the border (figure F).
- Cut and position additional strips to complete the border (figure G and H).
- Position foamboard on top of project and use it to help carefully flip the project over. Lightly iron the back on the black paper side to bond all the pieces together (figure I). The pieces cannot be moved once they are pressed, so make sure the pattern is correct before ironing the fabric.
- Turn the project back over and trim off any frayed edges. This is a good time to clean the velvet by rolling it with a lint brush. The piece can be framed shadowbox style so that the velvet is not crushed by glass.
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