Organza Hoop Art

March 1, 2021
Any fabric, as Canadian crafter Godfrey so aptly demonstrates, whether tough-wearing denim or fragile, sheer organza, can be a great home for embroidery. Rather than embellishing items, Godfrey's concept in these dozen projects is to create stitched pictures on organza with a floating, ethereal quality framed by a hoop. First, she lists the required tools, materials, and techniques--in this case, ten stitches with start-to-finish explanation and photographs. One of the most helpful sections/sidebars offers her tips to succeed on sheer fabric, from practice first to work over a bright, solid surface. Projects themselves are rather pedestrian, relying on a lot of satin stitches to fill in blocks of color and on very simple design outlines--ladybugs, iris, and floral wreath, for example-- that don't allow for embroidery intricacies. Enlarging measures aren't provided with pattern templates. Appended with a thread-color conversion chart for Anchor and DMC..

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