- We've all doodled,
sketching with short pencil strokes or shapes
in the margins of notes or even homework.
I'd like to show you how to translate those doodles
onto fabric with your sewing machine
to create small works of art.
The sewing is fast, the end result gratifying.
Let's begin with doodling with a zigzag stitch.
Queen Anne's lace flowers can easily be sketched
with a condensed zigzag stitch and a little sewing savvy.
You'll be impressed how using what's commonly known
as a bar tack stitch
can turn into an artistic design.
"Doodle Stitching,"
that's what's next on Sewing with Nancy.
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- Chances are your sewing machine can zigzag,
and if they can, you can make either--
if it can, you can make either of these designs with--
we have the Queen's Anne's lace as an option
or just some generic big flower, contemporary-looking flower.
A zigzag stitch,
a straight stitch are what you'll need,
and we've slipped our little artwork designs
over the Plexiglas frame
that you can use for a photo.
So to do the stitching,
first we do some sketching,
some pre-doodle on paper and pencil,
and my little art book...
And art I put in parentheses.
I've doodled some flowers that I'm going
to stitch or show you how to stitch today.
And you can translate that right onto your fabric
using a water-soluble pen, a marking pen,
a pen that disappears with the heat of the iron.
Whatever you'd like, you can use.
To make it--stitching a little bit easier,
use a craft interfacing that's cut 6" x 8"
and some fabric that's been fused to it
and then just kind of sketch
where you're going to be stitching.
Now, you might have
some fabric left over,
especially also the craft interfacing,
and put a little of that fabric on the craft interfacing
and do some testing, and this is what I use
to test out my designs,
to see which width of the stem I should use,
which length, et cetera.
and a 0.5 length.
and a 0.5 length.
And before we start stitching,
I might want to talk about thread.
You can use
embroidery thread, rayon,
or you can use cotton thread if you'd prefer.
Use bobbin thread in the bobbin,
embroidery needle,
and then embroidery thread I've chosen for the top.
For the multicolored flowers, I've chosen
three shades of the same color,
and I'm going to also just use the white
for the Queen's Anne's lace.
Now, to do the stitching,
I've started to stitch the
stems with a 2.5 width.
You can see I have two stems almost done,
and I'll just continue
to sew to the center of this flower,
and then for that Queen's Anne's lace, I had
some kind of center spokes where the lace
attaches to, if we look back to the--
you can see maybe just those
little straight stitches that go out.
So now I'm going to change my stitch length
just to a straight stitch and stitch back--
front and back,
stop in the center,
then pivot.
Now, on my machine, I have--
I'm lifting the presser foot with my knee,
the knee lift lever, and if you can do that,
if you have that availability,
this makes doodling on the machine a lot faster.
It's kind of a no-hands approach
to working with the presser foot,
so I'll--whoop. I'll just kind of--
There's really no right or wrong here,
so I'm gonna back up
so I get ready to do the stitching
for the blooms.
Now, this is a standard bar tack stitch,
and let's look at my sample
where I've done the practice stitching.
On this practice, I have
three different colors of the yellow,
and here's the three different colors of the pink,
and the threads just go from one to the other.
I never bother cutting them.
It kind of connects all together,
so I'm going to change my machine
and stop with the needle
in the upright position,
so not in the fabric, so I can do that.
I'll turn that off,
and then I'll go to a zigzag stitch.
And I did some testing,
and the further the flower is to you,
the closest, the wider the width,
so let's go for a width about 3
and a length, again, pretty short: 0.5.
And you can test-- do a testing, first of all,
a pre-test, pre-doodle.
But we now need to change thread colors.
It wouldn't look too good in green,
so I'm going to quickly change the thread.
And go in this manner.
You could also make a greeting card
with this technique,
maybe a 4" x 6" instead of this larger size,
and stitch it to some paper,
so you can have quick little projects
that you can make with doodling.
That's the whole idea, not--
we're not making quilts that are heirloom.
We're making projects that-- little works of art.
So let me see if I can get this threaded without glasses,
which I can,
and now I'll just start to doodle.
Doodle with this zigzag stitch, stopping with the needle up.
Move it, oh, 1/4"
slightly turn the fabric...
And you can see that you just fill in the blanks,
fill in your doodle.
Now, with white, it's really simple.
You don't have to change threads,
but if you were using a multicolor--
creating a colorful flower,
you could use 1/3 of the stitching
with a light pink,
1/3 of the stitching with a dark pink,
and just let those thread tails...
tail, be part of the design.
And this is mindless sewing.
It really doesn't take much effort or thought,
and it's kind of enjoyable.
So I'll just cut the threads and show you how this--
how quickly this fills in, and obviously,
I have a little bit of work to do yet
to fill this in, but it shows you
how the design can be enhanced by all the stitching.
If there are some thread tails you don't care for,
just clip them away.
Now, if you want
to make a more predominant bloom,
in our second little contemporary design,
we had a large center
stamen area of each flower.
That's also made with a zigzag stitch.
And I'll just show this to you on my sample here.
And increase the width.
Increase the width of the...
zigzag, and you can keep the length very short,
and I'm just gonna put it
in the middle of this area.
I'd probably do it at the end.
But zigzag stitch-- and now it would be important--
I'm gonna go back to my screen
and put the needle in the lowered position
to stop with the needle down,
and I'll stop with it in the center.
We'll give it one more stitch.
Raise the presser foot, rotate it, and stitch.
Many years ago, I had a guest, Barb Prihoda,
who taught me this technique.
I learn from my guests,
just like you learn from them as well,
and I was really glad to have an area to show--
to demonstrate this again.
So you just keep turning
and rotating
so that you can get a bigger bloom.
In the book that accompanies today's program,
we'll show you how to frame many of the various
little art projects that we're creating, and you can make
a variety of things, but you're not gonna
spend a lot of time or work on this.
This is just--as I said, the topic is doodling.
And you can see, the center, how dramatic
that can be-- again, with a zigzag stitch,
stopping with the needle in the middle
and just rotating it around and--simple as that.
So straight stitch, zigzag stitch,
short lengths, and if you are--
when you're done, you can make it
like a little quilt, bind the--
edges--excuse me-- and have a backing
that can slip over the Plexiglas frame,
and you have a little work of art
made with needle, thread, and a little bit of time.
Odds and ends of silk fabric cut into squares
and stitched to another fabric
showcase my next doodle project.
Learn to use a single motif of a decorative stitch
that's already programmed into your sewing machine
as part of the doodling process.
Like the pencil-and-paper sketching,
each sketch 'n stitch project
will be its own unique work of art.
When I started with this doodle process,
I just decided, oh, let's sketch
what I think is in my sewing machine
or what could be for some decorative stitches.
And you may have 10, you may have 100,
you may have more, but chances are,
these stitches that you have
you don't use as often as you'd like,
so this is the perfect project to look at,
to work with, and to look at your machine,
what you have available, and...
here I have the decorative stitches pulled up,
and I like the airy stitches
more than the filled-in stitches,
so you can see, rather than something heavy like this,
I would prefer perhaps that we go back--
let's try the Greek key.
It's open
and a little bit easier to work with.
See if you like it.
Stitch it out on a scrap of fabric.
And this is what I used when working
with my sample,
my work of art, my doodle stitch,
and just let it stitch
and see if you think it's too big, too small,
you want it different than you have it,
whatever you'd like,
and then you can maybe make a note
of what number it is
so that you can reference it again.
And here we have the Greek key,
but I don't want two of them, so I'll go to my machine,
and on the screen,
I can just press a button so I get a single motif,
and perhaps on yours,
you'll have a different way of working with it,
but regardless, just stitch out a single motif.
If you don't have that function, you can kind of
guesstimate where a stitch stops and starts.
You kind of need to know that if you'd like
to center the stitch in the square of fabric.
And I'm gonna leave the thread tails long,
so you can see that it started
about 1/4" up from the center.
Now the fabric...
I used silk.
I had scraps of silk dupioni in my fabric stash.
You could use whatever you'd like,
and you just want to have something
that can ravel a little bit,
and you can see that-- here's a square cut.
You can ravel it, and because of the way it's woven,
the warp and weft are of different colors,
and you kind of get some interesting looks,
so really fast to do.
On my table, I have a piece
of black fabric, silk fabric,
and I backed it with felt
so that it has a little bit more support.
You could use interfacing. I just happened to use felt.
And then I had a showcase fabric
and then all my little squares,
and I will just kind of use some--
a little paper glue stick and determine a layout,
and I'm gonna do this quickly,
but you get the idea of what's happening.
Then for the stitching.
So preparation is first,
and I have a single motif up here,
and I'll start a little bit above the center,
or you could stitch on the diagonal, if you'd like,
and just sew, let it stitch.
It's kind of no-hands stitching
because it takes care of itself,
and it's tacked down.
And after you have one tacked down--
whoop, we have some falling squares here--
you can go to another piece.
Now, perhaps you may want to consider putting a--
tack down in a small little square,
so I'll choose another design, in a single motif of it.
[machine beeps]
And it's little. It's much smaller.
So it would fit in that square.
Sometimes you can even make it smaller by changing
the stitch width or the stitch length
of your machine; just play around with the machine
and kind of stitch in that middle.
Hmm, I didn't hit it right in the middle,
but this is doodling; this is not exact sewing.
So I'll do the stitching, and you can see,
I have to trim some thread tails,
but if you do more stitching,
more planning than I just did in my little sample,
I highlighted them-- the areas
with a meandering double or triple straight stitch--
went back and forth, back and forth--
and then frame this on a stretch frame,
which we'll show you in the project book
that accompanies today's program.
Nothing difficult to do,
but rather fun to play with scraps of fabric, ravel them;
you could cut the edges with a pinking shears.
However you'd like to work with it,
but it's a great way of featuring decorative stitches
from your sewing machine.
As I mentioned earlier, many of us who sew or quilt
rarely use those decorative stitches
built in our machines.
These stitches, though, are just waiting to be tested
and featured in an upcoming project.
Nonchalantly testing out a variety of stitches on fabric
without care or direction is what we're going to do next.
Not only will you create an interesting art piece;
you'll see what magical stitches
your machine has in store for you.
There are many palettes that you can use
to feature your doodle stitches, and for this pillow,
you can see the decorative stitches
are in three of the quadrants of the pillow.
You could also use this as a little frame piece,
a greeting card.
You don't have to make
a big project.
Before designing the pillow,
I did some doodling.
Doodling on paper just to see,
what shape should I make the pillow?
And I added some dividing bars to give the eye a break
so that I could appreciate the decorative stitches
in the various sections, and you can see,
I chose this top section as the pillow design.
And I cut a 12-inch
square of fabric, divided it into sections,
and added some seam allowances,
and that's how I got the pattern,
which we will provide in the project book that comes--
that goes along with the program.
I've cut out the pattern pieces,
that you can see,
various colors
of the fabric.
We did add interfacing,
fusible interfacing
to the wrong side of each piece
so that the thread would not embed in the fabric,
and it would lie flat,
but I also found, with these very heavy satin stitches,
that to add a tear-away stabilizer works very well,
so we have two stabilizers added to the fabric,
and then on the fabric-- on some of the quadrants,
I added some chiffon because I didn't have three colors.
I kind of wanted a different look,
so that toned down the red,
and it gave me a nice look to use.
You can see, I've started to do some stitching,
and I'll give you some highlights of how I work
with this; this is not difficult.
This is easy.
But just find some attractive satin stitches,
which basically they all are,
which ones go well together, and here I have
on my screen, just some of the options
that you can choose,
and we're not going to do that one,
but you can just see what we have available.
There are just lots of options,
and I'll just choose a stitch like that.
Now, heavy satin stitching--
unlike the last stitches we did in the project.
And you may want to do some testing--
not "may," I'd highly recommend it.
Testing on some
scraps of fabric.
This had the chiffon added on the top,
and I found that some of the thread colors
that I chose just didn't cut it.
You know, this gray did not work with the other colorations,
so that allowed me to kind of single out
which colors of thread I could use.
We're using the same setup,
using bobbin thread
specifically for a bobbin in the bobbin case
and decorative thread in the needle, and I'm--
We'll just start to stitch this.
And then make sure you use an embroidery foot.
Your machine guide will tell you--
or your machine owner's manual
will tell you what foot to use,
and, uh, a embroidery foot is important
because it's hollowed out on the underside
so that these heavy satin stitches
can be stitched through this area.
And you can see, then, that will
glide through that area very easily.
My foot that I have on the machine
is an open-toe foot,
and it also has that carved-out hollow section.
And here's one big section that is stitched
through this area, and then you could stitch
some more through the middle.
I'm not gonna change threads right now
but just show you some other options of stitching.
When you have decorative stitches,
you could make your own pattern,
one right after another; not changing the design,
but rather than having the wave effect
going all the way across, we have a wave effect
and then a dot-dash, dot-dash,
and then another wave effect,
and many machines have the ability
of changing the sequence of the pattern,
so let's give that a try.
Let's see. Let's try this...
section, and we'll make it a single pattern
so that there's just one.
Let's just hit it again, and you can have a smaller one,
and let's try this guy, and you can--
you may not like what I have, but you can experiment with it,
and then we'll do another large--
whoop--that one, I don't like.
That's too big. Let's see, what did I use?
That would be a good thing to remember, wouldn't it?
There. And so through this all,
we have a variety of stitches,
so I'm just going to start to stitch this
just to show you that you can combine
and have--have a sampling.
It's more of a sampler row
than working with the same stitch
through that length.
This is no-hands sewing.
I'm hands-free sewing when I'm doing this,
and because it sews slowly--
so you could talk on the phone,
you could doodle, you could write a note,
you could do other things
while you are doing this stitching.
And don't be afraid
to allow the stitches to overlap each other.
It works out fine.
In fact, you may want to have your brightest color thread
to be the topstitching thread.
So as this is finishing, I'll just show you what I did
on this pillow.
We did some of the-- all the--
let's say, used the green thread
and did all the green stitching
on the variety of these components,
then changed to red,
and then changed to yellow and pink.
So there's a lot of interest that you can
show in your design
when you can combine decorative stitches,
so I hope that you will experiment, as we have done,
with the decorative stitches
and doodle to your heart's content
when you're working with your next sewing project.
♪
For more than a century,
the women of the Swan Creek Sewing Circle
have gathered on the first Wednesday of every month.
Every meeting has been chronicled.
Please welcome Mary Kay Clark,
who is the current president,
and she's going to give us a history
of this unique organization,
one of the oldest women's organizations in the country.
Welcome toSewing with Nancy, Mary Kay.
- Thank you. I'm very happy to be here, Nancy.
- This is a fascinating story, to me,
about the sewing circle that started over 100 years ago.
Give us a little history.
- Yes, I'll be very happy to.
It started in 1915 at my grandmother's house.
- Mm-hmm.
- In those days, the men had outings.
They were able to go to the mill, you know,
there were things they could do,
so it was started as a way
for the rural women to get together
and to socialize,
but they would also work on their mending or quilting.
- Sure. - Things of that nature.
And its main charter was neighborliness.
- Isn't that a sweet word? - Yes.
- And we have-- Mary Kay has brought along
several of the sewing books--
or--excuse me-- the history books,
and it started on December 1st,
and it told how, "We meet every Wednesday,"
and the penmanship throughout here
is beautiful.
Start at 1:00 in the afternoon.
And refreshments are to be provided by the hostess,
and they should be limited to five items of food.
[chuckles] - Yeah.
Wasn't that amazing?
- Yeah, and the group is to provide
the napkins and so forth.
So it's a lovely
chronicle of all these meetings,
and what a sweet thing. - Yes.
- And they also kept
great track of their events.
- Yes, so we have scrapbooks for the 100-year history.
- Uh-huh. - And this particular picture
is a float that was in the centennial parade,
and on the car, there's a picture
of a swan on the front of it, and, of course,
here's the swan and members were--
- Oh, and so you got the name from being in a school district.
- Right, the Swan Creek School District.
- Oh, very sweet. Dressed up, hats--ready to go.
And it started during World War I,
so you made bandages--they made bandages, I should say.
- Yeah. Yes. They made bandages for the soldiers.
They knitted hats and mittens
and scarves and, you know,
did lots of work; they sent
scrapbooks to the USO during World War II
to keep the men informed of the activities back home.
- And then the membership grew.
- Oh, my goodness, did it.
By the third meeting, there were over 30 members,
and so here's the hostess, cooking,
providing five food items, you know,
to feed this many women, so at that point,
they decided they had to limit membership
to descendants of the charter members.
- Very impressive.
And you are a descendant.
- Yes, I am. - How wonderful.
- Yeah, it started at my grandmother's home,
and her name is Amanda Culp,
and at that time, my grandfather said,
"This will never last."
- [laughs] Little did he know.
- Little did he know. Yeah.
- And now you have 14 members.
- That's correct.
And now we just have dessert
and coffee.
We don't have the full meal.
When it first started, dues were 5¢ a meeting.
- My goodness.
- Now we're up to $3 for the year, so...
- Okay, and you do some--
you do donations and-- - Oh, absolutely.
We do some fund-raisers, and then we do
donations to Ronald McDonald House,
the Red Cross, Salvation Army, The Road Home,
Three Gaits, which is a therapeutic horse association.
And so--yeah.
- And your members are-- range in ages.
- Yes, as a matter of fact,
I'm one of the youngest members,
and we have four members now who are in their 90s.
- And their mothers
or grandmothers were charter members,
so how sweet.
And you've done cookbooks.
This is an early cookbook.
- Right, that's from 1938.
- Uh-huh, we can make, uh,
port cake or fudge cake-- what a combination.
This has been used. Sour cream nut cake.
So, uh, really fun things.
- Right, we've done several cookbooks
over the years, mm-hmm,
as well as making quilts and other things.
- Well, you know, sewing brings people together,
and that's really what has happened here
for over 100 years in southwestern Wisconsin,
and we're really pleased to hear about your story.
And please tell the members how much we appreciate
learning and seeing--
and if you could only see all the chronicled books.
They're just--the history of this is so impressive
and the notes and-- oh, it's just a gem.
So thank you, Mary Kay.
- Thank you. I'm happy to
have been able to share this with everyone today.
- Oh, and our viewers,
I know, will enjoy listening to this as well.
Thank you. - Thank you.
- And thank you for being part ofSewing with Nancytoday.
If you want to watch any show onSewing with Nancy,
re-watch this interview
or our first show on doodle stitching,
you can go online and watch at NancyZieman.com.
We have a host of shows available for you there,
and you can also join us on Facebook or our blog
or other social media events.
We'll be back with a second and third program
on this topic soon.
Thanks for joining us.
Bye for now.
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