{"id":1603,"date":"2018-07-03T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2018-07-04T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:48:11","slug":"logo-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/logo-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Logo embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embroidery is not my strongest textile technique. Sometimes, though, \u00a0an embroidery just needs to exist, and this was such a time. I needed to do some serious logo embroidery on a wool handling apron.<\/p>\n

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My wool handling apron with sheep logo. Photo by Dan Waltin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The logo<\/h1>\n

You may have noticed my logo, the sheep with the spiral fleece.<\/p>\n

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My retired father used to work as an art director and has made lots of logos and I asked him to make one for me. He presented several different ideas, but I fell for this one. It was finished in March and I am very fond of it.<\/p>\n

Looking at it, I realized that it wouldn’t be very difficult to make an embroidery of it. I had the perfect wool for embroidery yarn \u2013 a strong and shiny white Rya. You have seen it in the Spinning around the world<\/a> video I released in June. I spun it on a supported spindle and 2-plied it. In this blog post<\/a> you can read more about the wool and the spinning.<\/p>\n

Dyeing<\/h1>\n

The first step after spinning was getting the colour right. Dyeing is not my field of expertise, I dye when I need to. I use dyes from Greener Shades. I want to mix the colours myself, but I find it quite challenging. Sometimes I don’t see the colour until it’s all dyed. eventually I did get the colour right, but I dyed very little yarn, so it ended up very dark. On the second try I got it right.<\/p>\n

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Newly dyed and dried. Rya embroidery yarn and wet felted undercoat for the head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at the pictures now, though, I see that it has a bit too little red in it. I will have to live with that.<\/p>\n

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A pretty skein of Rya embroidery yarn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Logo embroidery<\/h1>\n

I borrowed an embroidery hoop from my friend Maria (who helped me with my medieval spinning video<\/a>). My original plan was to use a stem stitch \u2013 I thought it would look nice on the moving wool spiral. But the yarn was far too thick for the fine linen on the apron and it just looked like croquet hoops. So I picked it up and started again, this time with a simple backstitch. It didn’t make the yarn any thinner of course, but it was easier to make the curves of the spiral look better.<\/p>\n

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Backstitching away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The face was a bit tricky. Originally, I had planned to fill the face with embroidery, but then my friend Elaine suggested that I use a piece of felted wool instead. And that was av very good idea. The felted piece got a little thick, but I can live with that too.<\/p>\n

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A finished embroidery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My father suggested beads for the eyes, which was just right.<\/p>\n

I love my new apron and I feel like a proud entrepreneur when I wear it.<\/p>\n

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My wool handling apron with logo embroidery. Photo by Dan Waltin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy spinning!<\/p>\n

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