Friday, May 05, 2006

How to make a fabric collage

In a previous post I showed the apron I made following the yellow and white theme of April's tie one on. Several preople asked me how did I make this...what is the technique I used...and I thought, well I didn't use any technique, I just put pieces of fabric together and figured it out as I made it! But the truth is that following a plan and a logic sequence sewing the pieces of fabric would have made my life way easier. For that reason I decided to make a small tutorial about how to do this fabric collage, which actually will help me in future projects.

En un mensaje anterior mostre un mandil que hice siguiendo el tema amarillo-blanco del mes de Abril de "tie one on". Varias personas me preguntaron como lo hice...que tecnica use...y pense, no use ninguna tecnica, simplemente puse los trozos juntos y fui resolviendo los porblemas que surgian segun progresaba! Pero la verdad es que si tienes un plan y una secuencia logica de como coser las piezas es mucho mas facil. Por eso, he decidido hacer una pequenha explicacion de como hacer este collage de telas, que de hecho me ayudara en proyectos futuros.

Here is how it goes:
Asi es como se hace:

1- First you choose multiple fabrics that you would like to combine and cut squares and rectangules of different sizes without paying too much attention to how they will combine.

1- Primero eliges varias telas que te gustaria combinar y cortas cuadrados y rectangulos de diferentes tamanhos sin prestar atencion de como los vas a combinar


2- The pieces are organized in blocks so that the colors combine properly and also leaving axes between the blocks as shown in the following picture:

2- Los trozos se organizan en bloques de manera que los colores combinen y dejando unos ejes entre los bloques como se muestra en la siguiente figura:


3- The pieces are put together now to see how the final result will be, making sure there are no spaces in between blocks. In this case I see there is a space on the top part of the collage.

3- Las piezas se ponen juntas para ver el resultado final, y para asegurarse de que no hay espacios entre los bloques. En este caso veo que hay un espacio en la parte de arriba del collage.



4- Another piece of fabric is needed on top in order to cover that whole (the red one).

4- Se necesita otro trozo de tela arriba para cubrir el agujero (la pieza roja)


5- The blocks are separated again and rearraned if necessary and then the pieces within each block are sewn together making sure there is a 1/4 inch unstitched space at the ends. Then the pieces are ironed leaving the seams towards the darker fabric.

5- Los bloques son separados de nuevo volviendo a asignar los bloques en caso de que haya anhadido piezas nuevas y entonces las piezas de dentro de cada bloque se coses dejando 0.5 cm sin coser en cada esquina. Entonces las telas se planchan dejando las costuras hacia las telas mas oscuras.


6-Now the blocks that have a common axes are sewn.

6- Ahora los bloques que tienen un eje comun se cosen.


7-It is finished by sewing all the blocks together.

7- Se acaba cosiendo todos los bloques juntos.



8- Now 1/4 inch of each border is folded and ironed and then the collage can be sewn on top of another fabric to make it more structured.

8- Ahora se doblan 0.5 cm de los bordes y se planchan para poder coserlo encima de otra tela que le de mas estructura.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a great tutorial.
Thank you.
: )

woof nanny said...

Thank you so much for showing me this--it's totally different than what I assumed, so I'm glad to see it. I thought you sewed some pieces atop others, but instead you just plan it out in advance. I am so going to do this. Soon. And thanks for the email from flickr--I didn't even know you could do that! Interesting that you post in two languages. Why is that?