Beautiful roses. So glad you made this video. I’ve been making bullion roses for years but each one of mine is different from the other no matter how hard I try. ❤
Hi there, it seems to me that the video was very short somehow. I am eager to learn from your videos to make little dresses to my newborn granddaughter. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledges with all of us. I appreciated,
You are amazing and I’m just trying out your tip for joining the back to the to the front in one continuous panel.....i used to smock a lot when my kids were little but I’m 66 now and the brain doesn’t work quite as fast as it used to, (which is really annoying), and I wanted to try out the bullion for the first time ever and up popped your RU-vid video. Thank you so much for all your help with this...your a treasure! 🌺
I have difficulty with making the bullion rose on a smocked dress. Have you posted making a rose on a smocked dress? If not, can you please make a tutorial on making a bullion rose on a smocked item? I really enjoy your tutorials! Thanks!
Is "Floche" a brand of stranded cotton or silk embroidery floss? A way to help avoid tangles is to work with the "grain" of the thread. All threads have a grain or direction of twist. Some embroidery thread packets show you where to pull the thread from, this is so you will thread your needle with the end you pull out first, so you work with the grain not against it (which is more prone to tangles). Another way to tell the grain of your thread is to take a length and holding at both ends slide it side to side across the skin just above your upper lip. you will feel one way will be smooth and the other slightly furry feeling. you want to thread your needle so you are working WITH the grain rather than against. If you imagine the thread has little spines sticking out along the length you stitch so the spines are smoothed as you pull your thread through rather than spiked up as you pull your thread through. It definitely minimizes snarls and tangles when you work WITH the grain.
Hi Sarah. Thanks so much for the awesome video. I am wondering if you might be able to use a yarn swift and ball winder, instead of having to do braids. It’s just that when you took the hank of floche out of the box, it looked exactly like a yarn hank before I wind it into a ball from the swift. 😊
hey there, thanks! I don't think that would be a good idea since it's a delicate fiber, and the braids do a good job of keeping everything neat while taking up little space. but it's a neat idea, thanks!
Your videos are awesome! Where do you order your floshe and are there various sizes of it? I’ve always used DMC embroidery floss and I’d be interested to know where you get yours?
Hi Sarah, where do you buy the flouche thread? And when smocking or making the bullions, do you separate the threads and how many threads do you use for this? Thank you for any and all help you have such wonderful videos..
hey there, thanks so much! floche braids can be found here, sarahclassicsewing.com/collections/shop-floche-braids. and I just use one strand of floche (it doesn't really separate unlike floss). one strand is about 1.5-2x the width of floss. thanks again! :-)
🌹 At 5:58 and especially at 6:00 it appears that parts of some bullion roses are on top of parts of leaves like real leaves and roses. Did you embroider the green leaves *before* you embroidered the bullion roses? Thanks😊
I remember doing it afterwards, I generally do leaves after the flowers anyway. but you can get the leaves behind the flowers by bending the fabric to move the flower embroidery around. thanks!
For some reason, I’m having a difficult time understanding you and the subtitles are absolutely a mess. I wish I could understand what kind of fiber you are describing
The transcript is junk and as soon as you start I cannot tell what the name of the thread you are using. You say it several times but I don't know what you said so don't know what floss or whatever you are using. So Sad.
I have only used DMC here in Australia. I always thought you had to separate the floss not use in altogether in one strand? I smock that way too. Or am I totally wrong?
