Saturday, February 22, 2014

Evolon Leaf Book

 I so enjoyed working with Evolon!  It takes paint well and dye and stamping.  This is the cover of my leaf themed booklet.
 I used Evolon for all the pages and it isn't too difficult to stitch through.  Here are a few autumn leaves being blown across the pages using the fly stitch.
Maple and oak leaf pages using the chain stitch, stem, seed, buttonhole, crossed buttonhole and french knots.
 Haven't done much lattice stitching and I need more practice.  Enjoyed stitching the 3 middle leaves using the fly stitch.
Evolon also takes well to melting/fusing with the soldering iron.  On the left hand page I used it to burn out all the leaf shapes. I put organza underneath the 2 smaller strips and a gold candy wrapper under the larger piece.  The vine and leaves on the right hand page were all cut out and fused onto the Evolon using the soldering iron as well.  Filled it in with seed stitching and marked the edges with the soldering iron too.  Very pleased with my small leaf booklet which is now housed in my leaf themed box :)

15 comments:

  1. Oh, wow. I've never seen Evolon before, but it looks like it's really versatile. This book came out beautifully.

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  2. you have certainly mastered the evolon Jenny, very inspiring, your leaves are beautiful

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  3. It is beautiful and I can't believe the co-incidence as I did something similar a couple of years ago. When I get back to France I will email you some pictures. A lot of work goes in to these books and yours is so lovely. xx

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  4. You have found a great material to work with! Beautiful stitches throughout.

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  5. What a lovely book. Your stitching is exceptional, as always. I've never heard of Evolon, will have to check it out!

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  6. What lovey fabric will have to have a go seeing the wonderful way you have used it.

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  7. I am not sure what Evolon is??? But it sure made a neat looking book!

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  8. I haven't heard of Evolon so will have to check it out. Your Leaf Book looks wonderful!

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  9. Gorgeous! I really like all these books you make, I'm sure they are wonderful to see and hold in real life. :)

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  10. The book is absolutely gorgeous. I love the subtlety of the leaves blowing across the page. I also love what you did with the soldering iron and candy wrappers....oh heck, I love it all.

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  11. I've heard of Evolon before but have not had the chance to give it a try. Great project Jenny and as always, lovely stitching.

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  12. Lovely book Jenny. I have some evolon [I think] and I have some other fabric too which I bought quite some time ago and now I can't remember which is which, guess I should have put a tag on it.

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