Fusing and musing

I want to try melting different manmade fabrics and burn them with the soldering iron and see what will happen.

It took longer than I thought it would,. Also had to clean the hot iron regularly with a rag, so it is messy as well.

Once experimentation was over, time to put it into practise.

Layered chiffon, purple crushed polyester, and red felt together. Traced a Celtic knot onto Press ‘n’ Seal and pressed that onto the top.

Using purple thread to secure the layers together, I quilted around the Celtic pattern, reverse stitching before moving to the next area of stitching. I cut the threads at the end.

Once stitch together, used the soldering iron to cut out some of the gaps in the pattern. Takes a long time, so decided to run the hot iron over part of the pattern to create texture, melting the layers together and the red felt showing through.
Also used the hot iron to “cut” the top chiffon layer away from the polyester.
In the end, sewed the knot onto a red background.

Iris has suggest incense sticks for burning holes in organza or chiffon. I will give that a try in the future.