A pinch and a punch for the first of the month and no punch backs.
Ancient English saying
Finally! Here is the promised pocket tutorial. I'm going to do this in two parts.
Today is the embroidered fabric for the pocket and Friday I will show the making of the pocket.
This is the lovely pocket I'll be making, displayed around my slender, photoshoped waist (well I had to have some help, since the stripes are so obviously working against me).

1. I began by constructing a pieced, appliqued, embroidered and quilted fabric that I cut my pocket and backing from. Obviously you can skip all this and just make a pocket from plain or printed fabric but let's have some fun here.
I started out with some silk duponi which had gold threads on the warp and red on the weft. This stuff looks great when frayed and slashed. I mixed this with some old pieced quilt squares. I seamed them together allowing the frayed edge of the silk to fold to the right side.

2. Next I added another piece of silk, with the seams on the wrong side.

3. I've added a few stips of torn silk in different colours, stitching them to the backing fabric with a straight stitch and encouraging them to fray.
Then I have pinned a piece of checked cotton with a traced flower, on to the backing fabric.

4. The flower was machine embroidered to the backing fabric with a straight stitch and then the excess fabric was cut away.

5. I machine stiched the centre circle and cut away fabric.
6. Using a piece of white card with the pocket shape cut out of it, I framed different areas of the appliqued fabric to see which I liked.


7. When I selected an area I liked I traced the pocket pattern on to the fabric and cut it out of the fabric allowing plenty of seam allowance (which will shrink in the embroidery/quilting phase). I also cut out the same size of a muslin fabric to quilt the pocket to.

8. Finally I machine and hand stitched these fabrics together, adding sequins and beads.

This last picture gives you a better idea of what the fabric looks like.

See you Friday.
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