Add Hand Embellishment to Digitized Designs

摘要

Early in my art-to-wear career, my lavish hand embroideries caught the eye of rock musician Christine McVie, who commissioned from me a pair of heavily embellished jeans to wear on Fleet-wood Mac's concert tour. Pieces like that had to be spectacular to stand out on the concert stage, and hence were very time-consuming to make. These days, when I create embroidered ornaments for the one-of-a-kind garments I design, I take advantage of machine technology to speed up the process. I start out by embroidering one or more motifs, and then, with this as my base, let my imagination-and my hands-fly. Since I'm temperamentally incapable of repeating myself when I design, enhancing digitized motifs with hand embellishment is a natural way to expand the potential of machine embroidery. I consider any part of the motif or its back-ground fair game. If you love dimensional embroidery with texture and sparkle, or want to customize a motif to fit a specific project, consider giving your machine-embroidered designs that special, hands-on touch.