Soft Pottery - Mug Mats
Discover a new soft pottery technique. Learn the process and tips of making a useable and creative rope project. Following step by step instructions to create mug mats out of clothesline rope. This is a good class to get started with soft pottery.
Supplies:
- Sewing Machine in good working order, including power cord and foot pedal, and accessory tray,
- extension table or Sew Steady table (optional but extremely helpful to provide large flat surface.
- Clothesline rope – color of choice.
- Large Spool Thread,
- plenty of bobbins, pre-wound, with same thread to match Clothesline rope, or can be contrasting thread (2-3 bobbins needed),
- Jean/Denim needle or 90/14 Titanium, or 70/13 Sharp needle,
- Appropriate Zig Zag Foot, and
- Straight Stitch Foot — example A or B foot,
- Optional foot Clear B Edge Joining Foot.
- Scissors,
- Ruler,
- Straight Pins,
- Seam Ripper,
- Turning Tool or Tweezers,
- Wonder Clips, and
- Pen/Paper for notes.
- Quilting gloves (optional but helpful to reduce hand fatigue)
- Rope: 3/16" Rope Diamond Braid Cotton Clothesline. – 4 yards for one mug mat, cut into 12” pieces. Your choice of color. If desire a bigger size or making more mats than sample, additional rope will be required. Example: Two-color mats: 2 yards each color or 3, 12” pieces each color for one mat.
- Optional: if doing two colors of rope, decide on what color thread to attach all rows together with. Example red/green mug mat: used red thread and green thread separately to make individual rows, then copper gold to attach all rows together to make mat.
Clothesline rope available at Sew What! Inc. in pre-packages and in multiple colors.
If using prepackage rope, please wind rope into a ball and check for imperfections. Mountain Thread rope does not need to be.
Class minimum: 3 Class maximum: 8
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
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| Instructor: | Holly Gale |
| Instructor Bio: | Holly was taught to sew by her mother at the young age of 8. She learned by watching her mom pin patterns, helping cut the fabric, and turning the fabric into lovely garments. She also learned hand embroidery techniques, including crewel, needlepoint, and candle wicking. Holly started her machine embroidery journey with a Designer 1 in 2004 and has since added several machines to her sewing room. More recently, Holly has explored making useful and decorative items out of clothesline rope. This new passion has provided new avenues to share her creations with family and friends. When not creating, Holly enjoys camping with her husband and exploring the states to get ideas for her next projects. |
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