Slow Stitching Tutorial | How to Do Slow Stitching for Beginners | Fabric Collage by Daniela Mellen

What is slow stitching? What do you need for slow stitching? How to do slow stitching? Find out all these answers in this slow stitching tutorial for beginners with mixed media artist, Daniela Mellen. This is an easy slow stitching technique of fabric collage for beginners.

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Slow stitching is a process of sewing fabric pieces together in a way that is creative and soothing. The finished piece of a fabric collage isn't traditional like something a quilter or a seamstress would make, because the goal is in a specific result. But, instead, the process of creating is the main focus of slow stitching pieces.

All begin with the fabric collage, but unlike a paper collage, we don't use glue to attach the pieces together, instead, we sew them with deliberate stitches, and these stitches can be exact or precise, or whimsical, and unexpected, or even completely made up. These fabric collages are slowly stitched together not following a set pattern, instead, entire pieces follow prompts, or themes, sometimes from other textile artists, or they can be created without any direction.

The beauty of slow stitching is that if you have an interest in creating a fabric piece, anyone can. In this video, I'll show the absolute basics of slow stitching for beginners.

For starting the fabric collage with a simple, prompt, use three pieces of scraps. We start our piece with our base fabric, this can be any fabric you have cut to three by four inches in the size you want. The piece to have some body, so you can use a piece of quilt, or you can layer a piece of batting underneath your fabric to make it thicker, or you can use just two layers of fabric either commercial fabric something from a charm square, or even repurposed clothing. I'm going to start with a piece of quilted fabric, I find bits of pieces of fabric scraps, I prefer sewing with cotton fabrics, but feel free to try sewing with other materials even paper, or leather. The prompt is to choose three scraps of fabric, so I want to select ones that look good together, and I cut them to the size that I like. Sometimes I fray the edges for added texture and interest these scraps can be all different sizes, and that's up to you.

I design where I want them to go in the fabric collage. When I'm happy with the layout of the fabric collage, I pin them in place on my quilted fabric. To stitch them together, I'll show you a basic stitch, the stab stitch.

Start by threading your needle. You can use cotton thread quilting thread or embroidery floss. Each thread has its own thickness and color, so the selection is up to you. Just make sure the thread will fit inside the eye of the needle.

And, for further explanation, watch this video till the end, here is a simple slow stitching tutorial for beginners.

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