The other day I showed you how using digital grounds to prepare your fabric can help stop the ink bleed when printing on certain types of fabric. You can find that post here.
The fabric has been treated with digital grounds to enhance the inkjet print, and although the hand of the fabric has a slightly stiffer feel to it, it is still quite soft and workable and I’ve added some machine quilting to outline the seed pods.
I can report that during quilting I had no broken needles and no broken threads; there was no discernible difference between quilting on this piece of fabric treated with digital grounds than any other piece of untreated fabric. Why? Because there are three different types of digital grounds and knowing which type to use for a particular fabric makes all the difference.
I’ve also added some hand embellishments – some french knots, a few seed stitches and some beads. It was also very easy to hand embellish.
Try Digital Grounds for yourself; the sample pack is quite inexpensive and ideal for beginners, and for online purchasing I recommend DickBlick.com. Find out why.
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