jaredjonz
New Member
WEBBING
This one's pretty straightforward. I traced the web pattern onto the fabric by taping the paper pattern and the fabric onto a window and then...tracing. Like so:
At first, I was using a red, fine-tip Sharpie, but it just wasn't showing up enough. I was trying to avoid having the lines show if I strayed from them with puff paint. I tried a couple of different options. I moved to a blue Sharpie, but that was too dark. With the finished web, I can still see those dots bleeding out from under the webbing, because the webbing isn't very thick. What I finally settled on that worked really well was a red overhead pen. It shows up well enough to follow while puff painting, but blends well enough that it doesn't stand out when it's not quite covered.
I applied the puff paint using an applicator with a fairly fine tip that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I knew that I was going to want something like that from some other builds that I've seen, but it was a pretty lucky find and really makes gives more consistent results.
I pinned each piece of fabric to a really large piece of cardboard that a friend gave me and painted each one. Many of the pieces ended up with slight flaws from air bubbles etc. Like a lot of other things, I'll just have to live with it. The weather was also really warm here, so I think that affected how the paint went on, though not necessarily negatively.
I left the parts of the webbing that will touch the seam unpainted so that they don't interfere with sewing. I figure that a serger wouldn't really have trouble with it, since it cuts the fabric anyway, but I decided not to risk it. I don't have time for things to go terribly wrong right at the finish line
Here's one piece a bit closer up:
This one's pretty straightforward. I traced the web pattern onto the fabric by taping the paper pattern and the fabric onto a window and then...tracing. Like so:
At first, I was using a red, fine-tip Sharpie, but it just wasn't showing up enough. I was trying to avoid having the lines show if I strayed from them with puff paint. I tried a couple of different options. I moved to a blue Sharpie, but that was too dark. With the finished web, I can still see those dots bleeding out from under the webbing, because the webbing isn't very thick. What I finally settled on that worked really well was a red overhead pen. It shows up well enough to follow while puff painting, but blends well enough that it doesn't stand out when it's not quite covered.
I applied the puff paint using an applicator with a fairly fine tip that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I knew that I was going to want something like that from some other builds that I've seen, but it was a pretty lucky find and really makes gives more consistent results.
I pinned each piece of fabric to a really large piece of cardboard that a friend gave me and painted each one. Many of the pieces ended up with slight flaws from air bubbles etc. Like a lot of other things, I'll just have to live with it. The weather was also really warm here, so I think that affected how the paint went on, though not necessarily negatively.
I left the parts of the webbing that will touch the seam unpainted so that they don't interfere with sewing. I figure that a serger wouldn't really have trouble with it, since it cuts the fabric anyway, but I decided not to risk it. I don't have time for things to go terribly wrong right at the finish line
Here's one piece a bit closer up:
