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Girl Popcorn, Treehouse Brooklyn, Embroidery Lesson, Thread Heads
A viewer question takes us to the home of Girl Popcorn designer Julie Dunbar for a lesson in freehand embroidery, and to the local DIY boutique where she sells her clothing.
Tags : lesson, embroidery, brooklyn, embroider, dunbar, julie, popcorn, girl, house, tree, treehouse, boutique
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LOVE it! I should get me one of those :-)
That was really awesome! but, i would like ROB and CORINNE to do more projects for us, even though i do like the little buiznesses projects.
awesome episode, but is it necessary to buy one of those free hand foot or stifling foot things?
Stippling foot, I think?
I have made a felt patch with just my normal sewing machine, but I used a tight satin stitch, and really took my time with it. I drew my image with a sharpie, and "traced" it with the stitching.
I definitely need that stabilizer, though! I really could have used it.
Oh, and some machines come with a free hand foot anyway. You might have one and not even know it, if you have a machine. Check your manual to see what the crazy extra feet are. :-) Good luck!
The polo shirt girl is the cutest! "the culprit...the problem." I love her.
Rob, that guy is totally a basketball player, NOT a monk. You crazy.
Great episode guys!!!
Girl Popcorn's pad is totally rad!
Hi!
I'm from Portugal.
I love Threadbags, here in portugal there is nothing like this.
keep going with it!
:)
Flapi? :D
Great episode. I just didn't quite undesrtand if that was a regular sewing machine or an embroydery machine... hummm... I'll watch again.
i thought she just used a regular sewing machine with an attachment.
cool, keep up the good work!
that was a regular sewing machine with a special attachement
Thanks!
Now to try and find what that is in may own language xD
YAY! I've been wondering how to do this! Thanks, Girl Popcorn!!!
*adds washable stabilizer to list of stuff to get*
Hey, guys where would you buy that dissolvable paper? Do they carry it at like a Joann's Fabric type of place?
They do carry it at Joannes, they even carry it at Hobby Lobby
A regular sewing machine. Any machine will do this type of embroidery, it's the sewer that does the work. An Embroidery machine does pre-programed designs that are designed on a computer. The sewer just services the machine, changes thread color etc.
Thanks! I really didn't know that. I do everything by hand and I must confess I didn't know the difference between them, and thought they worked pretty much in a similar fashion.
IMPORTANT INFO. - What was missing in the instructions was that you have to drop the FEEDDOGS down on your machine. Yes you can drag the material back and forth but you could ruin you machine and you shorten it's life. Even though you drop the feed dog you need to put the foot down otherwise you end up with a nest on the back of the material. I also free-motion without any foot on at all but you need practice and need to be extra careful of your fingers. Another tip - there are lots of ways of transferring the design onto the material, including dissolving pens or Solvy. Put 'free-motion embroidery' or 'thread painting' into a search engine and a ton of sites will come up. As for that shirt - dye it, cut it, applique it, print images onto another piece of material on your computer and sew on, stencil it, bead it - if all else fails make them into bags and sell them!
PS I've already made 2 pidge scarves and those that saw them want one! Keep up the good work. Debbs in the UK
really cool idea with the embroidery, but it doesn't seem like you guys really helped the girl with her problem. Sure she can now have an embroidered polo shirt, but it is still a polo shirt.
I get the impression that this girl wants to get away from the preppy look she once had to conform to. Embroidery doesn't seem like enough.
I think we need to get the scissors out!
How to take the preppy out of the polo? I'd say, refashion the collar. Maybe remove it, possibly incorporating it in the shirt in some other manner.
i guess i can sorta agree with that. maybe she could do some sorta polo hybrid. like cut and combine the white and black polos or swap the collars. maybe she could even take the collars and reattach as arm cuffs.
i like to consider myself a wee bit of a machine embroidery expert (i say expert, i have no certificates to prove this, i just do it a lot)
and i'd say that the foot is pretty necessary unless you're into self mutilation.
this is the photograph from the day i decided i didn't need to and couldn't be bothered to attach my foot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/neliroan/zipzipow.jpg
not so good.
also on my machine which is a Janome 7025, a pretty good model, I bought a special bobbin case to go in it because free machine embroidery puts a lot of stress on the machine engine and the bobbins need to be of a different setting to normal sewing, and so it's easier to just swap your bobbin cases than do something posh with a screwdriver every time.
i love free machine embroidery oh so!
oh anddd, if you can't find the dissolvable paper you can always use greaseproof paper or tracing paper. they don't wash away like that one, but you can pretty much pull most of it away. and if you do want a washable paper or fabric there's a dissolvable fabric called soluvose you could use.
Hey,I also have the Janome 7025. I really need to do free machine embroidery for my college work, so I was hoping you could give me a few tips!
To set it up for free machine embroidery do I just drop the feed dog, use a foot (your pic has convinced me!)..the zig zag one? and use a straight stitch?
pleeeease help me, I dont want to damage my hand or the machine!!
Thanks
Lea
this epp is pretty cool. i luv the embroidery. i bet i can do that to some of my polos. i also luv the hat corinne was wearing!!! did you knit that from a pattern found on the internet? because i saw a free hat pattern somewhere that looked similar to that.
I totally love Treehouse Brooklyn! It's exactly what one of my little fanasties of 'if i could run a business, what would it be'. But i suck at business and sick-with-it-ness. Hence why half my projects go unfinished. Great show guys! The embroiderypedal made much more sense as to why i kept breaking my needles.
its spring time, and i totally and utterly HATE buying bathing suits; its like 50 bucks for a bottom! any tips for making a bathing suit? or even a bottom wrap?
well they did an epp where they made the bathing suit from generation t. i forget which one it is.
Wow, I love the free hand embroidery. I am so going to eventually get that... free hand.... thing.
i checked my sewing machine manual and it said i could buy a quilting foot that looked exactly like the free hand foot are they the same thing??
Quilting feet are indeed the same thing, in fact I learned that foot is called a quilting foot when I was first introduced to it.
about how much would that cost?
Wow, just to ask, did you guys get new filming equipment? Because the clip just seemed much more sharper!
And I love how you had an embroidery video! That's so awesome. Does anyone knwo where I could pick up that paper? I'm working with a few friends to make patches for our winter percussion group.
What happened to Fashion Enemy?? Not that I'm complaining, but I really liked those episodes, they were slightly different from the regular episodes.
I wanted to know too.. ( >_
Great episode!
Is any one else having a problem with the itunes subscription? Mine is saying that the connection is off.
G'day thread heads i like how you all come up with these wiked ideas for clothes i neva thought of doing stuff that way
so anyway i live in Sydney Australia and wondered if you could do sumthin spesh about the great land down under
cya mates
Luv the scarf and tam combo. How about a lead to THAT pattern.
THANX
thats exactly what i'm thinking.
wow...that machine embroidery is gonna take some practice...(The Sewthern Belle goes scrounging round her machines to see if she has a free hand attachment)
I just want to add my two cents: yes, you need a machine that will allow you to drop your feed dogs. Also using a ballpoint needle will make this project much less of a headache.
But I am totally inspired and can't wait to try this out!
I love the free hand embroidery! And how great is the octopus bag on Girl Popcorn's site! Loves it!
Thank you so much for doing this show!! I've been dying to find out about freehand embroidery on a regular sewing machine and it was explained so clearly!! Thank You!!
Guys I love you show!!! I dyi whenever possible. I just started refashioning old clothes lately and think that I may be ready to create an item from a pattern soon, problem is I have no Idea what kind of material I should use! Any suggestions, maybe you can make a segment where you cover the basics of picking the perfect fabric for a perfect project. Love ya!!!!
hello threadheads,
Do you have any advice for when the fabric you are sewing frays a lot. Do you use the fray glue or a zig zag stitch to fix this mess..i am wondering because I ruined a silk corset top that way. Thanks
I'm always coming back for more! I love it! Keep up the good work ...progress for me ! got the camera now just need to show ya'll what i've been making!
I'm pretty sure that what Julie (girl popcorn) said about copyright is wrong. Altering an image (to be a line drawing) is still copyright infringement. One of the rights that you get with copyright is the right to alter your 'work', and in most cases this right is denied to other people.
Threadbanger, you best check this out.
very cool. how bouts some ideas for turtlenecks? i luv em, but then they get all stretched out and the color fades. Also, i'm dying to make a pair of pants into a pair of knickers (short, cuffed pants, not underwear.) any ideas? Thanks!
lol @ copyright removal.. Can't wait till she gets sued
Technically the image would be altered once its put on the shirt cause the lines and shapes are slightly different....right ?
-rob
Create and Destroy: She said she altered it in photoshop and then put in on the shirt. The basic rule for using other peoples work is *don't* unless you have been given permission by the copyright owner.
once you turn something into a vector drawing, it is 'yours', no matter who drew it first. techincally...you traced it with your own hand, so...i doubt she'll get sued anytime soon. thats why people can sell knock offs of name brands with practically the same logo.
Awesome! i needed something to do with my old uniforms!
I just started a clothing website, and I use cafepress.com. I would make all of the clothes myself. But I don't understand how to do all of the printing. Could you make a video and show some cheap ways to put printings on shirts? Thank you.
Loved this! all I need is that foot!
Loved the inventive machine embroidery and I don't even sew. I watch you guys because your bitchin.
Please do a show on CROCHET, with natural fibers, organics, plant fibers. Crochet seems like Bastard of the fiber arts. Can you elevate the boldness of crochet?
I use a vintage singer 99k and I can't seem to find a feed cover which will fit! Does anyone know how to DIY a feed cover so I can try my hand a free-motion embriodery?
that special foot thing looks scary.
SIMPLY LOVE IT....
I THINK I'M in HEAVEN now...
I will be doing this free style embroidery you can bet on that!
LOVE YOU BANGERS!!!!!!!!!
Hi, i have a question that doesn't have anytrhing to do with the proyect but I din't now were else to post it. i'm planning to travel to the U.s on july. I'm going to be in New jersey, new york And Philadelphia so I want some recomendations for places to visit when I get there. Im gona be there for 2 or 3 weeks, no more, so I want to plan were to go with time. i hope you can help me with these. thanks.
LOVE her scarf! omg could u telll me how to make it or where to buy it? I'm in LOVE!!
HELP! i have all the tools except i don't know how to reduce the image to lining!!
Wow, girlpopcorn. I watched you on the marths stewart show today and i was like... i've seen her somewhere before lol. I love your designs but i feel so bad for you when marths wouldn't let you say one whole sentence without interrupting.
wow, i'm really interested in the free handa embroidery she does with a sewing marchine. i get pics out of magerzines of model for mine. but they don't look nearly as good! girlpopcorn and threadbanger are the coolest!
i saw her on Martha! she looks like she had more fun with thread heads though.... lol