Thursday, April 19, 2012

Pimped up machine part 2

OK I'm done with my machine.  I've even taken it out and sewn with it.
 In part 1 I left the background white.  Well after looking at it long enough I felt I needed to color the background.  I used Setacolor paint that was watered down.  It beaded up so I took a paper towel and wiped it. I really liked the look so I did the rest of the machine.
Here is a close up of the flowers before they are all painted.
Here it is all painted.  Once the flowers were done I felt it needed another layer.  so I took a couple of my stencils and used Setacolor cobalt blue to stencil on the vines and leaves.  It still needed more so I used a script stencil with dark blue Setacolor paint.
then I went back over some of the flowers with the fine point black sharpie to add definition.  Then to seal it all in I sprayed a clear acrylic sealer in gloss finish.  I only put a few coats on so it is not shiny gloss like before I painted it.  It should stay better longer though.

Here it is all done and ready for service.

Sew see you later,
Bette

1 comment:

  1. Wow Bette, that is the prettiest sewing machine I have ever seen. Your creativity just does not stop, thanks for sharing:) Vicki

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