Fill the small 50mL beaker to about 40 mL. Let's say we start off with the pH 6.5-10 paper. (If you happen to not have pH 6.5-10, use pH 1 to 14.) Dip the paper into the beaker with the tap water for just a couple of seconds. Then take it to the chart. For my water, it looks like the pH is between 6.8 and 7.1.
Target Areas of Fabric by Fussy Cutting. A fussy cut is a piece of fabric that's been cut to target a specific area of a print, rather than cutting the yardage into random pieces. How Are Fussy Cuts of Fabric Used? I Spy quilts can be made by cutting and sewing together all sorts of novelty and pictorial objects to showcase specific objects in a printed fabric.
Smocking stitches are done with regular embroidery thread. On silk clothes use silk thread and on cotton fabric use cotton thread. Colour of the thread â A simple colour scheme works well for smocking, which should look elegant raher than tacky. Pastel colours works best on light coloured fabric. Keep the thread ( two strands of the thread) near your fabric to see if it suits.