What are some methods for making spiders and webs?
My version of a spider web and spider. The web spokes were a gold thread radiating spokes from the corner, and couched down for the cross webs. Then, at the bottom of a long (gold) stitch down from the web, make a large X of same gold thread. Add two more “legs” to bottom of X; put a short straight stitch at end of each leg to make a “knee.” I sewed a round shiny black bead (3/8″) (got it in the embellishment swap, and I still have one left!!) smack in the middle of all the legs, and it looks like a spider hanging from the web. I never was too good at Biology, so this might have the wrong number of legs and no head, but it’s cute. (Barbara in East Marion, NY) ************** I’ve made smaller spiders by using an oval shaped bead as the body, a small round bead as the head, and then embroidering legs off of that. You can do the same idea using buttons. I’ve also embroidered them using a bullion stitch for the body. Like so much in CQ, whatever works for you is fine.(Susan Wells ) *******
