oops!!!!!

 The adventure continues: albeit with some drama along the way.  
The next step required slashing the fabric between the lines of stitching.


I bought a special implement made for this task although 
in the past I have just used very sharp scissors.  The idea is

to slash the first 4 layers and leave the base fabric intact.  The special cutter does make this easier but you have to concentrate.  I was going along really well and then disaster struck.  Instead of cutting as described above I cut through the five layers.  I was quite a long way through the process and feeling pretty good about it.

Do the words "pride" and "fall" come to mind?  Well they do for me.

Anyway I have continued on and washed the slashed fabric in the machine with my towels and then dried it 
in the tumble drier.
This separates the layers and fluffs them up a bit.  I will brush them up a bit with a clothes brush to make them more fluffy and then decide what to do about the corner that no longer exists.  I made the gaps between rows quite wide on this piece.  The closer the rows the "neater" the result but I wanted to expose the layers quite a lot.


I do hope all this makes sense to those who are interested in trying this technique. 

My one piece of advice is concentrate.


Oh I just noticed my computer cable under the fabric.  I do not cut on that table or in fact near any cables.  That would be tempting fate.