Our church makes 12 Advent bags each year and this year I volunteered to do an embroidery of the church on kitchen towels. Here are 9 of the 12 needed. I will have to do 3 more after work and then wrap all of them.
I scanned the drawing of the church from our church bulletin and took the .bmp into class for "Quiltworks" which will turn a drawing into stitches.
A lot of times I do the machine embroidery redwork without a stabilizer, but I wasn't happy with my first try at that (not pictured). Then I tried a waffle weave towel with a crisp paper type stabilizer, but I had to wet it to get all of the paper out and I didn't want to do that on 12 of them. Finally I went to Easy Tear lightweight stabilizer and it worked well. There was a lot of thread breakage with cotton embroidery thread, so each 7 minute embroidery took me about 15 minutes (or more) from hooping to finish.
Here are the cards from yesterday's post with the stitching done around the edges.
Hi, ho, hi, ho, it's off to work I go. I'm filling in for someone today and luckily Saturday is a short day at the store.
I scanned the drawing of the church from our church bulletin and took the .bmp into class for "Quiltworks" which will turn a drawing into stitches. A lot of times I do the machine embroidery redwork without a stabilizer, but I wasn't happy with my first try at that (not pictured). Then I tried a waffle weave towel with a crisp paper type stabilizer, but I had to wet it to get all of the paper out and I didn't want to do that on 12 of them. Finally I went to Easy Tear lightweight stabilizer and it worked well. There was a lot of thread breakage with cotton embroidery thread, so each 7 minute embroidery took me about 15 minutes (or more) from hooping to finish. Here are the cards from yesterday's post with the stitching done around the edges. Hi, ho, hi, ho, it's off to work I go. I'm filling in for someone today and luckily Saturday is a short day at the store.