I finished another t-shirt for Anya. She’s been enamored with horses lately, so my timing is perfect.
Tag: embroidery
New Embroidery Project
I finally got larger blank t-shirts for Anya. Anya and I will spend an hour or two in the evening relaxing and embroidering the shirts. About nine shirt-sized images fit on a 8.5″x11″ sheet of dissolving, printable transfer paper. I’ll create a single image and arrange all of the embroidery patterns to fill the page (needs to be black lines on a white background as the printout is fuzzy, and color or gray-scale makes a big mess). Cut out one image, stick it onto a shirt, add a hoop (I love Darice’s spring tension hoops!), and go.
I taught Anya to back-stitching along lines last year, and I taught her how to make a satin stitch today. She’s working on a cute little owl. I’m working on this hand embroidery pattern from Urban Threads. Should be finished tomorrow too!
A is for Anya
Another thread painting project — the ‘A’ has an ombre effect.
Thread Painting – Butterfly Tshirt
I’ve seen various iterations of needle painting (thread painting, needle shading) and am finally trying it. While the technique isn’t difficult, it is seriously time consuming. Fortunately, Anya loves the butterfly thus far. I’ll probably make another shirt or two using this technique … but start with a size 6 or 7 shirt so she gets years of wearing it (and most of the embroidered shirts will either become a t-shirt quilt or appliqué patches on a larger shirt)
Halloween T-shirt
Anya will soak the shirt later today to dissolve the transfer paper, so it’s not quite done. But here’s her Halloween kitten t-shirt. The pattern is from Urban Threads — an awesome place for hand and machine embroidery patterns.
