Thought we would upload pics of some relatively quick gifts we made up last week. Once you learn the basic embroidery stitches used in the redwork projects you can transfer them to other media. We needed some baby gifts in a pinch so we took some onesies, printed off names and images from a dingbat font we downloaded from Two Peas, and placed them under the top layer of the tee. We traced the letters and images with a water soluable transfer pen. (it disappears when wetted) then used a simple outline stitch over the tracing. That's it!
Stitching on the knit fabric is a bit tricky but not overly hard. If I do these again I will buy some fusible web to adhere to the back side of the stitching to protect it during laundering.
When uploading new bookmarks I found that Primrose Design Blog has been uploading stitching lessons complete with not just diagrams but PHOTOS of the stitches as they are worked. They are all listed under Stitch School so scroll down for them all.
Kim, your baby tees are adorable! Thank you so much for the links, too - I am very eager to learn how to sew and the Primrose Design blog has all those excellent instructions! Blessings!
Posted by: Dawn | November 29, 2006 at 12:48 PM
The tees are so cute. I have that Primrose Design site bookmarked right on that page. Her examples are lovely.
Posted by: Jennifer | November 29, 2006 at 01:40 PM
The little tees are so dainty and cute! I like quick little projects such as these.
Posted by: Jennifer | November 29, 2006 at 03:13 PM