Friday, 30 January 2015

Make your own Thread Nets

So recently I bought 63 spools of Embroidery Thread from Designs By Sick.  These are mini King Spools.   It's great, but I need to transport the thread - so was looking around for a deal on Thread Nets.  I found some for sale in long strips so you can cut your own, but some of them had reviews of being too loose.  My main problem is that I need to transport them next weekend so don't necessarily have time for an order to reach me.

I got to thinking that I probably have something hanging around that I could make my own.

I did - some old panty hose that I am not going to use.


Step 1: 2 lines of stitching down the middle.

If you have a STRETCH STITCH - use that and you can skip Step 3.



Step 2: cut carefully between the stitching lines



Step 3: because I'm lazy and don't want to sew each one separately and backstitch each one - I just used some fray check each place I planned to cut to hold the stitches in place.  Time will tell if this is good enough or if you have used STRETCH STITCH then you should be able to skip this step.


Step 4: Cut apart into separate thread nets.



Voila!



I didn't need very long thread nets so I got 14 - 15 nets from each strip - 28 - 30 from each leg so that means close to 60 from a pair (assuming no runs).


A Christmas Alphabet

A Christmas Alphabet from http://lagrange-aux-loups.over-blog.com

NOTE: This is NOT my alphabet, and I never claimed it was.  I am only linking to the individual blog entries for each letter to make it easier for people to find since not everyone is an expert in navigating blog sites - especially when they are in different languages.




Christmas A
Christmas B
Christmas C
Christmas D
Christmas E
Christmas F

A Precious Moments Kids Redwork Alphabet

A Precious Moments Redwork Kids Alphabet from http://lagrange-aux-loups.over-blog.com

NOTE: This is NOT my alphabet, and I never claimed it was.  I am only linking to the individual blog entries for each letter to make it easier for people to find since not everyone is an expert in navigating blog sites - especially when they are in different languages.



Redwork A


Saturday, 24 January 2015

String Art Alphabet - Randomized - Complete

I've completed the Randomized version of the Alphabet.

Some of the pictures are a little blurry,  I may fix them in the daylight, but right now I just want to get these up on the web.

NOTE: The I isn't pictured - as it is just the first half of the H

Zigzag Outline










Running Stitch Outline














This alphabet is no longer free - you can find it for sale on my Craftsy site.

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Throwback Thursday - Flower Fairy Machine Embroidery Design

This Flower Fairy was designed back in 1998 for a Spark/Pathfinder camp.



I didn't stitch out the final outline - but it is included in the embroidery design file.  I just found with the software I was using at the time that if I kept the outline in the design it worked better for defining the other parts - I never intended to stitch the outline.



I have included only the .PES file.  It fits in the 4 x 4" hoop

Please read the copyright info in the download.


DOWNLOAD THE FLOWER AND FAIRY DESIGN