I am so excited to share this project with you! We learned now to make embroidered napkins in Craft Academy.
For the actual napkins we learned how to sew mitered corners. It's a lot easier than I thought it would be. I will definitely be using that sewing technique again for future projects.
Then we learned how to embroider them!
At first I was just going to write some words in the corner and embroider them. But then I saw these cute little coffee themed iron on patterns so I decided to go for it. I thought they were going to be tiny like they were on the package so I was just going to embroider one of them on a corner of each napkin. They were HUGE!! They took up almost the whole napkin. Oops! I thought it would be a great learning experience anyway so I went ahead and transferred a different pattern onto each napkin. I have only finished one so far. I'll try to finish the other one this week.
What do you think? I know it is far from perfect. The stitches are not even and the pattern isn't perfect, but I'm pretty proud of myself for learning how to do it. :-) With more and more practice I'm sure my embroidery will improve.
I really enjoyed doing this project a lot. I can't wait to try more embroidery projects.
I'm going to finish my other napkin using white thread since it's dark blue, too. My mom showed me a second type of embroidery stitch so I will probably try that stitch on the next one to see which one I like the best. Then I'm going to get a lighter colored fabric and different colored threads to finish off all of the other patterns. I can't wait!
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I was talking to my Craft Academy classmate Bridget from Love Peace Family last night about embroidery and I loved the way she described it so much that I just had to share. She described it as drawing with thread. I thought that was such a perfect explanation for embroidery. It is exactly like drawing with thread!
I love it! :-)
3 comments:
Great job Marci. I love how it turned out. You did a fantastic job. It will get easier and easier. NICE JOB!!!!!!!
this is SERIOUSLY awesome! I mean it! I think you see more of the mistakes and issues than the rest of us. I think they are awesome! Super proud of you!!!
Holy smokes!!! This is soooo awesome!
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