Embroidery Project – Small Snail Purse/Bag with Vintage Snail Embroidery, Crayons and Color Part 3

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The snails are bright and cheery!

Start by choosing some colors. For these snails, since they used in a design with neon lime green and fuchsia, they need to be bight and colorful!

When I color on fabric, I hold the fabric taut with my non coloring hand. This helps to keep the fabric still while I use short, quick coloring marks to color the fabric. The fabric does get a bit ‘rearranged’, however, after a while, the waxy crayon helps to make the fabric parts ’stick’ again to itself. It’s well coated before the ironing process.

Here’s the whole gang! The snails are a Days of the Week Vintage Embroidery Transfer. There are only 6 snails here because I am saving the 7th, “Shop Day” for the matching wallet design.

Here’s what they look like apart. There is a little white for highlights on some of the pictures. They are mostly dark and the iron on design is distorted some. We can always re-iron the design back onto the fabric to bring some of the details back after the ironing process.

Here is the basic process of ironing. Place the fabric between 2 blotters. I usually use printer paper, but I thought I’d try paper towels and see if they worked just as well. After sandwiching the fabric, set the hot iron (cotton setting) down on the blotter material and let it sit until you smell the wax melting.

Here is what you should end up with. Sometimes the blotter material will be very dark with wax. As you repeat this process, the blotter will get lighter and lighter.

Let’s see how the results turned out!

Here is the Before Ironing snail picture:

Here are the After Iron snail pictures:

Successful! They are still bright and cheery and not much color has dulled in the ironing. Some of the detail is fuzzy, but we can re-iron the transfer over the ironed color to get back some of the detail before embroidering with threads.

Now, we can choose a thread palette for the happy garden pals!

Your life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun!

*I’ve added a separate post with a “Tinting Fabric with Crayon” tutorial. There are more details there about tinting fabric with crayons.

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Find Small Snail Purse/Bag with Vintage Snail Embroidery Part 1 (Click Here)

Find My Iron On Transfer Tutorial (Click Here)

Find Flickr Group Hoop Love Vintage Transfers (Click Here)

Find Yahoo!Group Hand Embroidery (Click Here)

Find Hand Embroidery Group Blog (Click Here)

Find Hand Embroidery Group Summer Creativity Challenge (Click Here)

Find Stitchy Britches Blog (Click Here)

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Find Helen of Show Your Workings (Japanese Knot Bag Tutorial) (Click Here)

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