Embroidery Project-Original Sewing Pattern Purse-”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Ironing The Flip Side, Part 5

Time to color the back of the purse!

Keeping with the style of the purse front, out come the crayons. This transfer is from Jenny Hart, Sublime Stitching, Monkey Love design. Color the iron on transfer.

It doesn’t take very long to color. I outline the edges with a darker tone of a similar color and add some fun highlights and shadows. I also fill in the larger areas with several shades of similar color to add some interest to the overall coloring effect.

I added some purple to the shaded areas and some white to some highlighted areas. The iron will melt out the sharp contrast, but it does leave a subtle shading effect.

Here is the little monkey all colored, ready for the iron.

It’s time to iron. Cover design area with a sheet of paper. I also have a towel and a sheet of paper on the underside of the designed fabric. Now heat the iron to the cotton setting.

Press the hot iron to the paper. Smell the hot wax as the iron melts the crayon wax. You’ll see the colored wax come through through the paper as it melts. Remove the paper. Iron again with clean paper on top of the design until and repeat until the wax no longer transfers to the paper when ironed.

After ironing, you can see the shading and the highlight have been reduced from the pre-ironed coloring, but it is still subtly there. Here is the little curious monkey all ironed, tint set, and ready for embroidering!

Now, to figure out this zipper and get stitching.

Have you tried tinting fabric with crayons? Let us know how it’s coming out in the comment.

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

———–Helpful Information——–

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 1 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 2 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 3 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 4 (Click Here)

Find Giggleface Studios tutorial for tinting with crayons (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum with tinting with crayons information (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum about Sublime Stitching (Click Here)

Find Sublime Stitching, Jenny Hart (Click Here)

Embroidery Project-Original Sewing Pattern Purse-”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, The Flip Side, Part 4

Moving on to the back of the “Monkey Love” purse.

This is the purse front from the purse pattern I created and embellished with crayon back a few posts. (The links are the end of this entry if you need to look back at them.)

The back has been lonely and waiting to be made!

So, first, lay out the pattern and trace around the pattern shape.

Cut 1 of pellon on the fold. I used Decor Bond pellon.

Lay the pellon piece on the fabric piece. Line them up.

Press with a hot iron. I use a protective fabric between the iron and the pellon to keep the iron from ruining any of the underlying material.

Here the pellon is fused to the purse shape.

I think I would like a zipper pocket on this back side of the purse, so I am inserting a 7″ zipper later. To mark off the zipper, fold the shape in half lengthwise. I think I’d like my zipper 3″ from the purse’s top edge.

Mark off half the length of the zipper in the place where you’d like the zipper. My zipper is 7″, so I marked off between 3-3.5″ since I will re-measure for a more accurate line when I sew in the zipper.

Unfold the fabric and mark the other half of the line you just drew. This is the entire zipper line on he wrong side of your embroidery fabric.

Now, turn the fabric to the front and transfer the zipper line to the front of the fabric.

This is your design space with the zipper marked so that you can design around the zipper area.

I used Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching “Monkey Love” iron on transfers. I choose another monkey and two leaves.

Position your designs or iron on transfers.

Press a hot iron to the transfers.

And here it is! One monkey in place in the design space.

Here are two leaves in the design space as well.

I transfered the lines of the edges of the purse to the front side of the embroidery fabric. This gives you a clearer picture of the entire design space.

The “Monkey Love” purse now has a back. I’m off to color it with crayons to tint the fabric with crayon.

I hope you are planning and designing a few wonderful things. Please share them in your comments!

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

———–Helpful Information——–

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 1 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 2 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 3 (Click Here)

Find Giggleface Studios tutorial for tinting with crayons (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum with tinting with crayons information (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum about Sublime Stitching (Click Here)

Find Sublime Stitching, Jenny Hart (Click Here)

Embroidery Project-Original Sewing Pattern Purse-”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 3

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 1 (Click Here)

Find ”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 2 (Click Here)

Hot off the iron! I just finished ironning the monkeys! It’s exciting! I feel like a live broadcast!

The monkeys, as we knew them yesterday, colored and awaiting the melting process:

The ominous iron. Heating…monkeys waiting for the hot sauna.

Making the paper sandwhich…and sheet of paper under the monkey material, and a sheet covering the monkey material.

Iron heated to “Really Hot”, cotton.

One last peek at the monkeys before the iron changes them forever!

Hot iron pressing down hard on the monkeys.

The tension grows. Will they make it? How much will they change? Will the highlight and shadow stay? Will the wax melt and make a mess?

Not much happens.

They smell.

The wax heats and melts. There is a strong odor of …melted wax… I hope the iron is still usable after all this?!

Some color starts to bleed through the paper!!

Here’s the paper!

How are the monkeys? Let’s take a look.Wh

Whew! They made it! I thought the details might all smudge together and get fuzzy…or the wax would melt and add smudges everywhere…or the colors would appear differently than with just the raw coloring…but, no! They seem clear. They seem the right color. (The strong white highlight is gone, but it is melted in.)

I thought they needed another pressing. So, here is the second paper.

Don’t search too long. I couldn’t see ANY wax remnant on the second paper pressed and ironed.

Take a peek UNDER the monkeys. Did they leave any wax UNDER them?

I don’t see any wax or color on the back of the material or on the bottom blotter paper. I hope that is alright and the tint/color will stay in the material.

Here is the final tint on the fabric after 2 pressings:

Now to set it up with the QSnaps and get it ready for embroidering.

Hubby made a QSnap holder for me. It’s a stand for hands free embroidery. I don’t have to hold the hoop while stitching. We saw a floor model in a store and he vowed to make one that would work with my style of stitching since I like to sit cross-legged anywhere and everywhere! I will post and write about the stand next!

Whoo hoo! I’m off to stitch the monkeys! I had a few emails saying that people were going to try the tint with crayon technique! Whoo hoo, they are trying it! Your life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun!

Find Giggleface Studios tutorial for tinting with crayons (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum with tinting with crayons information (Click Here)

Find Craftster forum about Sublime Stitching (Click Here)

Find Sublime Stitching, Jenny Hart (Click Here)

Embroidery Project-Original Sewing Pattern Purse-”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitching, Part 2

Whoo hoo! Coloring is fun! Crayola’s nifty 96 pak crayon box has colors that I wouldn’t have ever thought of…although…come to think of it, I am colorblind. lol

The “Sublime Stitching-Monkey Love” monkeys got their coats.

I followed the tutorial from Giggleface Studios. I outlined the areas then cross hatched some colors for filling in the spaces.

Here are the browns for the monkeys.

Here are the greens for the vines and leaves.

I added white for some highlights…

and purple for some shadows… (I learned, when painting, to mix adjacent colors to make the shadow, or use purple as a shadow instead of black. I thought I’d try it here and see what happens.)

There is purple under the ‘boy’s’ chin and under the rump of the ‘girl’ sitting on the vine. I added a little in the center of each leaf too.

Now, they are waiting for the iron. I almost hate to put them under the iron. I am ironing them today. Will they survive the melt-fest?! I’m so scared. What will they look like tomorrow?

Want to try it out? Get your crayons…get some fabric…get coloring. You life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun!

Find “Sublime Stitching, Monkey Love” part 1 – Click Here

Embroidery Project-Original Sewing Pattern Purse-”Monkey Love” Sublime Stitchery, Part 1

*yes, my post says Sublime StitchERY. It should say Sublime StitchING. The link is posted too many places to fix it and republish, so I am adding this note here *

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I am a Monkey. Born in the year of the Monkey. Need I say more…lol.

I discovered these little transfers in my local Ben Franklin Crafts store.

I was good.

I passed them up.

No, nope, no. Not going to do a monkey.

Then, I found Craftster.

Bad, bad, Craftster.

While searching around in the stitchery haven there, I found many interpretations of the “Monkey Love” set of transfer patterns. And…the monkeys were calling me.

So, I broke down. I bought it.

Then, I just had to have something to put the little monkeys on, right? I want it on something that everyone will see. Not something hidden away…unused. That is not monkey fun.

A purse. Yup. That is what the monkeys need.

Well, I had some canvas. I had a pencil.

I drew a pursey shape. Traced it out on paper. Traced that out on the canvas. Cut some pellon. Fused on the pellon.

Got the “Monkey Love” transfers out. Fondled them a bit. Cut out a few little designs.

And…Ironed away.

The plan is to tint the fabric with crayons, then embroider. I got this idea from Craftster as well. [Warning: if you want to find hundreds of fun and exciting projects, do NOT go to craftster... no, nope, no...you'll be sorry...]

*sneaking away quietly to color the monkeys with crayons…*

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

“Monkey Love” pattern by Jenny Hart at Sublime Stitching, beware…there are many, many patterns.

I learned about tinting with crayons from Craftster, on this thread. “How to tint fabric with crayons” can be found in a tutorial on this blog: Giggleface Studios