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March 7, 2010 · 12:49 pm

The Scarlet Letter, Golden “A” embroidery

The embroidery is done on the Scarlet Letter project!

I embroidered krienik gold braid on the red velvet using stem stitch to outline and define the letter “A”.

The complete “A” here, in contrast, to the black side of the mat.

The red side of the mat is red velvet, the reverse is a black velvet-type fabric. The pieces are sewn together, then turned. I hand closed the last seam and topstitched the edges.

A custom piece in it’s final presentation…

Your life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun! –
smiles,
alicia in Hawaii
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February 19, 2010 · 12:37 pm

The Scarlet Letter

Well…it is Scarlet…and it is a Letter…lol.

Here’s an embroidery project. And although the thread is not going to make the “A” scarlet, it is going on a scarlet velvet fabric.

First, here is the outside and flipside fabric. Outter bound, red…Inner bound black-ish.

I would like to embroider a Gold thread “A” in the lower corner of the Scarlet fabric. My plan: to get a hot iron transfer design onto the red fabric, then embroider with gold thread.

To get a good sample of my signature “A”, I blocked off a workable size by folding some printing paper and creating some size boundaries. Then, I just wrote in several “A”s and picked one of the samples as my final “A”.

After picking out the “A” that I want, I got out my trusty Sulky Hot Iron Transfer Pen and some scissors.

To make the iron on transfer, trace the BACKSIDE/WRONGSIDE of the design with the Sulky Iron On Transfer Pen. Be sure to make the line dark so that it will transfer well. I used a brown pen here.

Now, cut apart the design area you need. Be sure that the sulky pen side, the reverse design is FACING the fabric. Here you see the reverse “A”.

Flip it over so that you see the RIGHTside of your design and place it where you want it. Here I have placed the “A” where I want it to be on the Scarlet fabric.

Heat the iron to cotton…apply heat to transfer…

and after a bit of heating and moving the iron to all the places in the design…

voila!

My Scarlet Letter is ready for embroidery! Now, let me get the gold thread ready!!!

Your life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun! –
smiles,
alicia in Hawaii
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July 5, 2008 · 5:34 pm

Embroidery Project – Small Snail Purse/Bag with Vintage Snail Embroidery, Ironed On Felt Part 2

I got the little snails on the white felt today! (If you didn’t see the beginnings of the snail project, I’ve listed the link(s) at the end of this post.)

Here are the snails that I found over at Flickr Group Hoop Love Vintage Transfers. I printed them with my printer, all on one page, and all on a sheet of plain printer paper. The designs are reversed so all you’ll have to do is trace this printed side with a transfer pen or pencil.

Here, you can see that the designs are sized to be 2.5″ by 3″ each.

This is the first time I’ve ever used a Sulky Iron-On Transfer Pen. I bought this one online at http://www.joggles.com. My order was completed, packaged and shipped within 1 day and I received my box via USPS Priority Mail (to Hawaii) within 3 days! I am very happy with Joggles and would recommend them to anyone looking for sewing or embroidery supplies. 😉 (I’ve already sent a second order to them…they sell felt!)

Test the pen. Follow the manufacturers directions and get the pen started. Here you see the nib mark that starts the ink along with a couple of trial scratches to see how wide and dark the lines will be. I’m impressed already!

Here are 2 snail designs traced with the Sulky Iron-On Transfer Pen.

Now, to get some fabric! The fabric can be 3″x4″, which you can see here. The ruler shows the outer edges of 3″x4″ and how the design can be centered on a fabric that size.

As I posted in Part 1, my idea was to create this in economical felt, just to prove that ANYONE can create something with embroidery, no matter what your economic spending level is. This is just a white felt rectangle bought at a craft store. There is nothing fancy about the craft felt. You can create your pieces on any fabric or felt that you’d like to try. I’d like to hear about a few trials on other fabrics.

Here are 6 little 3″x4″ rectangles of white felt to transfer the snail designs onto. Yes, the snails are a Days of Week snail set, and yes, there are 7 snails. I am saving the “Shop Day” snail design for a wallet. 😉

Here the design is ready to place on the felt fabric.

Here the transfer is design side down, centered on the felt fabric. ***I cover any exposed fabric with a thin cloth to protect the fabric from the hot iron.***

Place the hot iron (cotton setting) over the transfer. Don’t rub it around. I just let the iron sit there on top of the transfer for a while. I am usually taking pictures…lol…so I snap 4 pictures or so before I “peek” at the transfer. I would say that I leave the iron sitting like this for at least 30 seconds.

Move the iron over just a tiny bit and just “peek” at the corner of the transfer. Did the ink transfer dark enough onto the fabric? If so, you can lift the iron. If not, just put the corner back down and put the iron back onto the transfer to wait a bit longer. *I’ve never had to wait a second time yet…lol*