SewWitty

I’ve been working on some things for my store.

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I’m pleased with how the Elephant T-Shirt turned out. I have more of this fabric with different coloured animals and I plan to make a few of these T-Shirts with circles as well as hearts.

Feel free to email me (info@excessivelydiverted.com) if you’re interested in one (it will take me a while to update my store).

 

I’m making embroidered towels for a friend (see my store for other stuff).

The font is verdana. I digitised it using a very old piece of software called Scansoft (I picked it out of the discount bin at my local Janome store). It creates designs in the old .sew format, so I converted to .jef in Embird and combined the letters for each name into one design.

I then put the designs on my USB stick, transfer to my sewing machine and sew them out.

I then cut out the letters.

And finally attach the letters.

I use a basting spray to hold the letters in place temporarily and the purple masking tape to create a straight line.

I love the look of cross stitch, but simply don’t have the time (or patience) to make them by hand. I made the one above using my Janome 350e. I used a cross stitch design program to make the design (it’s one that saves into machine format) and Embird to convert the design into the Janome jef format.

The base fabric is calico and I used an iron-on pellon as the stabiliser. The finished size is 107.4mm by 155mm. I’m very pleased with the results.

I plan to add them to my store. I can alter the name and date easily. I will swap the pink text and border with blue for boys.

Another birthday card – sorry about the image my camera is out of action so I used the scanner.