I just made a small pillow case for my grandson for a small pillow that I have had forever. I would use the transfers to make more pillow cases for my grandson's. I love the vintage look these designs have.
I would love to put the little dog cowboy designs on the baby bumper pads that I am making for my future great- nephew.! I have always had horses and my nephew grew up riding them. He would love them on his future son's baby bedding!
I wold use it to make new tea towels for my kitchen, to replace my old ones that my grandmother stitched for me. I held off using them for over 15 years because I was afraid to ruin them, but I forgot to tell my husband that!
Young lady I would use iron transfers on pillow cases. I would in large the picture and off to work on it for days. I would even use glass beads. A lot of work but the end results outstanding. Have a nice weekend to come.
if embroidery is in a frame like a hoop or something than you can cover it and make it look nice. for something like a towel, it usually just goes unfinished so the back side doesn't look as nice and neat but that's just how it is. If you look at all the vintage towels and handkerchiefs with hand embroidery at an antique store, and look at the back, it's the same way. We just pretend it doesn't exist and keep the towel folded so you only see the right side.
I've never seen any transfers that would work on dark fabric, but I understand what you're saying. It can be pretty frustrating if you want to embroider on something dark blue or black. Luckily, there is a solution but you'll need a printer and scanner. Take your embroidery image and scan it or pull up on image on your computer. Print it on the right side of pellon's stick-n-washaway (www.joann.com/542s-stick-n-washaway-%E2%80%94-5-sheets/12142311.html). This product conveniently comes in a 8 1/2 X 11" size so it fits in standard printer. After it prints on the textured side (not the paper side), roughly around your image, peel off the paper backing and stick it to your fabric. Now you can just embroider your image as normal. When you finish, you'll need to run the embroidery under water and you'll notice the stabilizer will start to washaway like magic, leaving just your stitches behind. I've used this technique several times and it works like a charm :)
songbyrd0001 I've never really seen anyone back it before so I don't think it's typical. I guess you could if you really want to but realize you'll probably see those stitches on the right side of your towel or project. I'm just really careful with it and hand wash it.
Professor Pincushion thank you for your response. I suppose if I were making apparel which featured this kind of embroidery would need some backing or lining to protect the stitches. Thank you again! I love your videos ^___^
Just curious . I don’t know how to sew but just want to transfer the design and leave it. That’s not possible right ? Like the design won’t stay if I just leave it and not sew over it?
From a hot iron transfer? It should stay. I don't know if it'll eventually fade out after a number of washes but I've made mistakes with transfers before and was never able to get my goof out of the fabric. Also, you can use a hot iron transfer and then use fabric paint on the designs instead of thread. It's a little old school but might make a cool design more permanent. Good luck! :)
not with something like towels or hankies. If it's a different project like embroidery inside a frame or embroidery hoop then I usually put on a cover.
Are there any products where you can put your own design onto the transfer paper and then transfer it? Like if I wanted to put a specific image down to embroider?
Xalliumm You can get a transfer pencil which you draw on tracing paper and then iron it onto your fabric. It didn't really work well for me and my images seem to smudge. What I do instead is a print my image on printer paper, tape it to a bright window, tape my fabric over and trace image with a fabric marker. This works best with lighter color fabric. good luck!
Yes, but then you can iron't on the design and will have to draw it on. tape the fabric over your paper design onto something like a window and then just draw directly on the fabric with a pencil. It's time consuming but that's how I do it
you can put it near bright light and leave it for a while maybe 1 day until it fades out, or wash in HOT water. I have used Tide or any Stain removing spray and take it out
I've never seen that before so I don't think it exists unless you find a simple embroidery one that has X's. I think doing it on cross-stitch fabric and trying to make sure the fabric boxes line up with the pattern would be too hard and maybe that's why.
