Monday, June 9, 2008

Digitzing stitchouts....

With lots of gifts required this month, I thought I'd do some embroidery. While I was sewing my capris, my embroidery machine was stitching away....I also worked on 2 more card holder/wallets for teacher gifts, they still need top-stitching...


I'm making a quilt for a friend who is adopting a 5yo... I digitized some colouring sheets of airplanes, biplanes, helicopters and other things that fly...I'm going to do a serger quick quilt with polar fleece on one side, blue fabric with flight embroidery and then bind in a airplane print.

I fixed up the embroidery files and tried another stitch out. I like it better. Now its time to finish the project.

A co-worker of my husband just had a baby girl. I'm making a blanket and thought I'd add a teddy bear to the striped side. The stripe fabric is a knit terry and it embroidered well, but I'm not happy with the design I resized - I'm still leanring - the stitches are too long, and the outline is far from the teddy.

I found a stitchout at http://www.stitchandaprayer.com/FreeStuff.html for pull compensation and thought I'd stitch it out.

2 comments:

Mel said...

I kind of like the stitching like that on the bear, make it look more hand done. Around the nose, is the only part that seems like it could be closer.
I'm jealous you got the embird software, and have a machine to do it.

Leah said...

Thanks Mel. Some of the stitches seem very long, so I'm worried about how well it will hold up on a baby blanket.