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What is the best way to make LETTERS?
Another online community I belong to held an "online shower," which is
kind of like a secret pal kind of a thing. Well the deadline to send out your gift was Oct 1. I ordered my secret person's gift 4 weeks ago and it still has not come in yet... so now I feel guilty that she is getting her gift so late, so I want to throw in a little something extra when I mail out her package (after the thing I ordered comes in). She loves the Raiders football team. So I thought I'd make a black pillow with silver letters that spell out RAIDERS. I have cool fabric for both the black and the silver. So, what is the easiest/best way to make letters for a pillow? TIA!!! |
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Chelley wrote:
|| || She loves the Raiders football team. So I thought I'd make a black || pillow with silver letters that spell out RAIDERS. I have cool fabric || for both the black and the silver. So, what is the easiest/best way || to make letters for a pillow? || || TIA!!! I would fuse the leters to Vilelene to stabilse them, this will make them become like badges or patches. Then apliqué them using a satin stitch, small width zig zag with a short stitch length. I never use anything to bond my apliqué to it's final resting place just plenty of pins but the others maybe able to recomend something to fuse it to the cushion before sewing. This could be usful move if the fabric is slippery and you havn't apliauéd before. I hope this helps. Claire |
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When I made an alphabet book for my nephew, I started out with very fancy hand-embroidered letters and ended up by cutting letters out of print fabric, turning the edges under, and top-stitching by machine -- a simple straight stitch near the edge, the same way you'd apply a patch. It looked great, and blended right in with the elaborate letters I'd begun with. When I made a flag with letters on it, I marked the cutting line on the applique' fabric, laid it on the background, and stitched around the cutting line with a narrow, loose zig-zag, then trimmed close to the stitching and covered the raw edge and the first stitching with a wider and closer zig-zag. I may have starched the fabrics for the second method. I didn't use any stabilizer, as I'd never heard of it at the time. I used thread that matched the letters; if sewing silver fabric onto black, I think I'd match the background. And then there is the fancy stitch that contrasts with both of them . . . A son of the nephew the book was made for is getting married this weekend. Considering how slowly I sew, I think it's time to start another alphabet book. Joy Beeson -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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I think it's
time to start another alphabet book. Aw, Joy, that really strikes me as sweet, for some reason! SueS |
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