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Comment by thinkin' bout threads (karenNms) on August 30, 2010 at 23:15

Hello...I just joined and I very much look forward to stitchin' with you all. I really enjoy hand embroidering but I'm rusty after not doing much of it for that last 15 or so years. I wish I had taken more pictures of the projects I've done, but they were mostly gifts and I just gave them away. If I ever find the older ones that I did take I'll post them. Right now I only have 2, and I'm almost done with another project.

Comment by Lynette Hale on August 11, 2010 at 21:45

There is also another product called Solvy which is a cold water soluable 'plastic'. You can draw on it with a fine black pen, tack it onto your fabric, do the embroidery, then dunk it in cold water & it literally melts away. If you don't want to wet the fabric or threads you can use a cotton bud dipped in water & just trace around the embroidery & the Solvy falls away. Most sewing machine stores would stock it.

Comment by Lin Taylor on August 11, 2010 at 20:00

I haven't tried that yet, Maureen, but I will the next time I see it at the local quilt store. When I have a big pattern, I use regular tracing paper, the cheaper the bettr. It's stiffer than tissue, but it does tear off. Tweesers are used in the tight spots. It works pretty well.

Comment by Maureen Greeson on August 10, 2010 at 12:34

There's another product, Golden Threads quilting paper, that works really well when you have a more complicated or larger area to embroider as it doesn't tear as easily as tissue paper while you're working. It requires a little effort and tweezers to get all of it torn away after you're finished stitching, but I love it.

Comment by Lin Taylor on August 9, 2010 at 20:47

Maureen, that's how I get my patterns onto my work, too. I think it's worth the extra work for having no marking on the fabric.

Comment by Maureen Greeson on August 9, 2010 at 14:42

Sandra, When I embroider I almost always draw or trace what I want to do on white tissue paper (such as you'd use in a gift) baste it onto my fabric and stitch. It's so easy to tear away the paper and there's never a worry of pencil marks showing. This should work well on the felt.

Comment by Desiree Sevigny on August 5, 2010 at 16:45

Hi, everyone. I found a cheap and easy product for drawing/tracing patterns onto fabric. I've tried disapearing pens, tranfer pens/pensils. I've had my share of disapointments from them. Just for fun I thought I would try Crayola original washable markers. Wow !!! I love them, I tried all the colors in the 12 pack on cotton muslin. They did not bleed at all and I soaked the fabric in a bowl of hot tap water for about 5 minutes and all the colour(even black) was gone without a trace. I will try it next on silk.

Comment by Summer on June 8, 2010 at 11:34

I am new here. I am very very excited about being here. I have been into embroidery since I was quite young. I never tire of seeing what others have stitched. I have been a fan of Sharon B's for quite a while now and I am proud to be a part of this group.
I would love to have some friends on this group so please send me an invitation.

Comment by Ellen Mastros on May 14, 2010 at 12:13

Hi toall. Thanks to those who answered my request for ideas to use already done embroidery pieces. I had a piece I had done just to try some design ideas. It laid around for quite awhile. It was a bouquet tied with ribbon and some other random flower designs. I appliqued it to a pillow I made in dark green with white piping. It came out really well. I gave it to my mom, and it was a big hit. Everyone (my sisters) said they'd be happy for some. I guess that selves my problem for a while.
Right now I'm working on a wedding gift, and the wedding is a week for Sunday! Deadlines, deadlines!
Thanks again.

Comment by Yoby on May 14, 2010 at 9:58

As a suggestion for Ellen - I am making a book of the different pieces and stitch samplers, like one I saw in a museum in Pampa, TX. Everything was sewn down onto red cloth pages, and she had embroidered pieces, sampler pieces, quilt blocks, pages of tatted or crocheted lace. We weren't supposed to touch anything behind the ropes, but everytime I went in, I would turn one of the pages. I wonder if it is still there 40years later.

I saw the same kind of idea in this months issue of cloth paper scissors, and all the pages were different sizes on the orighinal pieces of material. This wouldn't work for the really large pieces probably, but for some close to the same size it might. I am now putting my embroidery skills to use on bookmarks to give away, kind of like the postcards or ATC's people trade, except I'm not trading, just brightening someone's day.

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