Embroidered Alphabet - The Choices

I have no picture, but the paper was taped to the fabric and then taped up to a window so I could transfer the markings to the fabric with marker.  My children decided to join me. (First under my supervision, then unexpectedly when I was making dinner.  Their beautiful artwork shown below.)

I picked to embroider in green because I had the most variety in green floss, and I had decided to do an ombré effect to give it a little more interest.  So here's my pile of green. (I've allowed my children to play with the floss to distract them while I do other projects, so it's not organized.  At all.  It's a hot mess.  Yay!)

And having never done this before I don't know if I have enough of one color to do the whole thing.  (I'm still deciding if I want to just outline the letters or fill in the block parts of them.)

Embroidered Alphabet - The Beginnings

I'm on a crazy mission - I have become fanatic about cleaning, organizing, and decluttering my craft room. It’s a hodgepodge of stuff, but most importantly, projects that I’ve started and not quite finished over the last decade. Or more.  I’m trying to clear it out. Use things up, donate what can be donated that I don’t have a good use for, finish things and get them out!

Naturally, with that, I started a new project! Ha. Not surprising. But I did it for a good reason! I didn’t want to do any projects involving cutting and sewing fabric because that would involve a giant mess in the room I’m trying to clean, so I decided to start a completely new hobby of embroidery. Why not?

I found this image on Pinterest a while ago and loved it. I knew I wanted it displayed in my house (maybe kids room?) but I didn’t know how. It can't really be pieced in a quilt, my free motion quilting skills are not up to snuff for it, I didn’t want to just draw it, I don't have cool paper to put it on, and I wasn’t going to print it. So this week I had embroidery on my mind and thought, that could work. Then I found a piece of cloth that seemed like the perfect dimensions and it was already finished with a hem on the end to hang it from.  I decided to give it a try.

Since I don’t have a printer, I blew up the design on my computer screen and traced it onto paper with pencil, then traced the pencil with sharpie.  That's what I'm doing now.

(And yes, I use paper that my kids have scribbled on already, because I'm not keeping that, but I'm not wasting a basically empty piece of paper, either.  The dilemma that got me into the above situation.)

til next time...