Ladybird Needle Keeper: Design and templates for felt padding
Here's the design for my magnetic needle keeper and templates for building up the ladybird's body; and here's the link to the tutorial to make the needle keeper. Enjoy!
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Fly Agaric Mushroom Autumn card
Here's a link to the tutorial showing the one I made.
Fly Agaric Mushroom Autumn card
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Transfering a Design
There are lots of ways to transfer designs, and I'll add more here, but these two are really easy.
Light Box
I do have a small light box, but normally use a home made one to transfer designs.
Tape your design to a window pane with masking tape, ensuring it's flat. Tape your fabric over the top, and then carefully trace the design. This can make your arms ache a bit, (especially if you are 'vertically challenged', like me!) so do be sure you get it at a comfortable height. I like to use a waterproof pen with a fine nib - but if you are worried about your stitches showing you can use an embroidery transfer pencil.
Printing/ironing
If you use a laser printer, you can transfer an image by ironing your printed sheet onto suitable fabric. I've found cotton with a reasonably high thread count which makes it very smooth is the most receptive to this process. I have done this several times and it does work, but - please bear in mind you need a lot of heat and a lot of patience. You'll get a silvery image appearing, eventually.
Oh, and the image will be reversed, so you need to reverse it if you want it the right way around. It won't work with an ink jet printer, as the ink doesn't react to heat in the same way. It's worth a try for small designs - but I wouldn't recommend using it it you are embroidering a table cloth!
Ted and Ginger pattern
and link to the tutorial .
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