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need sewing help Ok i am making a blanket.. and i want to put words on it.. my sewing machine doesnt' embroider.. does anyone know any other way i can put the writing on the blanket?? it doens't have to be in thread... any sugestions will do! |
at walmart I have seen some iron on letters, maybe that would work |
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They actually stay on quite well. There is also fabric paint that works well too. |
I have appliqued names on T shirts. You could cut out the letters and then stick them on with a glue stick and sew a satin stitch around them. |
I was going to try them in the future. I have used fusable web ( you iron one side to the lettering or whatever you want to add, peel off the backing and the iron the whole piece to the fabric, it's like double-sided sticky tape that you iron to activate the sticky glue) it stays on really well through washing too. |
I have hand emboridered before, its really simple. |
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How many names? Do they have a lot of letters in them? |
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well you could try to do it by hand... or if you can find someone to sew it. What i did was I went to walmart one day and I got some embroider thread that was .10 cent to practice with and I practiced on fleece. Let me try to explain how I did it.. I tie a knot on the end of the thread, I used all 7-8 strips of the embrioer thread. Then I pulled that threw on the back side so the know will be on the side no will would be able to see. Then i went down through the fleece, then right back up again, pulled it through just a little bit then tied my thread over my needle, so it looked like a loop. Then your next loop,.. you need to go back down in that same place where you just came up at.. I don't know if you get what im saying once I get my computer fixed, I can post some pics.. let me look for a link |
http://www.bead-media.com/knotbeadembroidery.html if you scroll down a little ways, im refering to the overhand knot. |
Another option is to have it professionally embroidered. We have a shop here in our town that will do it for not very much. |
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I think i'll go to a sewing shop we have here and see if they can do it :p but if not i'll start practicing! |
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lol, sorry trying to explain it.... I know your just looking at it like :eek: :eek: whats the girl up to...lol.. Once you get going its easy.. trust me.. I taught myself how to sew and im not a pro! |
There are two places in my little town that embroiders. One is a little place that mends clothes and so on and the other embroiders only. Check around and see if you have something like that in your town. |
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Oh and please post a pic when you get it done I would love to see it. |
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Yes, of course!! |
I've used the iron on letters for a tee shirt for a friend long before I started sewing and they held up through SO many washes! He still has the shirt! Also, you could cut out the letters and do a zig sag stitch around them, if you like that look :) |
How I use to do this. It works. All one needs to do is mark the pattern onto the fabric before cutting out the pattern, no presser foot then put this into an embroider hoop so that the fabric side is down smooth with the sewing machine, set the stitch length to the lowest stitch which would be 0 then do the zig zag to your desired width then you are able to free hand the fabric doing your embroidering by moving it about real slow doing embroidery or monogramming, practice on a piece of fabric. It is very easy to do. Anything you want to do can be used doing this technique, years ago this is how I did my machine embroidery. It works. I hope I've explained this good if not please pm me and if I can help further I would be happy to. Patti |
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