Cupcake Embroidery Part 3

As promised, here is an update on turning cupcake coloring book pages into embroidery patterns and then actually doing the embroidery part!

See my previous post for the original pattern and for the transfer pattern.

For this pattern, I traced the image on tracing paper.



I used supplies from Jenny Hart's Stitch-It Kit...


I trimmed the pattern and pinned it down onto the lovely fabric included in the kit...




I used a split stitch for the letters and a back stitch for the cupcake bottom...all done within an episode of Days of Our Lives...

After removing the tracing paper, the cupcake "stump" is complete!


Next step is to finish up this little project by embroidering the frosting....an update with photos in my next post.

Freebie: Cupcake Coloring Page & Embroidery Pattern

Super-cool Jennifer Perkins of The Naughty Secretary Club offers a Crafty Business Seminar at Stitch Lab in Austin, TX. As a present to myself, I finally decided to go for it and take her class. It was A-W-E-S-O-M-E.

She suggested that coloring book pages could also be embroidery templates. That idea totally blew my mind. So this week, my goal is to embroider something using one of my coloring pages.

Here is a free cupcake embroidery pattern for you (formerly known as a coloring page). Send me a picture of your work and I'll post it RIGHT HERE! Let's promise to do it by January 31, K?
xo-m

Will you join me in trying this? Might I suggest this extra fun kit available from Sublime Stitching to help get you started?

Vintage Pattern Restoration

I have a box of fun but really battered old patterns. It would be fun to do something crafty with them, so I decided to take a stab at digital "restoration." Here are the results:

This was the in-between version, where I removed what I felt was unsightly wear, but kept the authenticity.

Does anyone have an opinion on which is better? I am thinking about making a few journals and cards out of these...

Super Sassy Apron Pattern

I just got this pattern! This is a great website for vintage/out of print patterns.

This amazing picture by Lily of A Block a Day is of one of the aprons from this pattern and I spotted it on Amy Karol of Angry Chicken's apron blog called Tie One On.

Saddle Shoe Love

Fabric Designs

I'm playing around with the possibility of designing my own fabric to use in my projects. Here are a few prototypes:

In an apple-y mood