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DK WAYWO: Making embroidery patterns from other designs and new way to transfer embroidery patterns [1]

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Date: 2025-02-09

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I do a lot of embroidery. It's one of the things that keeps me relatively sane right now. I do embroidery kits, transfer designs, designs from books and a few items I design myself. For this project, I started with someone else's design and manipulated it to create the design I wanted. The original design is by Mary Corbet, and it is a scissors holder ornamented with cornflowers/chicory flowers. I’d like to show you the image, but apparently I can’t. You can follow the link below, though.

www.needlenthread.com/…

I wasn't looking for a scissors holder. I was looking for a design for my weed wall. Obviously I needed the design larger than a scissor holder, so the first manipulation was enlarging it 130%. Also there were various flower orientations, I needed to decide which ones I wanted.

I ended up combining two elements, which I traced onto tracing paper the first design below.

The little cut out did not have anything on it.

Looking at design, I decided I didn’t want four elements, but rather 3. Odd numbers always being best in design, So I changed it to the design below, simply by cutting out the additional bud.

Now I had a design I liked. It was time to transfer it to a new type of transfer paper.

I just put it in the tray of the printer, for mine, sticky side down, and copied my design onto the paper. When it comes out, it looks like this.

Then I cut around the design and stuck it to the fabric. It’s sticky, so you just press it on the fabric. Done. As you can see in top picture, after you stick it on, you just start embroidering on it.

So, What Are You Working On?

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