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Buying a Sewing Chair and Tracing an Image for Embroidery 101
You gotta love Craigslist. I have been looking for weeks for a chair that I can use in my studio to both sew and work on my computer. I want it to have wheels, or legs thick enough to add wheels, be made of wood and upholstery, and be a color that will brighten my life.
As you can imagine, this hasn’t been an easy find. Then last weekend I see this gold chair on Criagslist that looks like it is screaming for someone to embroider in. Not necessarily the chair that I am in need of, but a cool chair non the less. And the price tag? $10. A total steal!
I put it in my room near my two favorite windows in the house.
It fits in perfectly like it was always meant to be there.
Oh and what’s even better — when I got to the woman’s house to pay for it I only had a twenty dollar bill and she didn’t have change so she gave it to me for free!
She said that she just wanted it to have a good home, and a good home it now has. I totally love it.
And… I’ve already been doing some sewing in it. Wanna see?
This is just a peek, I am making an art quilt of sorts and will be posting bits and pieces of it here and there until I can reveal the finished piece.
To get a real bug shape in motion I printed out a picture of a live bug from the Internet, taped it down to my light box, and traced it onto the fabric. Totally easy solution to putting an image onto fabric to embroider. I’ve also heard of using a window for the same technique. Just tape the image up to a sunny window and trace away!
Oh and you can get the water soluble marker to do this at JoAnn’s– they are like $2 if you have the 40% off coupon. I don’t know what brand it is, but I love love love the blue one that is marked “Water Erasable Fabric Marking Pen” All you have to do to erase it when you are done embroidering is take a damp paper towel and blot the area. Off it comes, simple as that! But thankfully it doesn’t come off very easily when you need it to stay put while sewing.
Of course the bug I traced didn’t have a purple butt or hot pink eyes. That was all me;)
I love it! I love the bug embroidery! I’ve been working on monogrammed pillowcases myself. I’m just using the ones already printed with a pattern, but I was thinking about doing some cute ones for my neices & nephews for Christmas…& I love the bug idea, especially for the boys!!! I’ll definitely have to try it. Thanks for the idea. Also, I’ll be checking back to see pics of your art quilt…so keep posting them. I’m counting on it. I love checking out other people’s stuff…I’m such a snoop.
Also, I’ll have to check out Craig’s List. I think I’m the last person on the planet that’s never been on there. 🙂