It's almost springtime and that means lots of things - babies and weddings, aka. sewing projects. One way to make your sewing projects fun is to use loud and colourful fabrics that match nicely. Or, you could do what I do - individualize blankets. A good way to individualize blankets is to embroider letters onto them. Here is a picture of myself doing just such a thing.
If you don't have a print-out letters and/or pictures can become mishapen or randomly sized, so sewing through a picture of your favoured letters or picture is a good idea. I always do the outline first, then I rip the paper off. If you decide an outline is good enough (because you don't have the time or patience to fill the rest in), then at least you have the outline done and it will look pretty.
For filling an outline in, I do small stiches up and down first, filling in the whole area. Then I do side to side stiches, filling in the whole area. I think up and down stiches look the nicest, so I like to end with them, covering all the other threads and areas that got missed in the previous two layers. Since this is a lot of thread, use a timble and save your thumb. Also, do something else while you sew, like listen to music. Doing embroidery can be a very dull activity.
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