EMBROIDERY SHOPS SECRET!

This is one of a series of Shops Secret of embroidery articles and tips from Wilcom embroidery Designer. View a number of Embroidery Shop work from the Gallery - than with machine embroidery, and at times even then, you're most likely going to need to move your embroidery design. While others are more suited to specific practises, You will find a selection a few are useful for a selection of Shops that are different. In this specific hints and Secret Embroidery Shops article well look at a few various ways to transfer the embroidery design onto fabric: Tracing - Tracing - You will need: Your design - Pale coloured, lightweight fabric - Sharp pencil or a disappearing ink marking pen - Light box or white\/pale surface - Masking tape - If you are using a light coloured, lightweight fabric like a cotton yard or a fine calico, its potential to trace the layout onto it as if it were tracing paper - With masking tape, tape your layout to a mild box or a white or light colored surface, such as a mild wood table or white card. 


Position your cloth right side up, to where your work is to go carefully aligning it. You can hold it in place if its a small, simple design, but if its more complicated you might wish to consider taping your cloth in place using the masking tape too. Masking tape is simpler to remove than Sellotape or Scotch tape and leaves less sticky residue, but even so, if using it, make certain you only utilize it to stick down the edges of your cloth that you could really afford to cut away if required. Once your cloth is in place, trace over your layout utilizing a sharp pencil or a vanishing ink marking pen. 
EMBROIDERY SHOPS!

A pencil may leave a permanent mark which may have to be covered with stitching, but vanishing ink should fade away at about 18 to twenty four hours, or quicker if washed, so you need to ensure that you have completed work on your piece before then. Always test at the a scrap of your cloth first, to ensure that the ink does not cause any harm - Dressmakers carbon paper - You may need: Your design - Appropriate carbon paper in an appropriate color - Fabric - Pencil or ball point pen - Pins or masking tape - Dressmakers carbon paper works at All the same way as All the old fashioned sort used using stationery, but tends into be on heavier paper, less likely into tear when pinned. Place your layout on top, and draw over it utilizing a pencil or ball point pen. You need to ensure that neither the layout or the fabric move while doing this, commonly, all three layers are pinned together, though in several cases you might want to use masking tape.