One of the things I love to do is customize an order for someone. Weather it be an initial or the full name, its fun when you can call an item your own. Today I finished another personalized item. The customer asked for the name to be spelled out in the clouds of smoke from the tractor.
Now a lot of people ask me if I have a special machine that does my "embroidery." And the answer is, not really. Yes, I have a machine with a few bells and whistles... but not a big fancy embroidery one (and you don't really need a big fancy machine to do stuff like this). The example above shows a good example of my lettering. The "John Deere" logo is a programed setting in my machine. However, the letters used to spell "Elijah" is done with the simple zig zag stitch setting with the stitch length set at 0.4. For this particular bag I used a pencil and drew on the fabric where I wanted the letters. Now in case you don't have great penmanship here is a trick I found online that I modified for a sewing machine.
First find a good word/document program on your computer... type out the name or word that you'd like on your crafty creation. Find the font and size you want and print it out.
Next, pin it to your fabric in the spot you'd like and start sewing. Go slowly.
When your done it should look like this. You now have to remove the paper. Start ripping... it should come off pretty easily.
Use some tweezers or a seam ripper to get the small pieces out... like the middle of the "O" and "E."
And this is what it will look like when its finished. Hope this was a helpful tutorial. you can also use this technique for hand sewn embroidery. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to leave a comment below.
Happy Sewing!
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