Sew Spoiled

Today I learned how to make images into embroidery designs with Stitch Era . At my house we love to read and one of our favorites is Judy Moody, anything Judy Moody. Of course an embroidery design would be awesome! My girls and I are also putting a quilt together. When I asked them what we should do with the test swatch, my oldest said, "make it a quilt block" and that is what we did. I started with an easy one color design of Judy Moody. I had it from making the "Give your library bag character" post . I took it into Stitch Era , made it a vector image and the intelligent program wrote the embroidery file for me. Love That! A vector image is actually a mathematical formula, no matter how large or small the image is the resolution stays the same.  The embroidery software needs a vector image to create the embroidery stitches for your machine.   It actually turned out really well! This was just from a book image! That is amazing right! Ok, I am goi...

Start with a character from a children's book. My oldest enjoys Judy Moody, so we used one of her books to make the character design. Coloring books work well for tracing images because you need an image with one color. At the back of this activity book there was a picture of Judy Moody for kids to make their own t-shirts. After tracing the picture with Silhouette , we wrote "I heart books" and flipped the image. We were ready to cut it out.  Silhouette does all the work. Set your Silhouette to a slow speed (2-3) and thickness (3-4) for best results. We took off the excess vinyl and this is what we were left with... Iron the image down to the face of the bag. Make sure your iron has no water inside it and you are on the highest heat setting you have. Press directly on top of the plastic. I know the first time I did this I thought it was crazy and it went against every fiber of my being but you have to do it! We added a bow and button for fun. Don...