Sweet Turtle Shirt

With the input I received on a previous post I tried the poly mesh stabilizer. I actually ended up hooping the poly mesh and tear away, making sure the poly mesh was closest to the shirt. I am pleased with the outcome, but it still needs to go through the wash to see how it looks.

It's just so cute!

Applique is from Lynnie Pinnie and the font is "Itty Bitty" from 8CAAP

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This past year all of the major holidays seem to have snuck up on me and I was not able to make cute shirts for my girls or my nieces and nephew. This year, one of my new years resolutions is to make sure they all have cute shirts for the holidays! So, I went ahead and made my nieces their Valentines Day shirts!

I took this opportunity to try out my new (to me) technique of making the shirts with tear away/wash away stabilizer and I am still very happy with the end results!

Here is the back of the hoop after the design is all stitched out! I am really impress with how well it all holds together considering it's tear away stabilizer. I kept expecting to turn it over and see it all shredded or starting to pull apart, but it wasn't.

Here is Sara's sweet tweet shirt! I love this little birdie!

And her is Em's!

Savannah and Scarlett will be getting sweet tweet shirts of their own also, but it will have to wait until after we get back from another little trip to see family.

The bird applique is from Embroidery Boutique and the font is Madison from 8CAAP

And the results are....

I am very happy! I took a few pics to show what the shirt I did looked like after I did the embroidery. The first one is the back of the shirt after pulling what tear away stabilizer I could off.

This one is the shirt flipped back right.

This is after running it through the washer and dryer and then doing a light press.

It turned out really nice!

And here is Miss Scarlett wearing her new snowflake shirt!! It fit her so much better than the minnie shirt because the design contoured with her body and wasn't stiff!

I am excited to try a few more shirts this way!

And as per a few comments on my previous post, I will be trying the poly mesh stabilizer as well and see how that turns out!

I LOVE seeing other peoples creations and learning new tips and tricks so if you happen to come across my blog or already follow and have a site/store of your own, I would love for you to share!!

The snowflake is from Planet Applique and the font is Bella from 8CAAP

Trial and Error

I haven't been embroidering for all that long, less than a year actually even though I have had my machine for over a year. Everything I have read, when you are doing appliques on items such as shirts, you are suppose to use cut away stabilizer, so I have. While the finished product looks awesome, one wash and the design is wrinkled. I hate this. I don't know if it's the type of stabilizer I am using or what but after getting Scarlett a shirt form Carter's and seeing that it's an applique on a shirt with NO stabilizer on the back I am doing a little experiment! I just stitched out an applique snowflake with her name across it on tear away stabilizer. I ended up hooping 2 layers of the tear away and then pinning the shirt to it like I normally would. It stitched out great! I tore away the stabilizer and the shirt is currently going through the washer and dryer to see how it holds up and comes out! I am really hoping it does well because, at least with Scarlett, having the stiff stabilizer behind the design looks strange on her because she is so small and chubby! lol

I'll post pics and update when it's done!

If anyone has had any experience with this I would love your thoughts on using tear away vs. cut away on shirts!

Snowman Shirts

Here are 2 shirts I just did for my niece and nephew! I am loving doing the snowman appliques!

Applique is from Planet Applique and the font is Casual from GG Designs

Applique is from Planet Applique and the font is Bella from 8CAAP

Winter Shirts

I have recently become addicted to putting Christmas appliques on black shirts!! I just love the way the colors "pop!" I am so, so happy with the way these two shirts turned out!! I wanted to send my nieces Christmas shirts, but time slipped away from me so I decided to send them "winter" themed shirts for Christmas. The snowman and the "foam" on the cup are both white Minky dot and the rest of the applique fabric is Riley Blake's Colorful Christmas! I really like the way the shirts coordinate! The appliques are from Planet Applique and the font is "Bella" from 8 Claws and a Paw!

Mickey's Rockin' Road Show

I have been guilty for too long about not making stuff for my girls! I get too caught up in customer orders that I wasn't making time for my own girlies, but that has changed! I am trying to do better about making S and S shirts!

On Saturday we had tickets to take the girls to see Mickey's Rockin' Road Show! Of course I had to make Minnie Mouse shirts for the occasion! I have been wanting to do this design for a while so I was thrilled with how cute it turned out!

*Design is: Frou Frou by Heathersue and the font is: Walt by 8 Claws and a Paw*

Miss Scarlett was not so happy about the shirt at first! She kept pulling on the design trying to get it off.

Savannah showing off her matching bow.

Savannah enjoying her $10 bucket of popcorn! Expensive YES good ABSOLUTELY!

Over all we had a great time at the show!