August 11, 2007

Embroidering with wax paper

My 4-year-old starts preschool in a few days. Her name needs to be on her backpack and I was itching to embroider it. I used wax paper as a tear-away stabilizer substitute.

Before:

I printed out her name.

Put a piece of wax paper over the name and traced with a Sharpie.

Pinned the wax paper to the backpack.

Started stitching. I used "old faithful", the split stitch.
I noticed that it helped to move the left pin over as I completed each letter. It helped stabilize the wax paper in the middle.
Tear away the wax paper. It tore away very easily. I used tweezers to get any bits of paper that were stuck.


The end result:
Posted by Old School Acres at 10:39 AM
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15 comments:

  1. What a great and helpful idea! Thanks so much..I'm going to try that.
    The backpack is adorable, by the way.
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  2. Did you use a single strand of embroidery floss, or is it doubled up to get that thickness? I never would have thought to use waxed paper!
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  3. It came out great. Very clever idea!
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  4. Thanks, girls.

    madmommy - I used all 6 strands of floss. It went through the fabric easier than I thought it would.

    If any of you try this method let us know!
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  6. I wonder if that would work on acrylic felt as easily. Great idea, who wants to have to spend the extra money on something like stabilizer?
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  7. What a great idea!!! I'm absolutely going to use this!
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  8. Oh, thank you so much for sharing this! I want to stitch my daughter's name on her bag too.
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  10. I use that method all the time. I usually let the sharpie dry for at least an hour before I start sewing, because I tend to see color transfer otherwise. This technique works well for larger projects also. I use it to make my own inserts in store bought potholders, and the fronts of baby bibs-- both as presents.
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  11. ha! ... i love this idea, i need to do the same for my son... thanks!
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  12. Thanks for sharing this with us...great pictures. What a blessing you are!

    Kimmie
    mama to 6
    one homemade and 5 adopted
    we are waiting on another adoption-come meet us!
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  13. This is great! I don't know how to embroider but would love to learn. Do you know where I could learn the stitches or do u have a tutorial that would help me? Thanks
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  14. I've never heard of this method. is this for embroidering on things other than fabric, or just when you don't have a hoop, or was it simply so you didn't have to transfer the pattern to the fabric? Like - on jeans? I just hand embroidered some additional color on my daughters' jeans. It went ok - would it have been easier with wax paper?

    I love this idea!!!!
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  15. This is a great idea! Can I use wax paper if I want to stitch on cotton t shirts as well? Would freezer paper work too?
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