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:

uncommon cross-stitch

the breakfast club


Mötley Crüe


zz top


All masterminded by the brilliant rubykhan, using Minipops as her inspiration... I can't wait until she finishes The Royal Tenenbaums!!!

showing off letters

I think like most people, the idea of embroidering letter and words is a little daunting. Here are 3 examples from the Embroidery Pool that are quite different.

This computing sampler from heidicrafts.


A cute door hanging from little miss scruffy.


This letter A is part of a felt book made by Dr Alice.