T-shirt Embroidery

I was up till 2am this morning finishing this one off and now as I type this evening I’m tired and my fingers are still sore from trying to force the needle through the t-shirt backing I’d applied. Embroidered onto a T-shirt, it’s currently still drying on the radiator (which isn’t on, but lack of anywhere else to put it and all that), so not the best of pictures. 

The embroidery pattern is from Sublime Stitching’s Craft Pad, which you can get from Amazon here and it has many of Sublime Stitching’s patterns (so saving us Brit embroiderers from having to order from Sublime Stitching in the States, although then again I’ve ordered from them quite a few times now and they’re normally pretty quick and postage isn’t too bad).

I fell for the pattern above immediately and wanted it on a T-shirt, unfortunately I ended up choosing a T-shirt that was horrible to work with, it’s not the first T-shirt I’ve embroidered but I’ve never had such a problem with the T-shirt stretching before, so no matter how tight I pulled it across the hoop it still had give. I think the T-shirt (a £5 M&S fair trade one) had too much jersey content or something.

I also made a mistake ironing on the transfer and it slipped slightly giving a too thick line, so instead of using my usual three strands of floss I had to use six, which I think doesn’t look as nice.

So, all in all this project has taken a fair amount of time because I just haven’t wanted to pick it up sadly. That’s why when I got to within sight of the end last night I didn’t want to put it down as I thought goodness knows when I’d pick it up again and it was meant to be a summer t-shirt!

A very cheap Ikea trip

In that we didn’t buy anything! It hasn’t been the most successful day, it started with me being sure, you know that 99.9999% sure that ballet started again today, it didn’t. I kicked myself a bit for that, I am getting better at writing dates down but I lost the ballet date letter.

We then went onto Ikea, it comes to something when I get the new Ikea catalogue and the thing I get most excited about it their clothes drier but it was big and I wanted it! So we went over there today and we couldn’t find it! They had other driers but they weren’t very nice (one of them was positively floppy), so we didn’t buy any, I’ll get one in town tomorrow (threw out my old one recently as it was so old, the plastic coating was coming off and I was fed up of having rust stains on my clothes). 

We of course had a look at everything in Ikea as we walked through it, saw a nice sofa, reddish orange, one of those sofas with a sticky out bit so you can really put your feet up and only at £349. A bit smaller than our current one which swamps the living room in a bit, it’s a possibility one day, specially as our current sofa, which at 9 years old is already on it’s second set of covers, which are once again getting well and truly wrecked by my two and instead of spending another £100 when the time comes on it’s third set of covers, a new sofa might be nice.

We also said hello to our future kitchen, we know exactly what we want, always have done, our kitchen is so small the actual units are quite ‘cheap’, it’s just the resulting building and electrical work that would need to be done is the frightening (kitchen needs rewiring and replastering actual putting plaster on some of the unplastered walls).

But still Ikea is not as fun when you’ve pretty much ‘done’ your home and are feeling a bit broke, I even gave the fabrics a miss.