![]() Appearance: Think about the overall appearance of the item you are adding lettering to and choose a complementary font.A few practice letters is always a good idea before committing to one font. Legibility: Sometimes a font that looks great on paper doesn’t look so great when worked with needle and thread.The smaller the letters, the more difficult it will be to embroider around tight curves and angles. Size: If you are embroidering a small size text, it’s best to keep the font simple. ![]() How do you decide what type of font to use when embroidering letters? For the most part, it’s a matter of personal choice, but there are a few factors to keep in mind when choosing a font. Well, guess what? Once you learn the basics, embroidering letters is really easy! Maybe you want to make a personal label for a quilt, add your favorite quote to an embroidery piece, monogram cloth napkins, or even stitch a funny little saying on a piece of clothing. There are countless possibilities for adding lettering to all your sewing and craft projects. You can find heaps of free hand embroidery patterns here on Needle ‘n Thread, including a few monogram alphabets, all on the Patterns page.If you want to add a personal touch to your projects, learning how to embroider letters is a great skill to have. You can certainly enlarge it, or you can reduce it for smaller projects.Įnjoy the pattern, and have a splendid weekend! ![]() The pattern on the PDF below prints at about 4.5″ high if you choose “no scaling” in your printer options before you print. At the same time, they would work equally as well in color on a sturdier ground fabric – from the cotton kitchen towel to heavier linens used for cushions and the like. Right in the middle of it, you can plant a single, simple letter that will feel perfectly at home surrounded by festoons of flowers.ĭesigns like this are perfect for whitework on a semi-sheer background, like handkerchief linen. The art of monogramming often includes fancy frames that encircle an initial or two (or three… or four…). I have a good pile of them that I browse through occasionally for design ideas, alphabets, and general inspiration.Īnd sometimes, I stumble upon a little pattern that, with a little clean-up job, would be fun to share. The old French magazines like La Broderie Blanche and Journal des Demoiselles, and the old Sajou pamphlets (especially those with line drawings rather than charts) are among my favorites. ![]() So I don’t really collect many anymore, unless a happy chance brings me into contact with a volume I’m really interested in that’s affordable. The prices have gone up considerably on these old publications – when you can actually find them. In the last six years or so, it’s become increasingly The Rage to collect vintage and antique patterns. This inordinate infatuation with embroidered monograms and decorative initials was the impetus behind a crazily obsessive era of collecting old embroidery pamphlets and magazines from the mid-1800’s through the first half of the 1900’s, before it became really popular to collect them. Hand embroidered monograms! Ahhhh! I am twitterpated by them! They are my One Weakness… to quote Dorcas Lane.
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