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Giveaway: PrintWorks Vanishing Fabric Transfers

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Last week I told you about my experience trying out the new PrintWorks Vanishing Fabric Transfers, which are great for adding personalized embroidery or other touches to projects.

I have a package to give away this week.

What you’ll get is one (opened but unused) pack of Vanishing Fabric Transfers, which is five sheets of 8.5×11 inches each. They come with all the instructions you need to successfully print and transfer a project (I promise it’s really easy!).

This giveaway is open to United States residents only. To enter, leave a comment on what you would do with this transfer paper!

Comment before the end of the day on Friday, June 19 for a chance to win.

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  2. I’d love to use this transfer paper to add designs and words to cloth for hand embroidery. Transferring designs is always so tricky for me!
    duchick at gmail dot com

  5. This would make it easy to
    try some applique on my
    fabric bags! Thanks for the
    chance to win.
    Carla from Utah

  7. I would like to win the fabric transfers to make some quilts/blankets for women/children in shelters.

  8. I usually use a light box to transfer a pattern, but would love to try this to get my designs on the tea towels I stitch. Thanks for this giveaway!

  11. I’ve embroidered prestamped table runners, pillowcases
    , placemats, etc over the years..this is a real game changer..thank you!

  12. I would love to personalize masks so that there are no mixups especially for my team at work.

  13. I do a lot of hand embroidery and I’m always looking for new techniques. I would love to try this.

  14. I would like to make some Friend themed birthday gifts for friends. I have a drawing of what I want to stitch but I can’t figure out how to transfer it to the fabric. This would be a Big help. I’d love to try them.

  23. I would use this for making vintage pillows and doilies. Would also be great for making personalized baby gifts.

  24. I would use it to make a LG project bag for my Mom, who is a knitter & sewer, and starting to quilt more since retiring.

  27. I would give this to my daughter-in-law since she loves to do embroidery. It would be a great gift for her. Thanks for the chance to win. 😀

  28. Just what i have been looking for. New to embroidery and doing a lot of experimenting

  33. I would love to win. I would
    use it to make a garden flag a design on nurses backpack

  35. I’d use them to create embroidery embellishments on Dress-A-Girl projects with my local Soroptomist club. The dresses are sent all over the world to meet girls needs for clothing and help them nurture self-esteem despite the structural/cultural challenges in which they are mired.

Have you read?

How to Manage a Large Piece of Cross Stitch Fabric

I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching. 

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies. 

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems. 

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess. 

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes. 

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]