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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.

Comments

  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?

Easy Fonts to Add to Your Cross Stitch

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go. 

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project. 

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses. 

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project. 

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches. 

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room. 

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!