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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?

How to Add Text to a Cross Stitch Project

One of the easiest ways to make a cross stitch project more personal is to add text to it. Whether you’re adding the names of people getting married to a generic floral cross stitch design, birth information to a project on theme with the new baby’s room or just adding a word or phrase that’s meaningful to you, adding words to cross stitch projects make them that much more special. 

But if you’re not working with a project that already has text built in, or you want to change the text that’s there, that can feel a little daunting. 

Caterpillar Cross Stitch has a great guide to adding names and words (as well as numbers) to projects, which talks you through what to consider and how to actually go about adding text to a cross stitch project successfully. 

You’ll need to think about what kind of font you want to use and if you’re using back stitched letters or larger filled letters, how much space you need and how the letters work together in the text you’re planning to make sure it’s readable. 

Their post includes common pitfalls such as running out a space or ending up with text that’s off center and how to avoid them (spoiler: chart out your text before you stitch!). 

The whole post is really helpful if you’ve never added lettering to a project before and don’t know where to start. I like to use block letters in back stitch when learning how to add text to cross stitch, but of course there are tons of lettering options. Check out this collection of cross stitch fonts if you want to see some different things you can try. 

And head over to Caterpillar Cross Stitch to get more tips for how to successfully add lettering to your cross stitch projects. They also have their own alphabet and number charts you can buy to add text to your stitching. 

Have you ever added text to a cross stitch project? I’d love to hear how it went!

[Photo: Caterpillar Cross Stitch]