Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint
Hillary has not forgotten us crafters in her latest campaign. These Cross stitch style Cushions are available for $55.00 each. I think I would have preferred to see this as a cross stitch kit made available for crafters to make rather than buy, but still a cute idea.
I see a trend starting for a whole new range of political charts and slogans amongst female crafters. Do you have a Pro Hillary tutorial or project to share?
A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.
But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?
It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.
The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)
Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.
I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.
Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!
[Photo: Sirious Stitches]
Please Hillary should of been as attentive to the 4 people she let be killed in Benghazi! I want a woman in the white house but not this rude and out of touch woman! Stick to crafts and not be political. Not what I come here for!
Just because she’s a woman doesn’t mean her place is in the white house…How stupid! I truly hope people don’t vote for her just because of that!