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Your Kid, the Home Accessory Designer

December 5th, 2007 by Simone

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Here’s my confession: I live vicariously through the artistic abilities of my child. I believe she has a fantastic sense of color, line, and style (not that the state of her room is any indication of her design talents).

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Being the stage mother of a single child I intend to exploit her vision for this year’s holiday gifts. To put it simply, her artwork will serve as an embroidery pattern to give a humble flour sack tea towel some extraordinary flourish. Since your child is obviously equally as talented, why not give this idea a try:

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Materials

Copy of the artwork
Fabric
Transfer paper
Embroidery floss
Embroidery hoop

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Select the Artwork and Make a Copy
I like simple line drawings because you don’t have to fill in planes of color with your embroidery. You can copy the drawing either with a copy machine, or scan it into your computer. If you have a scanned copy, you can use a graphics program and further expand on the original art by adding other elements like lettering.

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Trace the Design onto the Fabric
I’m using a dish towel, but you could also embellish a whole line of linens such as pillow cases, napkins, aprons; or clothing like a t-shirt or jeans jacket. Place the transfer paper on top of the fabric where you want your design to appear and the copy of the artwork on top of the paper. Trace the design.

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Start Embroidering
Take a look at Candace’s embroidery lessons to give you some ideas of what type of stitches might work well for your design. For this towel I used satin stitch for the letters, stem stitch for the outline, seed stitch for the butterfly’s body, a rosette stem stitch combination for the butterfly’s wings,and feather stitch for the bee’s body.

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That’s it.

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18 Responses to “Your Kid, the Home Accessory Designer”

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  2. charlotte Says:

    that’s a gorgeous idea! so imaginative

  3. Bree Says:

    Dang – you totally rock! Those are the cutest towels. Fabulous idea. The Tacoma Museum of Glass had a program where glass artists turned kids drawings into real glass sculpture. I’m in love with all versions of turning kids artwork into something using our own talents. Thank you!

  4. karrin Says:

    That is so cute! What a great idea. Now I know what to do with my son’s artwork. Thanks!

  5. sugarshop (Dena) Says:

    That is such a great idea! Thanks for the link too, for those of us who need some help. :)

  6. Zuleika Says:

    That is such a great idea! I was actually going to try something similar, but I procrastinate too much. ;-)

  7. Tami Says:

    What a GREAT idea.

  8. Elizabeth (Bloggy Mama) Says:

    That is a FANTASTIC idea. I’m totall ygoing to use that one, when Hunter is older.

  9. Cocuklacocuk Says:

    great idea. And thanks for your kid also for the nice pictures.

  10. IamSusie Says:

    I did the same thing for a towel for my kid’s Nana and a pillow for Grandma. I really want to make several for us, but I haven’t gotten around to it. My grandmother always said that creative people have messy spaces.

  11. southerngirlmusings Says:

    Love it!!!! Thanks for sharing and yes creative types are truly special and it is wonderful that you encourage her creative pursuits.

  12. Ari Says:

    I love it!!! I’m going to have to find some old drawings to work with (I don’t have any kids yet)!

  13. Michelle Says:

    Your satin stitching is so nice, I thought you’d machine embroidered the word “BUGS.” I love that drawing of the shark, too.

  14. tamara Says:

    My kids are the best artists in my home too!

  15. Kelly Says:

    I thought you machine embroidered bugs too! Please tell your child – WONDERFUL work – you too! ;)

  16. Mel Says:

    You are amazing (and so is your daughter.) I just love this. What a great way to honour a child’s creativity (and revitalize your own.) Thank you so much for sharing it! :0) Mel

  17. Colleen Says:

    That is adorable! I just got into embrodery, and the tips you posted are so much better than staring at my grandmother’s pieces trying to figure out how she did it!

    Thank you so much for posting the lessons!

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