The first song my husband and I danced to at our wedding ten years ago was the Led Zeppelin song
"Thank You". This is the first line from that song...
When I was trying to come up with a project for
this month's Point of View theme ("love"), this idea popped into my head, and I decided that it would make a nice Valentine's Day gift for my husband, too. I'm in the process of
redecorating our bedroom, so this will find a home on one of the walls in our room. This type of project would make a great gift for anyone who has a favorite song that has special meaning to them. It would also make a great wedding gift, if you know what song the bride and groom will be dancing to.
Since these particular song lyrics probably mean nothing to 99.9% of you, this is just a mini tutorial that kind of walks you through my thought process when I make these kind of hoops (like my
Spring Embroidery Hoop Art or my
Birth Announcement Embroidery Hoops).
The whole thing started with a basic idea. This sketch sat on my desk for a few weeks...
I originally wanted to embroider the entire thing, but time is always a big factor in how I go about doing things, and I ran out of it, so this transformed into a mixed media project.
I gathered up some materials and got to work...
I decided to use yellow fabric backed with fusible web to create the sun. I used a ruler to figure out what size I wanted it to be, then I went into Microsoft Word and drew a semicircle to create a template...
Embroidering the entire song lyric would have taken me forever, but stamping looks nice and is a lot faster. When I do fabric stamping, I like to use a pen on my stamps instead of an ink pad. It gives me more control over where the ink goes so I don't end up with stray marks. This is the pen that I use...
I just draw right on the stamp...
and stamp it onto the fabric...
I chose to embroider one word from the lyric. I used a pencil to lightly draw the word on the fabric...
At this point I put the fabric in the hoop and started embroidering...
For the sunbeams, I just started embroidering without drawing any lines first...
And that's it, in a nutshell :) Have fun and get creative!
Now it's your turn... Check out
this month's Point of View collage and link up your past or present love-themed projects at the
Point of View Love Link Party!
I'm linking up...
