here again with different colors

so these are made with book covers inside of them. the embroideries are Urban Threads, of course!!

Two of them! I made them today. And since I bought some tags for my company a while back I've been putting tags on EVERYTHING I make, haha! Love these blue fabrics, my bank account is going to be subzero in a few months if I can't keep this focus of not buying EVERYTHING I like.. There just are too many adorable and awesome fabrics out there!!

^ i know. i have made many things before. this time it was obvious it was because of fabric shifting. the outline was where it should be in the design, but it shifted a good half a centimeter away. that's a big shift.

to save my money i wanted to make it smaller and embroidered it out. no shifting whatsoever as i predicted. this one has 16173 stitches and it's 130*100mm.

because, really, the ones i've made before are just dabbling with the embroidery software. now that i've used it for quite some time and have seen how embroideries are made (ie. i've purchased MANY from the fantabulous Urban Threads and watched when they embroider themselves, baffled at the complexity..) i'm finally ready to make some amazing stuff myself. this. is. awesome!

you shouldn't toot your own horn, but really, come on, this is the coolest thing i've EVER made!

i started out with drawing a fairie. yes, i love them. yes, i've wanted to make something like this since i got my machine. so shoot me!



ps. really need to get me some better felt tip pens.....



after a few hours of digitizing, hand and back ache, i had that!

and then i had to wait ONE HOUR for it to stitch itself!



i loved seeing something I MADE on the screen of my embroidery machine.. ohhh!





sorry, you're not gonna get the whole picture just yet! something went wrong when i embroidered it out, and some of it came out a bit wonky. the fabric shifted during.. (( well, the outcome is amazing in any case and i just needed to share!!

thanks

and comments and critisism welcome, although you can't really properly do it until i get it stitched out fully and can show you the whole picture


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ohh! and stats: it takes about an hour, it has 8 colors, 8 color changes, stitch count 35639, size 241*187mm

I'm thinking i'll go to the gig without the wings am not totally sure about this one yet, but now i've atleast got one option.

so my man plays the guitar for several bands and in his free time and he's also studying music. so i made him these hideous curtains made better by Urban Threads cool flaming guitar design http://www.urbanthreads.com/product_details?product_id=3091&category_id=6

two of them with the same pattern of a t-shirt (i made longer sleeves).
the longest shirt is an inspirational piece - i had the worst seamstress' block ever, and couldn't make a garment to save my life. so i decided to just start cutting and sewing, no matter what would happen. so i did. and it came out OK and my block is cured!

(everything i do is fake???)
my last pair of fake leather pants died horribly four or so years ago, so since then i've wanted a new pair. finally i got round doing just that. i put an extra layer of fake leather on the knees for embelishement.

So. I was making a costume for the Emilie Autumn consert next month. Had to get the perfect top for the costume. Here it is! I'm so glad it turned out this well I used a pattern from the Swedish Burda-magazine, but had to add 15 cm of lenght so that the corselet would cover my belly. I also took it in a few cm, so that I could put the lacing in the back. I used the Baroque Punk Rose embroidery from Urban Threads http://www.urbanthreads.com/product_details?product_id=8814&category_id=13.