Wire Embroidery | Family Chic

I love to mess around with embroidery – here’s a different kind of Valentine for you…

Rubber coated copper wire is shaped into a sentence and stitched onto a piece of rough linen.

Start out with a piece of fabric and a piece of corrugated cardboard - both of the same size.

Grab a bag of Twisteez Wire (a rubber coated copper wire used for wire sculptures, available at Blick for about $6.00 a bag).

Shape your sentence by bending the wire.

Using an embroidery floss of the same color as the wire, attach your wire sentence to the fabric.

I made small stitches at about every half inch or so. You only need to make small stitches to tack it down.

I used a red thread to dot the "i" with a french knot.

I also filled in the heart with a satin stitch in red.

Using a hot glue gun, I attached the fabric to the cardboard and hung it up with a metal clip.

Give it a try - the kids will love this one.

Comments (20):

Dawn

January 3, 2012 at 11:47 pm

Very industrious of you! Cleaver way to tack it down, too.

camilla

January 4, 2012 at 1:27 am

Thank you Dawn! So glad you like it! 🙂 C

WeKnowStuff

January 4, 2012 at 12:06 am

Never in a million years would I have thought you could do something so very creative with coated wire! Love this!

Dani

camilla

January 4, 2012 at 1:27 am

Dani, Thanks for stopping by and commenting – I always love to hear from my readers! 🙂 Take Care, Camilla

jana

January 4, 2012 at 12:06 am

Love this. You come up with such creative and simple ideas all the time. Looking for a book from you someday soon.
xo jana
ps-love the new blog design too.

camilla

January 4, 2012 at 1:26 am

Thank you so much Jana! I really appreciate your support! 🙂 Happy New Year, Camilla

Kelli

January 6, 2012 at 2:46 pm

LOVE IT! You are super talented!

Edith

January 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm

Wow this is simply gorgeous, I love the idea.
Thanks for sharing this =) And “Hi” from Paris – France.

camilla

January 9, 2012 at 5:20 pm

Merci Edith! 🙂
-Camilla

Blair

January 10, 2012 at 1:20 pm

I really love your idea. Could you use burlap as your fabric?

DM

January 12, 2012 at 4:49 pm

Cool! I love this idea !!!

Catrin

January 12, 2012 at 9:46 pm

Awesome. This looks amazing. I really like it. So many possibilities.
Greetings from Germany
Catrin

janiece

January 13, 2012 at 7:45 am

Very Cute! I can not wait to try it.

Sara

January 14, 2012 at 4:18 am

Hi Camilla – Love this idea. I may try non-rubberized wire since that is what I already have to work with.

camilla

January 14, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Sara – that sounds great – I am sure it will work. Best of luck with it – have fun! 🙂 Camilla

Allie

January 14, 2012 at 1:22 pm

Hi Camilla! LOVE this! I saw it on Ucreate and just had to pop over and see it. It looks so fun! It’s definitely pinned for later use. Thanks for sharing!