TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 | Comments:
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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.
Very industrious of you! Cleaver way to tack it down, too.
Thank you Dawn! So glad you like it!
C
Never in a million years would I have thought you could do something so very creative with coated wire! Love this!
Dani
Dani, Thanks for stopping by and commenting – I always love to hear from my readers!
Take Care, Camilla
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.
Thank you so much Jana! I really appreciate your support!
Happy New Year, Camilla
LOVE IT! You are super talented!
Wow this is simply gorgeous, I love the idea.
Thanks for sharing this =) And “Hi” from Paris – France.
Merci Edith!
-Camilla
I really love your idea. Could you use burlap as your fabric?
Cool! I love this idea !!!
Awesome. This looks amazing. I really like it. So many possibilities.
Greetings from Germany
Catrin
Very Cute! I can not wait to try it.
Hi Camilla – Love this idea. I may try non-rubberized wire since that is what I already have to work with.
Sara – that sounds great – I am sure it will work. Best of luck with it – have fun!
Camilla
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!
Allie, Thanks! It is very fun to make and super easy! Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Camilla
I never would have thought to do this! Thanks for showing it off!
love this! it’s so adorable!
just came across your blog and i’m LOVING it.
thanks for such sweet wholesome ideas!
xox
HI, loved this idea so much I made 50 of them and mailed them out for Valentine Cards. Thanks so much for the idea.