Tues Tutorial~ 2022 Christmas Cards

       Every year I have made the Christmas cards to hand out at church.  Here is this year's card and the process I used to create them.  

 

       You could say it is an upcycled project because a piece of a shear curtain was used to make these cards. enJOY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To start designing the card,

  pieces of paper the size of the card

were used

 for designing space.

 

 The size of the star was determined 

and drawn 

as well as determining the size of fabric needed.

 

I spent far more time than I imagined

just drawing a simple star that would be stitched.

I poked holes at the intersections,

so they could be marked on the card

with a heat sensitive pen.

As my sketched design above determined,

a larger than 3 inch wide blue strip

 and a larger than 2 inch wide white (shear curtain) strip were

cut, overlapped and stitched.

The stitching was rough to imitate 

a snow scenery.

 Pieces were roughly cut larger than the 

folded card stock

that was cut from half sheet of card stock.

The star imagine was laid on top of the card

and the heat sensitive pen

marked in the holes.
 

 

Then I was able to stitch from one hole to another

without drawn lines.

A gold top thread and white bobbin thread were used.

My spools of gold thread were bought way back

several years ago.

I hear the thread is better quality these days.

I had it to shred a few times.

I quickly learned not to let my thread cutter

cut the thread, and instead

pull the thread away from machine and cut.

This enabled the machine to start with longer threads

which it liked doing better.

When the thread shread and broke,

it was better to do a total rethread.

Yes, it was a bit fussy,

but the job was done patiently.

The card was then trimmed of excess fabric.

The free Open Office Word processor

was used

creating 3 columns

to make the following

Bible verse to sew on the card.

 

The piece of paper with the Bible verse was stitched 

across the top and bottom in white thread.

After the black dots were ironed away,

then the card was closed and stitched

around all four edges in white thread

making the card become like a post card that

would not need an envelope.

 Do you know how hard it is to 

photography sheer fabric

without it looking blurred?