Making Letters Using Line - A How To

Yesterday I started the year off by sharing my 2013 stitched numbers. When I started to make this I was looking for a way to create the numbers using only LINE --
January is all about line, right?
The stitching part was for myself, for this method of using lines can be done with pen & ink, paint...
and, the list can go on and on.

So, here's how I went about it:

 Using my ipad. I found  find some letters --
then I pulled the screen to make them larger
and laid tracing paper over the screen to trace the numbers

Putting the ipad away,
I traced over the numbers in marker and cut each apart

Then placing them onto my printer each was enlarged to my chosen size.
Once enlarged trace them onto freezer paper
cut each number out and ready for ironing into place.

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fun time - I went looking for shiny fabric of course
and then the most sparkling thread I could findI
narrowing it down to just two colors from
all this wonderful Kreinik thread I had.

to prepare for stitching I sandwiched my fabrics with batting
and even though the freezer paper sticks to the fabric I knew
that I would be traveling with it so I basted it all together with thread

It was time to stitch, so using  my favorite 'seed stitch'
I stitchedl in all the areas  OUTSIDE the freezer paper letters

once the outside are was completed I removed
all the basting thread & freezer paper letters
then using my 2nd color of thread
I stitched again close to the edges of each to glitter them up

   

More about line and fun ways to study it and use it, tomorrow!

Stitching On!
~Rose