This is the last of the BIG embroidery projects I did for the Sulky booth at Spring Quilt Market.
Did I say big? It’s HUGE – 18 inches tall and 28 inches wide! It’s in one of those big oval quilt hoops you can find at Joann’s. The biggest one they had. It’s crazy big.
Here’s how I made it. . .
I sewed the strip of green solid fabric to the bottom of a strip of blue solid fabric. Easy peasy.
I appliqued the letters onto the blue fabric using fusible adhesive, and machine stitched around the edges in matching thread. No zigzag or satin stitch – just a simple straight stitch.
I stitched in all the flowers using the repeating floral pattern in the Continuous Stitches embroidery pattern.
But wait! How do you use printable embroidery transfer paper on a really big embroidery project – bigger than a sheet of paper?
I printed the floral pattern on multiple sheets of Sulky Sticky Fabri-solvy, laid them out in a repeat and stuck them to the fabric. It’s the same method I used on this cat, and I shared lots of detailed instructions and photos in that post.
I made the flowers fill the green area and spill up into the blue as if they were growing up into the sky.
Finally – I stitched the raindrops in dark blue on the light blue background. I wanted the raindrop stitches to be REALLY regular – more regular than my hand will do on its own – so I used the graph paper pattern in the same Continuous Stitches embroidery set to space them out. The raindrops themselves are just long lines of running stitches.
After I was done stitching I soaked away all the Sulky Sticky Fabri-solvy, ironed the piece dry, and put it back in the same enormous hoop for framing.
I used a single strand of Sulky Petites 12 wt. thread for all the stitching.
Here it is all by itself. That’s one really big embroidery project!
I loaded that up as a really big file size, so if you click on it you can zoom in super close to see the detail.
Here are the other BIG pieces I stitched for the same project.
Primavera – an Embroidered Springtime Girl
It’s really fun to stitch on such a huge scale. Give big embroidery a try!