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Elle · Hermes

DIY - Thoughts?

ILoveChoo · Hermes

I've done that before! We used to do them and give them as christmas gifts when we were broke.

I love that color shirt with the green leaves- I bet that will look super cute!

splash · Kenneth Cole

That sounds really cute!! I love the color combination. The only thing is, I've heard that that kind of applique doesn't always stay on well - you might want to sew it a little after ironing on, just to be sure.

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

Oh I think it will be great. You could do a grouping of the leave on the lower corner of the top, and maybe have some vines edging up the side?

Oooh, oooh, oooh, I want to try this!

NCshopper · Hermes

Super cute idea! I've thought about doing something similar with a beater tank. You could get some leaf appliques and layer them up the strap of a beater and it'd look super cute. Definitely try it and let us know how it turns out!

Elle · Hermes

Okay - good to know I'm not totally crazy thinking this could be cute! Yay!

Thanks for the tip Splash - Depending on what kind of applique/design I go with I think I'll either go around the entire perimeter with embroidery floss, or at least tack it down in key places.

Here's a site with some fun iron-ons to browse:

www.laughinglizards.com http://www.denverfabrics.com/index.htm

anyone else have any site recs?

Here are some more cute ones:

-- Edited by LMonet at 13:32, 2005-08-22

Claudia · Gucci

I was planning to do the same thing with iron on transfers. My sister got some the other day.

Let us it when you're done.

dot · Marc Jacobs

that sounds so fun! i love projects! you will have to show us the end results!

needsfashionadvice · Kate Spade

I would love to put this one on a shirt!

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Hedvig · Coach

I think that's a great idea and I've been planning on doing something similar myself!

There was this very pretty brown cami on Free People's web site a while back that I'm hoping I can copy. It had a few lace ribbons sewn along and beneath the top edge. I'm planning on using a cami like this:

sage · Dooney & Bourke

Wow. I bought some appliques last week to do this very thing. I just got some cheapy ones at the dollar store but I am hoping it will work out ok. Next I am going to try actually embroidering! I think the green leaves on the purple top will look great.

and splash, thanks for the heads up, I will put a few stitches around the iron on.

laken1 · Hermes

sage wrote:

Wow. I bought some appliques last week to do this very thing. I just got some cheapy ones at the dollar store but I am hoping it will work out ok. Next I am going to try actually embroidering! I think the green leaves on the purple top will look great.

and splash, thanks for the heads up, I will put a few stitches around the iron on.

Great idea - I've been doing embroidery on ON tanks & I'm so excited & proud of myself. Then I have original tanks that I really love....I hadn't thought of appliques - great idea!

For those of you wanting to try embroidery, this site has less "ducky in a bonnet" stuff - if your mom embroidered when you were little, then you know what i mean!
www.sublimestitching.com

-- Edited by laken1 at 08:55, 2005-08-23

Elle · Hermes

laken1 - Do you do all the embroidery by hand?!? How difficult is it?

laken1 · Hermes

LMonet wrote:

laken1 - Do you do all the embroidery by hand?!? How difficult is it?

Yes by hand and i think it's easy. If you can iron & sew a button, i think you can do it. Well, outlining is easy - filling in is harder but i haven't done it much. I got that stitch-it-kit on the sublime site - the directions are VERY easy, but i got mine at amazon for about $8. These are the last 2 that i did, well, 2 that were already loaded in photobucket

sorry so big, like someone else (honey?) said - photobucket pictures are huge or tiny.

-- Edited by laken1 at 10:16, 2005-08-23