craftgrrl | More embroidery

I finished this last night, so I'm not in a total snit at the weather. (Which is, if you'll look through my front door window, WHITE AGAIN. Gr. Argh.)

Tiger's grumpy with me because I made her wear white to model it for me. It's her zipper cardigan, though. I dug it out of the Goodwill bag of stuff she's casting off. The only problem with it is that it IS WHITE. It's nothing a good pair of fairy wings can't fix, IMO. If she won't wear it, I'm going to sell it at the farmers' market. :-)

I also did not fail to notice she wore it to school this morning. Sheesh.

It's a little shiny in the wings because I didn't have a chance to soak off the water-soluble stabilizer - that's the stuff that keeps the squishy knitted yarns from poking up through the stitches - kind of like embroidering an Oreo cookie. I used a heavy stabilizer, brand name Solvy BadgeMaster. Probably overkill, but the lighter Solvys perforate and peel away before the stitch-out's complete. Maybe my stuff is just dried out a little, I don't know. I like BadgeMaster.

I don't claim creative kudos for the idea, though: it was a tutorial on Urban Threads