Have an older garment that you love but could use a bit of a facelift? It’s easy with some basic, stylish designs and an embroidery machine.

I chose Scroll08 from Elegant Scrolls, which I then duplicated and resized making one smaller. I stitched them in copper Softlight Metallic thread and paired them evenly down the front of this vest placing them next to the buttons and buttonholes.

Scroll designs like these add a fashionable and decorative touch without appearing too fussy and work well even on the hound’s tooth pattern in the vest.

Building Blocks are made specifically for combining new designs. If you have Generations, download the MNG version for best use.

These designs are also available in stitch file formats and the same effect can be achieved with most any customizing program such as Embrilliance Essentials.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (5/23/2011)

Products Used

• (lgb004) Elegant Scrolls Building Blocks
• (lgb00402) Scroll 2
• (ESS) Embrilliance Essentials

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Purchased linen blouse embellished with stylized flowers from Floral Fantasy. To duplicate this project, you’ll need to have editing software such as Embrilliance Enthusiast to isolate some elements and a customizing program like Essentials to recombine them.

For the back, I extracted and removed the bottom flower from design #4, then mirrored that design end to end. I then reinserted the extracted flower and resized and rotated it to fit the space nicely.

For the front of the blouse, I extracted various leaves and flower elements from different designs and combined them to create a new design for the front of the blouse.

Typically I pull out more elements than I actually use than spend some time mirroring, rotating, and resizing until I’m happy with the result. Print the design at actual size and trial it against your garment. When you’re happy with the composition, stitch it on your garment. I mirrored the same design for both sides of the blouse.

Check out the white cotton version of this same design. The blouse is from the same company (J. Jill), just a different fabric and color. For that one, I chose to go bold and stitch in a dark charcoal gray on white as opposed to the subtler tones of green and yellow I used for the green blouse.… Read the rest

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Purchased linen blouse embellished with stylized flowers from Floral Fantasy.

Instead of black, I used a dark charcoal for a less harsh appearance. The flowers in this set are colored pink and green but that doesn’t mean you have to stitch them in those colors.

The beauty of stylized designs like these is that they can work well in a range of colors—or stitch them monochromatically. The ‘thread police” will not come after you for choosing your own color scheme!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (5/16/2011)

Products Used

• (lgs010) Floral Fantasy
• (ESS) Embrilliance Essentials
• (RHF) Embrilliance Enthusiast

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A bit of creative work with fonts in Generations creates the “dive flag” stripes on the “D” and “E.”

I used a dive float to stand in for the “I” and the fin replaces the “V.” Float the word over some waves and I have a shirt that declares I’m a scuba diver.

Creative combinations like these are great left chest designs to stitch on clothes for vacation or recreational wear.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (5/10/2011)

Products Used

• (lgb008) Summer Fun Building Blocks

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Building Block embroideries are specifically designed to allow you creative license to build your own compositions. I used a purchased black, short sleeve pullover sweater and stitched with Strawberry Red Softlight Metallic thread.

I used most, if not all, the designs included with Elegant Scrolls Building Blocks to create a large full front design, shaping the placement to flow around the neck and taper down into a figure enhancing “V.”

Tip: Build one side and then mirror for the other.

Other notes: Two layers of black no show mesh stabilizer and black bobbin thread.

Unlike other metallic threads, Softlight can be substituted thread for thread with 40wt poly or rayon embroidery thread. It’s softer than other metaillics so you won’t end of with a scratchy, itchy, uncomfortable garment. Plus, it’s less shiny so using it in a large, full cover design won’t look gaudy.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (3/19/2011)

Products Used

• (lgb004) Elegant Scrolls Building Blocks
• (ESS) Embrilliance Essentials

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