My Pretty (?) Hat
I loved the idea of embroidering a pattern or design onto a knit hat the very first time I saw it! Such a cute idea and it’s not a huge project if you take a couple shortcuts, like me. These are a few of my inspiration pins from my “Possible Projects” board. This looked like something I could handle.
My main short cut is buying a hat to start. Knitting a hat will probably be a future post ;)
This was one of those projects where I already had some of the supplies since I do like embroidery (I have a good collection of the thread). I love these colors!
One thing I did buy was some Sticky Water Soluble Paper Stabilizer. I just had to pick a design to print. This is the hard part… you should have seen how long it took me to pick a blog template, ha ha.
Surprisingly, it didn’t take too long to choose a design. I had an idea that I wanted trees so I just went to the clip art that is available in my copy of Word. I printed it directly onto that stabilizer paper and started stitching. I didn’t really need the hoop and I think it was a little big for this project.
As you can see, I stitched each tree in three sections. The hardest part was threading the needle and I was wearing my glasses, maybe I need to get one of those cool helpers with a light and magnification. I could not wait to soak this in the water and dissolve that stabilizer paper. I had never worked with that before and it was so easy! Now it is laying out to dry and soon we will see how it turned out.
WOW! I’m so happy with this! It’s actually pretty cute. I will definitely be doing this again. It would be a great project for a gift. I’m having visions of a navy blue chunky knit hat with a couple sunflowers stitched in with yarn. Wouldn’t that be cute? And I am feeling more confident about doing a sweater… maybe a future project?
