If you love the look of stitching on your work, but can't sew or have access to a sewing machine, try this. Use a plastic canvas grid, available from craft or needlework stores, very cheaply, and using a piercing tool and a craft mat, pierce your paper through every hole. The dots will be in a perfect straight line and evenly spaced. Then just take your pen and join up the dots. I think they are used for cross stitch, so are in the sewing department. They happened to be hanging up by the clearance items (which I always check out).
You can doodle through the holes as well, place the canvas on your paper and draw a dash along the bottom of the little square. For a double line, use two adjacent rows. If you want to leave a space for dots, crosses etc, simply draw 4, miss 3, draw 4 and so on.
You can buy a circle as well, which I was thrilled to find, as I love the look of doodled circles, but they are very hard to do.
How absolutely clever! Thank you for sharing! I always enjoy your work on the cricut MB. You are so creative!
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial Enfys - tfs xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lesson Enfys now I will have to search out those little templates!!
ReplyDeleteJuliex
Great ideas, En!! I use a kind of spiky pastry wheel thing for marking holes for faux stitching, but this is better. Have left you a note on the Funky Hand team blog! Take a wild guess at what it says!! lol :o)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant - will get is for sure :) Thanks Enfys!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, thanks for that Envys...I have got into stitching lately & my Mum gave me her sewing machine, but this looks quicker than getting the machine out & threading it up etc, thank you xx
ReplyDeleteYou are a genius!! Now I am going to have to do a drive-by on my way to work tomorrow!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the inspiration.
ReplyDeletexxxxxxx
Great idea thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteeileenpaul
Thank you. I would never have thought of the plastic canvas.
ReplyDeletegreat tip, thanks for sharing and i cant wait to give it a try.
ReplyDeletejennie
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How absolutely clever!
ReplyDeletexxx Sonja
Great tip - especially for those of us who can't sew
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial! Thanks for sharing. Awesome tips!
ReplyDeleteAnother item to add to my craft store shopping list. What a great idea. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for this tutorial!
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial, thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteYou know, being a quilter, you would think that I wouldn't be scared to do stitching on my cards. Thanks so much for sharing this technique!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's just a clever idea! I have tons of that at home and never would have thought of that. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a way to think outside the BOX...
ReplyDeletethanks for this idea...will have to check out the shops now ;0)
ReplyDeleteginny
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What a brilliant idea - so easy, so simple - anothrt why didn't I think of that moment!
ReplyDeletess
Great tutorial ,and lovely blogg candy
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