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I'm asking because I have an idea for an embroidery project based on one of humon's designs and I'm trying to figure out the best way to make the pattern (I don't know what possessed me - I haven't done any embroidery since I was about 10 and I'm basically having to reteach myself everything).
Because ideally I'd like to do it on regular cotton fabric rather than cross stitch fabric, so far prick and pounce seems like the most feasible. But knowing me that's probably making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
There is also flat stitch and a couple of other embroidery methods for plain fabric rather than the cross stitch
For most of those kinds just transferring the black outlines humon draws to your fabric will give you the pattern you need and you could do the black outlines in stem stitch - you can use any image program to adjust the size to fit the area you want (just choose the cm/inch resize instead of pixel)
Something I did a long time ago was to stencil the image I wanted in the colours I wanted onto the fabric with fabric paint and then add some embroidery to give it a bit more life, which might be something you might consider to do as well.
Anyways - just some thoughts to help you decide what you want to do with your project, most important is that it ends up being what YOU want and done how you want it
Apparently if you take a photocopy or inkjet printout and dampen it slightly you can iron it directly onto fabric. Some sources recommend dampening the printout and/or the fabric with a solvent diluted in water (the suggestions include turpentine, white spirit, and even nail polish remover). Other sources say you definitely shouldn't do this because the solvent is flammable.
They have a point, but isn't that the reason for diluting it? Especially in the case of nail polish remover, which is so dilute to begin with, I would assume the risk of fire is pretty low. Why would otherwise legitimate-looking craft websites suggest something that will make your ironing board burst into flames? And I would think that if you place a dish towel on top of the paper before ironing it, that would lower the risk further. I have a hard time believing that just water and heat would be sufficient to transfer the image, but of course I'm not keen to start a house fire.
Have you heard of or tried this method? What's your POV on using a solvent?
At the risk of sounding like a hater of sorts:
If the site(s) you were looking at was(are) American then I'd say that the bit about fire is written there to avoid litigation if things go wrong for someone, basically because the American way of suing if things go wrong means that if sites don't cover their behind they will end up in trouble
I do doubt that it would *instantly* set things on fire, you'd have to really overheat things first which would probably be achieved by ignoring the instructions of how long to heat it or what strength solution to use. That said a cheap Teflon baking sheet liner put on the ironing board would 1) Avoid your ironing board getting set on fire and 2) Make it warmer so you'd have to either heat for shorter or have the iron a little lower or both.
About the water alone working: this would be a good thing to test on a scrap of fabric in advance, possibly even using a failed printout of something else
I don't trust my artistic "ability" not to botch up the tracing, which is why I went looking for other options.
You don't sound like a hater, you sound like a realist!
That's a very good tip about the baking sheet and a very good point about solvents being smelly. Plus you've reinforced my own thoughts about the likelihood of things catching fire. Thank you - once again you've given me some excellent food for thought.
Aha I see - if you find at a later date that you need some practical help after all let me know - I have the right kind of pencil for this and could do this for you if you like
I'm glad I could help you with your thinking process
I was planning to keep it just as an outline anyway (I don't want it to be too complicated, seeing as it's my first project in years) except perhaps for the characters' hair and a few accents, so I think stem stitch and maybe flat stitch or something like it would be perfect for what I want to do.
Cool - sounds like a great plan
To be honest it would probably have been faster to print out the image and use a graph transparent sheet to make a pattern by hand lol