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I was considering to buy a cutwork design from Cathy de France. She is a superb designer and digitizer and I love her designs. Here is a link to her website. Scroll down and on the right-hand side there are a few beautiful designs.
Hugs, Lidia
78093Cutwork has to be my favourite embroidery. I think it is because I feel as if I am doing something instead of just watching my machine. My favourite designs are from Hatched in Africa. The main thing to look out for is being careful with the hoop when removing from your machine for cutting. I always cut out the 'holes' on a table so I keep everything as flat as possible. I would suggest that you have a trial run on a piece of material, similar to the fabric that you will use for finished result. I usually 'do' my cutwork on a bought shirt to make it a bit different. I attach one of the first shirts I did. You can also see the wrong side of the butterfly I did on the yoke at the back. For this shirt I used cotton embroidery thread which gives a lovely finish with no shine. Good luck and I hope we see something from you in projects. Sarah.
by noah
05 Aug 2012
Wowwwwwwwwwww its awesome Sarah !!Can you come visit and give me private lessons??Pretty please??hugs
253107It's hard to tell what to look for. Personally I like the holes to be cut not too small and the satin stitch rather dense to cover the cut edges well. Just try a fee freebies.
Bernini, Pfaff and Husqvarnaviking have beautiful designs to go with their cut work needles - which can be used without those needles, just cut with scissors instead. I found no free designs on their sites, but they do sell nice (and expensive) collections.
If you have their (latest) software you can easily digitise some yourself.
Should you have Embird then you can use a tutorial from Clipartopolis, University section, Embird tutorials - I followed that one and loved the result so much that I made several.
by muflotex
05 Aug 2012
Thank you Martine, still thinking about the 2012 update for Embird and will check Clipartopolis Uni asap
145196Sue I bought the scissors and a feww other things to try this but never tryed yet lol hugs carolyn
by muflotex
05 Aug 2012
Carolyn, you know my slow pace, like a challenge in cutwork? just kiding you would have figured it out long before I do, but is it on my list LOL
360437Watch Stitch Delight, too. They are bringing back older designs into the new website, and they're $1 for a day or so while they're reintroduced. She does a lot of FSL, Battenburg, and some cutwork. It would be worth $1 or so to get some designs to try, see if you like doing it.
33451I found this link for you. These are beautiful.
Happy Stitching!
by airyfairy
05 Aug 2012
Thank you Bev for this freebie, although quite difficult for a first time. There is a lot of cutting out. It would look stunning on the corner of table napkins. Sarah.
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