Green Sleeveless Blouse with Butterflies
Project Description
This blouse is simply and subtly embellished with some outline butterflies on the front collar points. Sometimes all you want is small touch.
For example, compare this blouse with another green sleeveless summer shirt with white butterflies from Winged Jewels. This one has more “wow” power and because of that, it’s much more memorable and less versatile.
The simpler version does present some hooping dilemmas. You’ve got to secure a small collar point in the hoop somehow for stitching and of course, you’ve got to make sure your design is aligned properly. I actually stitched both collar points in one hooping.
Having a digitizing program is certainly helpful for projects like this and all you have to know is how to draw a line around your designs and apply a running stitch to it to create a customized basting shape.
Built-in basting functions only add a rectangle defined by the bounding box of the design. Such a basting would not adequately secure the collar points to the stabilizer and the foot can catch on the edge of the fabric causing the project to shift.
These designs are included with my second Craftsy class, 20 Things Every Machine Embroiderer Should Know and are not currently otherwise available.
Credits
Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (3/16/2015)