Bullseye’s on the Mark (Is that Cheesy?)

Most of my glass time is spent doing lampwork, making glass beads and for that I use 104 glass. The Italian stuff, Moretti or Effetre or Vetrofond with some American made Double Helix thrown in. When I fuse glass I use Bullseye glass. But Bullseye is more than a brand of glass. It’s a learning facility and studio and experience onto itself. They live for glass, with glass and are all about making it better for all the glass folk out there.

Every 2 years they throw a conference, BE Con, and 2009 was recently held. One of my glass buddies, Mickey Stuewe, attended this years conference and I plan to speak to her to find out what she learned and experienced there. I’ll post that conversation here. In the meantime, go to Bullseye web site and see all that they have to offer. They’re in Portland, Oregon and offer classes and put on exhibits regularly. You can also find really great information on the web site about glass and fusing as well as the other techniques they teach and know alot about.

And of course there is their selection of glass and other glass products…oh the colors. Yum! And the variety. Sheet, rods, frit in different grades, billet. What to do, what to do? I’m nuts for glass and if you are too you need to check out Bullseye.

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A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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