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SKIL OMT

On CraftGossip, at the moment, we are running lots of giveaways for some fabulous prizes. Look at what all you can win:

— A copy of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business edition

— A stunning Nino Bossi Top Zip Hippo Bag

— An Allure salad bowl in white pearl

— SKIL’s new oscillating multi tasker tool

— 3 month subscription to the Cricut Magazine and Cricut Book idea series

— Baby Chick Designs fine art tutu

And a couple more. Make sure you check them all out and get your entry in before they expire!

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Comments

  7. I would love to have Skils oscillating multi tasker tool. I have been drooling over one ever time I go to a home improvement store. All the giveaways are super though.

  8. I always check out the tools section of any store that carries them. I’ve been looking at the multitasking tool for awhile

Have you read?

Make Your Cross Stitch into an Iron On Patch

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]