The welcome mat is a front porch staple, but there is something charming about this embroidered welcome screen made by freelance artist/crafter Abbey Hendrickson of the blog Aesthetic Outburst.
Here's what Abby has to say about the project:
We have an old-timey front door, the kind where you put the screen in for summer and replace it with glass in the winter. The screen we have is pretty beat-up, so I wasn't going to lose any sleep if I ruined it even more by cross-stitching the word "hello" on it. Here's my advice if you want to embroider a screen...make sure it pops out of the window or door so you can hold it, make the letters bigger than you think they should be, use a needle with a small eye, and sew neatly on the front and back. Luckily, the screen material is already a grid, so laying out a pattern shouldn't be an issue. This foray into screen-embroidering has inspired me to buy a *new* screen and embroider an even bigger message/pattern.
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I really love this idea. Very sweet.
Oh snap! Do you know how many people have walked through my garage screen door Kramer style!?!?!? It's one of those Home Depot retractable kinds, so I can always fix it, but this is the cutest solution to marking the almost invisible screen!!! Thank you for the awesome inspiration! PINNED:)
I am totally cross-stitching our house number onto a screen!
One photo, that's it? As usual, there's more info in the comments than the original posting. Try hiring some of your commentors, they'll write better articles.
This is a really fun idea...just make sure you don't run afoul of your home owners associations. They tend to frown on this kind of thing.
@rapidtransitman: had you followed the link, you'd have seen that the original post only showed one other photo, which was just the same shot but from the back.
@popsicle: your house # idea is awesome!
This is one of those great ideas that is totally unexpected yet seems inevitable once you've seen it. I predict we'll be seeing lots and lots of craft magazines with instructions for "welcome," house numbers, framing effects, arabesque curlicues for the screens' corners, etc. Then someone will do "Live. Laugh. Love." and it will all be over.
For now, it's still fresh and fun, though.
I agree w/BeeForBrian's musings. But I think the very last straw might be when we see "Keep Calm And Carry On" embroidered on a screen door -- along with a tiny crown icon, of course. ;-)
The crafty Brazilian ladies of Super Ziper turned a peg board into a gigantic needlepoint canvas with beautiful results.
@YONELLA, it looks like they may have been inspired by Makoto Oozu, a Japanese cross stitch artist who published a how-to on pegboard cross stitch in his book Hop, Stitch, Jump! in 2009. His had an <a>awesome 3D dinosaur skeleton, though.
oh nooo I messed that up in my excitement about dino bones, here is his sweet skeleton.
WOW. I am really failing tonight. Oof.
That multi-panel dino is really cool! @Holler, they probably were. One member of SZ is of Japanese descent. But more importantly, thanks to the internet, you can see trends from all over the globe. ;o)