Try This: Wire Embroidery For Your Home
Family Chic

Theory: I think I am awesome at embroidery. Fact: I need way more practice. If your embroidery skills aren't all they're cracked up to be, check out this simple wire embroidery idea that is sure to have you making quirky sayings for your home in no time flat! Want to see what the finished piece looks like?

Typographic prints are everywhere these days and it seems like words have infiltrated our homes in the blink of an eye. Forget keep calm and carry on, this technique is an easy way to make something yourself and get a little silly or a little romantic.

Camilla of Family Chic has used thin colored wire and bent it into the phrase of her choosing and then tacked it down with single stitches. It's like embroidery without all the pain or even a thimble! It's a simple and inexpensive way to personalize a space, give a gift or Valentine's sentiment with all the heartfelt, handmade love a craft has to give.

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Comments (4)

I feel like this has a lot more potential beyond just being lazy embroidery, in that you could probably use the fact that it's wire to add additional components. It would be cool to sew in the lines of a constellation, and then adding little LEDs for the stars. Admittedly, I am not nearly enough of an electronics person to be able to visualize how that setup would actually look/if it would work, but it works perfectly in my imagination, so...

What about this stuff?

http://bikeglow.com/

It's a thin, flexible cord that you can wrap around your bike and it lights up. The problem, of course, is that you can't shorten or lengthen it, so you'd have to plan your design carefully, Sure would be cool to have embroidery that lights up, though.

Um. Didn't we just all agree, on the "trends that suck" thread, that "quirky sayings for your home" need to be locked up in the attic and the key thrown away?

Embroidering with EL wire would be just about so awesome...