A bit of craft help needed.

elsien

I'm planning to embroider a message onto a woollen hot water bottle cover I've bought from one of the pound shops as a Christmas present.
Only as it's a long time since I've done much but turn up jeans, can anyone advise on the best (and cheapest) way of transferring the writing onto the cover for me to oversew. If I try to do it without following some sort of guideline, it's guaranteed to turn out a bit weird.
Thanks.

boultdj

How about chalk?,at least it will come off easy if you do it to big/small.

meg72

Its been years since I did any of this but I used to use an iron transfer pen, these are available on ebay.

maman

If it's a knitted fabric it won't be easy to embroider straight on to it. You might be better off sewing your message on a piece of cotton and then sewing it on to the cover, like a label.

stiltwalker

When you say woollen, do you mean a close woven woolen fabric or knitted woollen? If it's the former I would go with chalk (tailors), if the latter I would draw the design out onto tissue paper carefully so as not to tear it then pin the outer edge down onto the knitted fabric and sew through it - when you've done just tear the paper away.

Pooky

Depending on the size of the bottle/message then have a look in "the w0rks" if you have one. They do packs of felt letters that are great to appliqu! on to things for personalising. Around 99p a pack I think.

Seakay

if it's fleece then embroidery wiil be realtively easy to do - write with a chalk or chalk pen which will wash away.
If it's really made of wool then write on tracing paper, greaseproof paper or rice paper and then sew through the paper and then rip the paper away at the end. If it is knitted then don't embroider too tightly, a chain stitch done using woollen yarn as thread would be good.
Or you could swiss darn it http://www.studioknits.com/bookpage55.htm

elsien

It's knitted woollen (or more likely acrylic), so thanks for the ideas, I'll have a play and see how I get on.