A Short Ordeal

 I really wanted to try and embroider my fraternity letters onto something.  Nothing that I own particularly called out to me, and if it did there's no way my first attempt at it was going on something expensive or sentimental.  Besides, perhaps my favorite and oldest pair of shorts I own are bright purple with SWIM in white letters across the back side.  I traced the letters of my sweatshirt to make 6 stencils, for this and for future reference if my insanity actually works.  The stripes on the purple print were vertical..but I thought it looked pretty awesome to slant the letters on it.  I like the result! 

The photos are my first attempt at satin stitches, or a zig-zag stitch at the smallest stitch length.  Oh my goodness I was afraid it would be difficult to maneuver the sewing machine around the shorts.. and it is already causing issues.  Just like half of the one piece of the first letter took a very long time to do.  I wonder why the machine sews so slowly.. bahh this project is a bit of a nightmare.  I went out for fusible web and stabilizer, but a lazy at the fabric store showing me where the stuff was somehow convinced me past my better judgment that I needed interfacing.  Doesn't help me too much when it only attaches fabric to one side.  I was going for the made with love look anyway! *blinks repeatedly*  No the hours I spent trying to make the stencils look just right.. lol  You know, some day I'm going to learn how to sew for real and then I won't have to fake it anymore.  And next time I'll do an APX scarf instead LOL or *gasp* iron-on letters!  Or dang it.. I could have made the letters into a patch and sewn/fused them on.