Monogram Embroidery Designs
If you have a flair for embroidery, monograms is one of the most fun designs to use to create something very elegant and festive on a garment or baby blanket. The craft of creating elegant monograms using your embroidery skills is a popular one and embroidered monograms are delightful because the owner can both see the wonderful craftsmanship and touch it. And because you have such a vast assortment of colors and textures in your threads that you use to embroider, you can put a lot of personality into a monogram that is just not possible with a monogram that is printed on paper by a computer.
It isn’t too difficult to find some great designs to create a unique monogram from. You may already have some font patterns among your many embroidery pattern books that will give you many very stylish and elegant fonts to use to create that perfect monogram design to embroider. As always, you will want to make copies of the patterns of the letters to be used and size and shape them to create a great looking monogram design. The classic look is to make the middle initial larger than the outer two initials. Sometimes people like to let the middle initial be the last name and the first and idle initials then surround it. That is a matter of taste and preference.
The procedure from there on out is standard embroidery stuff. You will transfer the monogram design to the fabric where you are going to create the monogram. Using an embroidery floss that is of a vivid color, you create the design in a way that stands out dramatically from the background cloth. Then you step through the embroidery process by hand or using your sewing machine. The most popular method is to use a satin stitch and sometimes it helps to impose that stitching over an underlying layer of running stitches because this creates texture and drama in the design.
Of course, you don’t have to stick with embroidery books. Many great designs for monograms can be had from the internet or by looking at existing monograms that you have or the person you are creating the embroidery already has. If the family has a crest from their history, that can be the base for a great embroidered monogram.
It just takes some ingenuity to grab that design and change it into a pattern to use to build your embroidered monogram. But using your creativity and your craftiness to come up with great new patterns is one of the things that makes embroidery such a great hobby. And when the outcome is a beautiful and stylish garment with an elegant monogram on it, you will be glad you looked for just the right pattern.