Celebrating 50 Years Embroidery Project

Customize your embroidery design.  Decide on the caption such as ‘Happy
Anniversary’, 50th Anniversary, ‘Just Married’, or ‘Celebrating 50 years’.    ‘Celebrating 50 yrs’ was added using Embrilliance ‘Essentials’ software.  Renaissance Alphabet works as a ‘keyboard’ font.   Meaning that you don’t have to add text one letter at a time.  Instead, you simply type in the whole word and hit enter.  The word is added to the design and in perfect alignment.

Measure the size of the picture opening on your photo album.   The size of the design should be proportionate to the photo space on the album cover. The photo album had a 4” x 4” opening for the picture.   The embroidery design was resized slightly so that it would fit within the frame.   The dimensions of
your embroidery design must be smaller than the opening on your photo
album.  

Gather the materials and read through the instructions before beginning.

Cut the fabric about 2” larger than the design dimensions.  (If dimensions are 6” x 6”, cut the fabric 8” x 8”.)  This allows for margins of error.

Iron and starch the fabric.  The starch will act like another layer of stabilizer.  

Hoop the medium weight cut-away stabilizer.  A medium weight cut-away stabilizer will also support the finished product once it is in the photo frame.

Follow the color stops (CS) and embroider the design.  
Embroider CS 1.  The heart and double rings will be stitched.

Embroider CS 2.  The text 'Celebrating 50 yrs' will be stitched.

Remove the design from the hoop.  Trim threads from the back. 

Trim excess fabric so that the design will fit into the picture opening.

Place the embroidery design in the opening of the photo album.

Congrats!  You have completed your project! 

Great job!