Remember last week’s gorgeous lavender New Zealand wedding? Well, today the bride is sharing her DIY for the embroidery table numbers. I really love this project and hope it will inspire you! Take it away, Suani.
{DIY Embroidered table numbers}
Materials:
· An embroidery hoop for each of your tables
· Quilting cotton
· Embroidery thread
· Needle
· Parchment paper
· Scissors
· Colored card
Instructions:
1. Using the inner hoop from the embroidery hoop, trace and cut out a circle of coloured
cardboard. Keep this to one side; you’ll need it at the end.
2. Cut a square out of your quilting cotton that is about 3” larger than the diameter of the hoop.
Iron flat and put into the hoop.
3. Print out your table numbers– you can play around with font and size depending on the
style you are after.
4. Trace your number onto a piece of parchment paper. Pin the parchment paper securely onto
the fabric in the hoop.
5. Thread your needle, double it up and knot the end. Using the parchment paper as a guide
for the shape of your number, sew, working from one side to the other, going from top to
bottom, with the thread pulled flat vertically.
6. After finishing the number, you should have a perforated line around the number. Gently
pull the excess parchment paper away from around the number.
7. Fold the excess fabric into the back of the embroidery hoop, and press in the card, which
should hold the excess fabric in place; neatening the back of the table number.
They are so fun to make, and the more you do, the quicker you get. The first one took me about 45 minutes, then I got into the groove, and they took me about 15-20 mins.
Don’t you love these!? And you don’t need to know how to sew to do them. I hope one of you lovely bride readers do these! If you do, let me know – I’d love to see them. Happy DIY’ing.
all photos by Joanna Wickham
4 Comments
These are great!!! Love new table number ideas!!!
Love this trend! Wish I had the skills to pull this off.
These are such a pretty detail and if you are getting dresses made it is a lovely way to use some of the offcuts to tie the look of the day together! Thank you so much for sharing this!!
Very nice detail, plus maybe get your mom or grandma or aunts or girlfriends involved to help!