ho ho ho sewing

Sharon are you doing machine embroidery or appliqué? I found these:

found them using the google search term "Chinese dragon graphic": ' know, it's weird after looking at the word "dragon" for a while, it begins to lose its meaning. ;-} HTH,

Beverly

Dear Sharon,

I think the embellished hoodie is a great idea. Consider lining the hood in a contrasting silky-satiny fabric that picks up one of the main colors in your dragon design. A colored zipper might add a nice touch, too.

As to locating dragon graphics, try googling dragon tattoos. Some of those designs work well after being simplified by being run through a photo editor.

If you don't find anything that floats your boat send me an e-mail minus the "delete" and "this". I've got a bunch of dragon images on my hard drive. Most are european but there're a few oriental beasties as well.

Thanks Kathleen. I'm debating lining the entire hood or just doing a bias binding type thingy at the front edge. I think it's going to come down to seeing how "gaudy" the whole thing looks once I get the dragon on there. ;) She almost never puts the hood up. So if I line the entire hood, that might be too much on the back of the hoodie. Remains to be seen. ;) (just one more "design as I go" project. lol)

I saw A LOT of tattoos when I was surfing earlier. And a lot of the people they were on too!!! Oh my goodness. lol

Thanks so much for the help. I'm surfing through what Beverly posted and if those don't work, I will email you. I really appreciate it.

Sharon

Applique with some satin stitching over it. I don't have digitizing equip. for the embroidery machine. But that's fine. I've been good maybe Santa will think of that. ;)

> Ya' know, it's weird after looking at the word "dragon" for> a while, it begins to lose its meaning. ;-}>

Thank you SO much!!! Several of those on the draconian site ought to work fine. I will have to fool around with the image editor and see if I can enlarge them some, but they will be great. Don't know how I missed that site. I looked on google and ask.com both. I was looking only under images though, so maybe that was the problem. Who knows!!!

Thanks again. I really appreciate it. :)

Sharon

I've played with digitizing on the software for my embroidery machine and I can save in several formats. If this weren't so close to the holidays I would offer to take a stab at it for you. :-}

Oh, you've been VERY, VERY GOOD! Santa really *ought* to put that under your tree. ;-)

You're welcome!

Beverly

Oh, what the heck! The tree and decorations are up, and DGS is coming Sunday to help me put up the outside lights. All gifts are bought/made and almost wrapped, all I have left to do is clean the house and bake cookies!

Sharon, pick a design, tell me what size you want, how many color changes you prefer, and what format you need. Also, if you have a maximum stitch count for your machine. I'll take a stab at digitizing one for you.

(Sorry for the self-reply.)

Beverly

More sites:

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