Christmas Postcards

I've been making Christmas Postcards for several years now and this week I got this years edition in the mail. I wanted the look of hand stitching without the time it takes to do hand stitching. I stitched a tree shape with black pearl cotton on white fabric, photocopied it and made a thermofax screen to print the cards with.

Above are some of the parts; the original stitching, the screen made from the stitching, Timtex, silk fabric that will be fused to the Timtex and brown shapes cut out for the tree trunk. 

The fabric fused to the Timtex and the tree trunks fused down.

Lined up ready for the screen printing.

The printed tree.

Sixteen red french knots on each one, this took some time!

A star drawn on with a metallic pen.

The backing has been fused on and each one is being getting a satin stitch edge.

Waiting in a pile to be addressed and sent on their  way.

I forgot to take a finished photo, but I still have a couple so I may remember for next time.

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