Starfish Tote Bag - Finished!

I finished Kari's Starfish Tote Bag!  I fought with the heavy canvas and eventually won. :)  I will be seeing her on Wednesday, I hope, and can give it to her then.  I used six strands of DMC floss (I always use that much) in purple split stitch and french knots.  Here are the pics:

Starfish Project Update

Here are the pics of the Starfish tote bag.  My friend Kari's nickname is Starfish. I have the one side finished, with the word Starfish on it in my handwriting.  I just used a pencil and wrote it on, then embroidered it.  The other side has one starfish on it and I will be embroidering 3 more smaller starfish on that side.  It is all done in split stitch and french knots.  I love to do both those stitches!  I hate the heavy tote bag fabric though. On with the pictures!

Sea Star/Starfish Project

I'm looking for a good lightweight paper I can print out embroidery designs on.  I'm using Sulky Solvy stabilizer right now, which you can dissolve with water.  It actually works better if you just rip it out from the threads, carefully, of course.  I tried tracing paper and regular copy paper, the first ripped too easily, the second was too heavy. Any ideas for something in between those two? Sulky Solvy is $8 plus tax for 12 sheets, so not very economical.

Here is the very start of a tote bag project for my best friend, Kari.  I guess this will have to be a secret blog, for awhile at least, cause I want to surprise her.  I printed out some free starfish stencil patterns on the Solvy paper.  I had to do it a couple times because I need paper around each starfish to hoop with the embroidery hoop.  Her nickname is Starfish.  I chose purple thread because it goes nicely with the hot pink. I think I'm just going to use stem stitch for all the starfish. I probably won't get started on this for awhile.

I just found out the proper name for a Starfish is Sea Star.  I like that too!