Embroidered Wedding Invitation

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My sister just got married and it was a great weekend.  I hadn’t done this in awhile, but I decided for her wedding present I would embroider her invitation.  I went rummaging through the attic looking of my lettering book, but I could not find it anywhere – so to the good old internet to look at alphabets.  I couldn’t quite find the one I wanted but I found one that was close and I used that as my guide.  I did not leave myself a whole lot of time to get this done and I probably did more than I should at some sittings – but I did pay for it, having to rip out a couple of rows, ugh!  But the result was beautiful, if I don’t say so myself.

Embroidered Wedding Invitation

Items Needed

Wedding invitation
Linen or cross stitch material
Embroidery thread
Needle
Masking tape
Graph paper
Embroidery hoop

1. Decide on the alphabet that you are going to use and then graph out your invitation.  I used to graph it so it all lined up, but now I just graph each line and then add up the space to get my center point.  This makes the graphing go much faster.

2. Tape the edges of your material you are going to embroider on.  Then determine your center point – I just fold the material in half and then in half the other way and mark the center with a pencil.

3. Pick the color embroidery thread you are going to use – I like to match it to the invitation color.  The thread is 6 thick – I pull apart in half – so 2 threads of 3 strings.  Secure your embroidery hoop – I like to start at my center point – and start your lettering.

4. Once your lettering is complete – you need to decide on a border.  I like to match mine to what is on the invitation.  I chose to do a very simple double border.

5. I did the outside border first, which was just a simple single cross stitch.  I first did the slash one direction all the way around and then completed the “X” on the way back.

6. The inside border was a simple back stitch.

7.  I finished in just the knick of time to get it to the framers and get back before we left for the wedding – yeah!

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