making your own monogrammed stationary

I’ve had a set of silk swatches sitting (boy, say that fast 3 times!) on my studio desk for awhile now:

I decided that they would be perfect to use as my background for the embroidered cards. I ironed on a heavy-weight fusible interfacing (not necessary, but it’s sooo much easier this way!) and trimmed them down into little rectagles using my pinking shears:

I’m using brown, green & blue for my wedding colors

I decided to play around and used a few different ways of machine stitching to make the monograms. I started off with doing free-motion embroidery, using plain sewing machine thread on two of them. I then switched to using a normal zig-zag stitch. I highly recommend making a few swatches to make sure you have the stitch length & density right before you start on the silk!

Tomorrow, we’ll stitch them on to cards.