Finally – a freebie for May!

I was rummaging through a drawer full of T-shirts yesterday, looking for something to wear in this nice warm weather, and I found something which I suddenly realised might make a (very late!) May freebie. This is a design I did years and years ago, which was intended to embellish the neck of one of my T-shirts, and here’s the shirt as it turned out for me.

My version of the design

The design is just for one side of the neck, of course, and you mirror it for the second side. When I sent the design to Cherri, she still used it on a T-shirt, but she turned it so that it looks quite different.

Cherri's version

So you can use it in at least two different ways, and probably more. I haven’t tested it recently but there’s no reason that it shouldn’t stitch out all right, just as it did for me and Cherri those years ago. There’s no worksheet, because it’s all in just one colour. It’s for the 6 ½ x 10 ½ inch (160 x 260 mm) hoop, which is of course a large hoop which not everybody may have, but it’s not really possible to make it smaller, because if I did, it wouldn’t fit round a T-shirt neck

When you open the file you’ll find that there’s an outline in basting stitch (in vermilion) which may help you place the design on the fabric. If you don’t need to do this, just skip the vermilion, but if you do stitch it out, it should pull out easily

Here's the file, in .pes v.6