Art Break! - 'Die Mad About It' Embroidery

This is a fun little piece I made for Miss Buttons :D 

For this I sketched it up in my art ideas book.

To start I drew up some guide lines for the lettering.

These were too narrow.

Better!

I made this template for what I want the text to look like (on PowerPoint, because I'm a computer wizard).

I started doing the letters really carefully, but I soon found I was avoiding doing it all together because I wanted it to be perfect.

No, let's start again. This time keeping it fun.

I put it in a bigger hoop (when my hoops finally arrived) and started the surrounding decorations.

My new 2B pencil to sketch things out.

I washed the pencil marks off and cut away excess fabric.

How I sew up the back.

I also used this teal felt to back it.

My little sewn signature.

Done!

Verdict: She loved it!