FEBRUARY2 015

URBAN THREADS

Ideas to inspire your threads

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Passport to AdventureThe adventure continues! Take a crafty trip around the world with the new Passport to Adventure series of embroidery designs, with a different country visited monthly.

After last month’s jaunt to England, continue your expedition with this brand new design celebrating Italy! This beautiful collage combines iconic images in detailed running stitch with a splash of painterly, layered color.

Get this charming Italy collage design in your choice of five sizes; the elements are available individually, too! It’ll be cute on tote bags, throw pillows, and lots more.

Each part of the design is also available on its own, so you can collage your own looks!

Passport to Italy

Drink UpSpeaking of Italy ... who wants wine?What kind? All kinds! Embrace your favorite reds with this blend of wines, gracefully held within a wine bottle. Perfect for wine towels, cases, totes and more!

Red Red Wine

RestyledSweater

Make It ChicEver find that super cute, but too large and slightly out-of-style sweater at a thrift store? Maybe you found a great deal off aclearance rack, three sizes too big. Or maybe you have anoversized sweatshirt that has been shoved to the back of your closet in sacrifice to the clothes gnomes. Follow this simpletutorial to glam up and fit that old, baggy garment!

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Baroque Natura -Feather

Baroque Natura Pack

NEW COLLECTION

BaroqueNatura

Dimensional BeautyArtfully digitized dimensional embroidery combines with graceful color transitions in a stylish new collection of designs! These Baroque Natura motifs are wonderfully versatile -- stitch just one, or combine a few, on garments and decor alike.

With three colors each, these ombre designs will lend themselves beautifully to your own favorite color combinations!

Baroque Natura -Butterfly

Baroque Natura -Raven

Beauty in DarknessDark can be pretty too. The fantastical, the macabre, the imaginative, all have a touch of beauty and grace with the right design. Break from the usual with some darkly beautiful designs new this February.

Folk Spring Skull

Faerieland Crest

Calligraphic Imagine

Lace DreamboatSailing through puffy clouds, this magical little dreamboat is light, airy, and oh-so-cute to stitch. It’s just three pieces of lace and a wooden dowel, but when those things combine, you have a gorgeous 3D ship that’s ready to set sail on its own, or in a fleet of delicate ships.

Here’s a basic rundown. For full instructions, check out the tutorial here!

LaceDreamboat

Stitch a whole fleet for a stunning window display or gorgeous mobile.

Dreamer’s Sailboat

(Lace)

State LoveShow your love for the places you hold near and dear with cute new state outline designs! This brand new State of the Heart collection, available in five sizes from tiny to huge, includes stitchy dotted-line outlines for each state, along with tiny icons to mark the spots you love -- a heart, star, skull, and more.

Fashionable and timeless all at once, these new embroidery designs will find all sorts of homes -- stitch ‘em on shirts and totes, or display them on pillows, towels, and more decor! Overlap or combine two or more, and craft gifts to connect with family and friends, near and far. These locally minded designs are sweet for kids and grown-ups alike!

State LovePillow

Stitch up a pillow that keeps the places that matter to you close to home, using cute applique state outlines.

State of the Heart Pack

Combine a state with some lettering to show a little love to the place you call home

Add your own fabricunderneath for a bigpop of color withoutextra stitches

NEW COLLECTION

State of theHeart

State of the Heart PackState of the Heart - Texas

State of the Heart - Minnesota

I Love You Deerly

True LoveFebruary is a month of love, and

even if the reason to stitch a valentine has passed, stitching a little love never needs a season!

Grab a few of these lovelydesigns to warm the heart and

decorate the home.

Victorian Heart (Lace)

Delicate Lacy Heart

Button It UpIt’s the little details that make all the difference! Take garments, bags, and decor to the next level with a new collection of embroidered buttonhole designs.

Available in five sizes for buttons ranging from 0.5” to 1.5”, these designs are all smaller than 4” across, so they’re suitable for any embroidery machine.

NEW COLLECTION

Buttoned Up

Buttoned Up Pack

Buttoned Up - Enchanted Heart

Buttonhole

Optical FunSometimes it’s fun to play some optical games with clever embroidery. Add a “tufted” look to projects or even “hinge” up a fabric journal with these unique illusion-style designs. It may not be real, but who cares when it looks this cute?

Button Tuft

Gothic Hinge

All That SassWithin each of us lies a crafty rebel, determined to be revealed. Show off your own audacious spirit with these wicked sewin’ and knittin’ sayings! Sure to become instant classics, these modern tattoo-style designs are perfect framed, and also play well with totes, apparel, and home decor.

Don’t act all innocent, crafters. We know you’re full of sass...

NEW COLLECTION

WickedStitchery

Wicked Stitchery Pack

Wicked Stitchery - I Put the Mess in

Domestic

Wicked Stitchery - I’ve Got 99 Problems

Wicked Stitchery - Makers Gonna Make

Wicked Stitchery - Darnknit

Be BoldSo what if you love skeletons AND rainbows? No reason you can’t have both. Urban Threads designs are made to suit all tastes, even the bolder choices you won’t often find elsewhere. Never compromise. You can have your kittens and butterflies and still keep your dragons and skulls!

Thread NestingRainbow Skull Trio

Sooner or later,every embroiderer

encounters a thread nest. Learn how to balance

your machine’s thread tension to help your

stitching go smoothly!

Be ColorfulBring your designs to life in new and unexpected ways. Painterly style designs allow for a whole pallete of experimental colors. If you’re stuck on inspiration, check out some of our monthly color inpirations on the blogfor ideas.

Engraved Butterfly and Roses