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For when all you need is underwear...
Kids not sure where their knickers are kept? Other half hopeless at putting away the washing? Maybe you're just like me and have a really strange sense of humor. Either way, label up your drawers of drawers with Dandelyne's mini embroidery kit.

This tutorial will take you through how to use your kit to embroider a design and attach the fabric to the mini frames - feel free to treat it as a general tutorial for the kit as well as the specific project detailed if you're not wanting to label up your y-fronts.

Kits available from Dandelyne's Etsy store or http://dandelyne.com/

Posted by HotPinkCrayola from Holmfirth, England, United Kingdom • Published 12th August 2015 • See HotPinkCrayola's 95 projects »

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HotPinkCrayola published her project Pants Drawer Label 12 Aug 06:00

Step 1
Sketch your pants (or use the transfer paper provided in your Dandelyn kit) onto your base material. Clamp it into the 3" embroidery hoop.
Step 2
Starting with yellow thread, using 2 strands of the 6, satin stitch your pants shape.
Step 3
Switch to two strands of grey thread, and satin stitch the waistband of your pants. Use a backstitch to add the 'Y' shape, and to write 'pants!' across the top.
Step 4
Clamp your pants into the 5.5cm frame included with the kit, after first removing the attached necklace chain (set this aside to use in another project - waste not want not!).

Trim your excess fabric, leaving around 5mm/0.5cm flapping at the back (see next step for photo).
Step 5
Here's what your trimmed back will look like.Tighten the top clamp well, avoiding wrinkles in your pants fabric.
Step 6
Use a glue gun (or superglue if you'd don't own a glue gun) to secure the flapping fabric edge down to the back insert.
Step 7
Make sure to smooth all the fabric down so that none remains outside the hoop.
Step 8
Carefully glue the back panel in place.
Step 9
Stick it to your knickers drawer! If it's temporary use a large wadge of bluetack, or for more permanent labeling use your glue gun.

You could create a whole range of these for your different drawer contents - t-shirts, socks, jeans, pjs - whatever you need! You could even go crazy and expand your embroidered labels to your craft room, kitchen, bathroom - basically anywhere with drawers.