The Sewing Mom

Last week I spent the entire week creating t-shirts for my Destination Imagination team which consists of 6 girls.  They had made a rough design telling me what they wanted and picked their shirt color and I went from there.

The team had named themselves the Kandy Kueens and their entire skit was centered around the “Kandy Kingdom” game they had designed.  Their set consisted of, among other things, a rather larger Kandy Kastle.  Amazingly, I actually found a candy castle design that I purchased while at an embroidery class and then used that as the center of the design on the fronts of their shirts.  I then designed the lettering using my Viking 3D Studio Embroidery software on my computer.  From there, I download my completed designs onto what is called a “d-card” and then insert that card into my sewing machine.  That is how my sewing machine knows what I want it to do.

Here are a few pictures of the process.  The first is the design being created on my computer.  The second is transferring a completed design to the d-card software.  Finally, a picture of the d-card and the d-card reader that attaches to my computer.