Honoring Their Service Through Embroidery
Honoring Their Service Through Embroidery
This Memorial Day, we pause to honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. We also extend our gratitude to all those who have served and continue to serve today.
The armed forces play a vital role in protecting our freedoms, supporting peacekeeping missions around the world, and assisting communities during times of crisis and disaster.
Through every challenge, their courage, dedication, and selflessness continue to inspire us all.
“To the men and women who protect, serve, and keep us safe, we thank you!”
In a small way, our Wilcom staff and management would like to show
our appreciation in the best way we know how… Embroidery!
Get the Tools, Threads, Frames & Materials Ready
Before bringing the design to life, it’s time to prepare all the essentials — threads, stabilizers, frames, fabrics, and embroidery tools.
Lest We Forget
Our digitizing team carefully selected the stitch types best suited to bring this design to life, creating a look that is both open and richly textured.
EmbroideryStudio offers a wide range of creative stitch types, allowing each design element to be showcased beautifully.
Stitch types selected
The design itself is 45cm in height containing nearly 90,000 stitches, and because of the use of many creative, open stitch types, it only took 1 hour to stitch out.
For the sunset background, we used a combination of Accordion Spacing (Shading and Open Fill Element) and Florentine Effect (Curved Fills Element). Trapunto to force travel runs to the edges, so they cannot be seen.
The bright red poppy flowers are digitized with Ripple Stitch 3mm spacing (Spiral Fill Element), Double Square (Chenille Stitch) for the flower centre, and Stem Stitch for the leaves.
The Maze Fill Element is used for the flag, and the soldier silhouette ‘reversing and resting on arms’ in solid black tatami.
And finally, the golden scrolls hold the words ‘Lest we forget.’
The fabric's
The local fabric stores had a shipment of beautiful poppy-flower fabric that is perfect to pair with organic calico and a royal blue polka-dot ribbon.
The fabrics are washed to pre-shrink them, then cut to size, ready for the final embroidery.
These Wilcom designed and embroidered laundry bags are ready for its owners.
Thank you to the Defence Force men and women for your service.
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