This is the best explanation/demonstration I've found of it, and she's got a link to a PDF that's got a number of differently sized templates. The smallest ones she's got are I think one inch across, finished, and that's a decent small size, the size of the last joint of your thumb more or less, but I'm sure someone determined could make them even smaller. You start to not need the templates at that size, though, I think, and run into other potential issues.
You'd have to be careful going over the seams-- of course once you've attached them you can remove the paper as that won't be an issue if they're in a hoop-- but the edges are whipstitched together, and I imagine it'd be rather difficult to embroider over a whipstitched seam. But! I bet it would be easy enough to work around that. Especially if you were really conscientious about trimming your underside edges, which I am, uhhhh not, though in my defense I had forgotten to bring any scissors yesterday so it was a pocket-knife or my teeth or nothing. LOL.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2019-02-21 12:10 pm (UTC)The smallest ones she's got are I think one inch across, finished, and that's a decent small size, the size of the last joint of your thumb more or less, but I'm sure someone determined could make them even smaller. You start to not need the templates at that size, though, I think, and run into other potential issues.
You'd have to be careful going over the seams-- of course once you've attached them you can remove the paper as that won't be an issue if they're in a hoop-- but the edges are whipstitched together, and I imagine it'd be rather difficult to embroider over a whipstitched seam. But! I bet it would be easy enough to work around that. Especially if you were really conscientious about trimming your underside edges, which I am, uhhhh not, though in my defense I had forgotten to bring any scissors yesterday so it was a pocket-knife or my teeth or nothing. LOL.