Yesterday we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday. Not how we had hoped to celebrate, but we marked the occasion in a low-key Covid-era way. Typically, my mom hosts a quilting retreat for her sisters and me over her birthday weekend. Over the years, the number of days has increased and its always a fun time. Because of Covid, she didn't feel comfortable having her sisters travel and stay with her so just mom and I spent the weekend sewing. We had fun and we both made lots of progress on our 2020 stash buster quilts.
To celebrate her day, I designed an SVG file to cut a vinyl decal to make her a shirt to wear. I made some sketches, and even drew my own wording, that I scanned into Adobe Illustrator and traced. Then I began arranging the motifs into a design. When I was happy with the design, I saved it as an SVG which is the type of file my Silhouette Cameo 4 uses to cut.
This was the first time I tried to design my own SVG file and was really pleased with how it turned out. It was a little time consuming weeding out the pieces of vinyl from the cut design because of the intricacy, but other than that, it worked great.
Mom gave me a hard time for making her a shirt advertising her age but when I explained that I was making a 60 one for me (I turn 60 in August) and one for my daughter (she turns 40 in October) for our "40-60-80" trip this summer, she agreed to wear it. LOL!
Have any of you designed your own SVG files? What types of designs have you made? I'd love to hear about them!
Happy Crafting!
~Sharla
Nice job! NO, I've never designed my own, don't think I'm creative enough but I love using my Scan-n-Cut 225DX and my heat press to do shirts. I've lost about 60 lbs since you saw me last so now I might can WEAR a T-shirt and not scare people! I've got to come up with some good ideas to make some! Although---- "80" isnt yet a good number for me, and I' ahead of you- I'm already 66! Happy 2021, Sharla! Glad I got to meet you some years ago!
ReplyDeleteyou're so fortunate to have Mom and a common interest. so happy for you 2.
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