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Greetings,

I realize this is the embroidery forum, but there doesn't seem to be a "redwork" forum.

Anyone here know how to turn a picture into an iron on transfer for redworking?

I'm looking to make a dinosaur quilt for my grandson using redwork/bluework/anycolormightwork dinosaurs, but all the patterns I've found so far are either for machine embroidery or not really what I'm looking for.

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

please help.

Redwork really just means the colour thread you use to stitch the picture - with and with this type of embroidery, you usually just stitch the outline and highlights of the inside. It's both a quilting and an embroidey technique (penny squares - redwork squares - were stitched and then made into quilts).

The term redwork comes from the red ink used to print the squares - and the ink was so thick that you had to use red thread so that the printing wasn't so obvious.

I like to use dressmakers carbon to transfer designs to fabric.

You may want to check out the article on it - which can be found here: "Transferring Embroidery Designs to Fabric" article

It's not actually necessary to turn it into an iron on transfer to get it onto the fabric.

Hope this helps.