Released October 16, 2009
By Gina Roberson
I decided to try and make my little girls a sweatshirt jacket from one of the Designs By SiCK articles I had read the other day. So I started my project and discovered that I needed some miniature sized fall designs to finish it up. Being that my girls only wear a size 4T, their jackets are quite small, especially after cutting it down the center and only have the sides to work with. I looked all over my favorite embroidery design websites and had no luck in finding any kind of fall design that was under 5 inches or so. I even tried resizing several designs to see if it would work, but once you resize something down smaller it just doesn’t keep the quality it once had and doesn’t look as pretty.
Then I came upon a GREAT find. At the Designs By SiCK website they have designs called “Sucker Covers” in all different themes. I had never paid attention to these before because I have no interest in making an actual sucker cover. But I noticed that these little designs were miniature and they were so sweet and cute. So I used a candy corn out of the “Halloween Sucker Covers 2” at the Designs By SiCK website and then I just deleted the steps that made the circle around the design. Of course you could leave the circle if you wanted to. It was the perfect size! And it embroidered out so beautifully.
I had a friend ask me to please make her little baby a Christmas Dress for her 1st Christmas. I had been trying to find something suitable for a little 6 month old dress but couldn’t find a small enough design. I went back to the Designs By SiCK website and found a set called “Christmas Sucker Covers.” It had a design with a little candy cane on it, just the perfect little miniature size! So again I just deleted the circle steps that went with it and used the little candy cane to make the border for this little dress. I just finished up the dress and I think the mama will be very excited to see it.
So if you need a small design please be sure to check out all of the Sucker Cover designs put out by Designs By SiCK. They are all as cute as can be and they work so well. I had never given them much thought because I thought I could only use them to make a sucker cover, but they have many uses!
Editor’s note:
You can find all of the sucker covers on the Designs By SiCK website here:
Sucker Covers
Gina,
what a great idea… I am always looking for small designs for my grandchildrens stuff..
The little jacket and dress are just adorable.. Two lucky little girls will get these items..
Keep enjoying your sewing.. God bless.Judy
Comment by judy — October 16, 2009 @ 9:50 am
What a great idea. I would have never thought of that and in fact was looking for some miniture designs the other day and now I know where to look. Thnaks. The clothing you did looks great.
Comment by Missy — October 16, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
looks really cute. Thanks for the tip!
Comment by grandma shari — October 16, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
I would have never thought about checking out, let alone using the sucker cover designs. Thank you so much for this idea! I really liked the jacket you made!
Comment by Helen — October 16, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Love the suggestion. Many times I’ve looked for tiny designs to no avail.
Comment by Connie B - Jax Fl — October 16, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
They are darling sure to make your little girls smile. Nice work!
Comment by Anonymous — October 16, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
Your projects tuned out adorable! What a great idea to use the designs from the sucker cover sets.
Thanks bunches for sharing your article and project. Great job!
Comment by watermelon — October 16, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
I just put this article online last night and had a customer call today asking for tiny Christmas designs to use for soap. I immediately thought of this article and the customer was extremely happy!
Thanks, Gina!
Comment by rob — October 16, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
I’m so glad that it came in handy!! I just love all of the designs on your Website ~ Gina
Comment by Gina — October 16, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
I used the “Sucker Covers” last Xmas to make soaps for my friends at work and they love them. They were the perfect size for the project. I do love these ideas as well. Thank you for sharing.
Comment by Carole — October 16, 2009 @ 10:38 pm
Good for you glad your creative brain was working and that you were willing to share
Comment by Katherine McGarry — October 18, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Brilliant Idea and thanks so much as this is the solution for small designs on headbands I am making from 3 yrs to 11 yrs old!!!
Comment by Wanda/LA — October 18, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
These garments are Beautiful. I use these designs on FSL ornaments, then add a name, and everyone loves them. And I just got FSL sport ornaments, and can’t wait to use them.
Comment by Alice Doom Tiline,Ky. — November 1, 2009 @ 10:31 am