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This tutorial describes how I made embroidered patches to memorialize my cat, Beatrice. My sweet kitty lived a long and adventure-filled 17 years, but recently passed away. You could use this technique to create an embroidered patch from any image, really. I’m going to walk you through the things that I did, but there’s a bunch of different tools you could use instead for each step to arrive at a similar result (like tracing directly from the computer screen like in my similar 2008 'ible).

For an excellent introduction to embroidery, try Jessy's free embroidery class.

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