These ears are being custom made to order to be purchased as a gift for an elementary school teacher. They feature hand embroidery that looks like chalk writing the name and a felt piece of chalk placed as if it just finished writing. The look is classic and simple but the process to achieve it is a labor of love.
Over an hour of planing stitching is involved in preparing the area that will be stitched with white thread to give the realistic texture of chalk on a black board. layout lines are stitched in yellow to set up the area that will have the writing, then actual chalk is used to write the name in the prepared space.
This is then outlined in orange thread as a guide. By the time all the edges are defined with orange most of the chalk has been worn off.
The yellow thread is removed and the hat is finally ready for the white thread to start creating the uneven texture of chalk.
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