My dad passed away in 2022. A couple of years later, I wanted to make a keepsake for my mum, and decided to create an embroidered piece in his handwriting. We couldn’t find a card or similar that he had written to my mum, so using handwriting samples that my brother and I found of notes he had written, I started by pulling out examples of the letters and words I might need and put them together so I could see the similarities and differences across various examples.
After discussing it with my brother, we decided to go with the wording “with all my love” as it felt more like what my dad would have written in a card to our mum, so I pieced this together from the letters and words I had found to create my template. We chose a frame that we would put the final piece in, which I drew the size of onto some fabric, and then traced the design into this space with fabric pens in order to embroider it onto the fabric.
The finished piece, which my mum loved:
