Introducing the Pin Cut Sew Print Shop! || Printable Sewing Wall Art for Sewing Room Decor
I am so excited to reveal another new project here today that I have been working very hard on over the past month or so! When searching for wall art for my sewing room over the last year or so, the same few prints come up in searches most of the time. There doesn’t seem to be much new sewing themed wall art coming out on the regular so I felt inspired to create some myself and add it to the Pin Cut Sew Etsy Shop!
I have FOUR pieces of original, printable sewing artwork to reveal to you today and all four are available for purchase in my shop. When you purchase this art, you are buying a digital file, which includes several sizes of each piece for you to either print at home, or have printed by a print shop. The file includes both PDF and Jpeg version of every size. But more on that in a minute …
I just really want to show you what we’ve created first!
Vintage Sewing Machine Printable Wall Art
The first set of prints is a collaboration with my 16-year-old daughter, Natalie. She creates digital artwork using photographs on her iPad and gifts them to her friends and it’s very cool. So when I styled a photoshoot with my vintage Brother sewing machine, I had a shining moment of inspiration and asked her to create digital artwork using my photograph.
Here is the result!
This vintage Brother sewing machine was my mom’s. She received it for her 14th birthday in 1971, but her mom wouldn’t buy her any fabrics or supplies. I think that generation saw sewing as more of a utilitarian skill than a hobby. So when Mom turned 15 and got a job she started buying fabrics and her mother was just amazed when she sewed up some t-shirts with actual knit fabrics!
Later, Mom moved out on her own and determined to stop hanging out with the rough crowd she’d been involved with. She set up her sewing machine on a typewriter stand in her apartment and used her evenings to sew rather than going out. She married my dad at age 23 and Dad always made sure Mom had a place to sew, no matter where they lived, and he happily upgraded her sewing machine. I remember him making sure she had time to sew as well. Sewing is therapy, after all!
I learned to sew on this vintage Brother machine and have lugged this heirloom around the country with me as we’ve moved so many times. I’m not much of a keeper-of-things, but I can’t part with this.
Here is the original photo I took recently.
So, that’s piece #1, which can click here to buy.
I loved the finished artwork so much that I dug up a photo I took a couple years ago of my vintage Pfaff machine and asked Natalie to work her magic on it too.
This machine is from the mid 1960s and I bought it secondhand about 9 years ago. It’s a total workhorse, I still use it often and it’s never needed serviced since I’ve owned it! It’s so special to me.
Here is the resulting artwork!
Here is my original photo. You’ll notice we removed the trademarked names from both prints. Gotta respect those laws. And C-3PO had to go too, obviously, but I’m still just in love with how these prints turned out and am so excited for them to decorate my own sewing space and hopefully some of yours’ too!
A few more details:
Each piece of artwork, when you purchase it from Etsy, includes files in the following sizes:
4 x 6
5 x 7
8 x 10
8.5 x 11 (U.S. letter size)
11 x 14
16 x 20
The files include both PDF and JPEG versions, both in high quality 300 dpi. When printing with your home printer, use the PDF versions. Print shops typically prefer JPG files, which is why I included both. If you need a custom size, I’m happy to help! Just shoot me a message over on Etsy.
I had a 16 x 20 version printed of the yellow machine and it turned out beautifully! I used mpix for all my prints as I prepared these listings and had a great experience with them. I highly recommend the giclee prints, on the deep matte paper. I ordered a few different papers and they were all nice, but that was my favorite, it’s beautiful and the colors are so pretty on the matte finish. The prices are great, (there’s a coupon code of some kind!), the shipping times were very fast and the prints were packaged in a way that ensured their safe arrival!
If you do print these first two prints at home, be sure and set your printer to print at 100% scale. Also keep in mind that the artwork includes a white border, so if you’re printing at home any size other than the U.S. letter size, measure carefully before trimming to size.
SEW and SERGE printable sewing art:
Ok, next!!
I can’t decide which set of artwork I like most because I really love how these turned out too! This was one of those ideas that turned out exactly as I wanted it to. I had the idea to use shapes to create a sewing machine, layering colored blocks on top of each other at varying transparencies.
Here’s how my “SEW” block art turned out.
Next, I wanted to make a partner print, so I took a reference photo of my serger and created another piece in the same colors and style.
So, the final piece of art (for now!) is this SERGE block art print:
I looooove this piece!
I’ve printed several versions of all of this artwork in several sizes from smallest to largest, both professionally and on my home printer and it’s all printed out beautifully.
If you’re wondering if there’s other things you can do with printable art other than just hanging it on the wall, here are several ideas for using these arts prints:
What to do with printable artwork:
Frame it (obviously). The large sizes look very cool framed up or on canvas!
Print out the smaller sizes onto heavy card stock and send as postcards.
Stick in a clear magnet frame for the fridge.
Print the 4 x 6 size, two to a page and make greeting cards (you may need to play with the placement and orientation.)
Print as a gift for a friend (I usually gift prints in an 8 x 10 size.)
Print letter size and slip into a the front of a binder.
Print the smallest size onto sticker paper, nine to a sheet. Cut out and you have stickers! Use this vinyl sticker paper, it’s the good stuff that’s waterproof and can be used on water bottles, etc …
Hang the medium sizes on the wall with washi tape for a no-holes decor idea.
Use as phone or desktop wallpaper (I did this!)
Okay, what are you waiting for?! Hop over to my Etsy shop and start printing!
While you’re there, visit the pattern shop. I’ve probably added a few since you last visited :)
Cheers!
Nikki
