Thread: looking for alphabet cutouts

Originally Posted by pyffer3

I want to make an "our family" quilt using mom, dad, all our children's and grandchildren's name in a scrabble look quilt top. I have been searching the internet for 3 inch alphabet letters, either pre-cuts or stencils. Pre-cuts or embroidered letters are very expensive as I need 62 letters. I can't seem to find a free alphabet cut out. I could cut the letters out and sew them on each block and then put them in the order I have on paper. Does anyone have any quick references to something free for alphabet stencils? Or does anyone have a recommendation where I could get pre-cut fabric letters I could sew on?

go to your word processor and look at your various fonts. Any letter you can increase in size in any font can be used for a cutout pattern.

I use the font 'Century Gothic' on my computer and then choose 'outline' option and 'bold'. This gives me a clear outline to draw round. When I print the name, I use the 'Mirror' function on my printer, so the name is printed in reverse all ready to draw (without holding it up to the window, lol). The font size is usually 200+ depending on how big I want it and I usually have the paper orientation in 'Landscape'. Good luck!

This one is in upper case, but you could do lower, or a mixture.

Originally Posted by dollycaswell

Well, you are a wonderful "computer-enabled geekette"! I got all the way to "format options" looking for the outline option and can't find that in MS Word. It's the only program I know a little about. I'm hoping that's where the font "outline" change is located. Heaven help me if you say go to PowerPoint or somewhere else! Can you give me further directions please?

This is what my page looks like - the 'outline' is pictured in blue 'A', to the left of the A underlined in red. Hope this helps!

Oops - just noticed you already got help!