Easter Applique Finished
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery on Mar 20th, 2012
I finished the easter t-shirts. Both designs are from here. Miss P’s is crooked, but there was no way I was unpicking it and trying again!
Category Archive for 'Applique'
Back to the Drawing Board
Posted in Applique, Digitizing, Foundation Blocks, Machine Embroidery on Mar 16th, 2012
This egg turned out to be very squat. I’ve gone back to basics: drawn my design on a piece of graph paper (the right size) and then digitised it. This new design is slightly too big for one hooping – hopefully this will mean the pieces won’t be so fiddly. Both girls have decided they [...]
I finished the cushion for Miss P. I was a bit disappointed with how the frill on the edges turned out. I should have sewn the zig zag bits from the front and used the seam joining the frill strips as a guide. Also, the pattern has two different dimensions for the back (one for [...]
Dino Cushion
Posted in Applique, Sewing Machine on Feb 6th, 2012
I’ve finished the front of the dino cushion. The applifix worked really well and I will use it instead of vliesofix in the future. For this applique I used normal machine cotton (last time I used embroidery thread), a blanket stitch (on my machine Mode 2, 35) and a width and length of 1.5mm.
My applifix finally arrived from here, so I’m back onto the dinosaur cushion. Miss P picked the fabric – the ladybird fabric is for the body and the other one for the spiky bits. It is very humid today and the idea of using an iron is extremely unappealing so I don’t think there will [...]
Another Christmas Card
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery on Nov 29th, 2011
This is my final card. The design is from here. Just adding the design rather than trying to cover the front with fabric seemed to work better – not as crinkly.
More Machine Embroidered Cards
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery on Nov 4th, 2011
So I am continuing in my efforts to get these cards right. Yesterday (when I should have been doing something else) I came across a tutorial on Urban Threads for making a card using machine applique, but they don’t stitch out the satin stitched edges – genius! The satin stitching is always do dense the [...]
Machine Embroidered Cards
Posted in Applique, Machine Embroidery on Nov 3rd, 2011
I’m still refining these cards. The first thing I’m trying to do is work out the best way of attaching them to the card stock. The embroidery tends to pucker the background fabric a bit and then I get crinkles when I sew the fabric to the card. I could stabilise more, but I don’t [...]
Christmas Card – Tree Applique
Posted in Applique, Childrens Craft, Machine Embroidery on Nov 2nd, 2011
Another Christmas card. The design is from here.
Applique Cushion Finished
Posted in Applique, Quilting, Sewing Machine on Aug 25th, 2011
I’ve finished the cushion for Miss A. A few things I discovered; vliesofix is fabulous, but there must be a cheaper way of buying it, a finer blanket stitch was best (Mode 2 36 on my Janome 6600p), as the envelope style backing is quite generous a button is not required. Here is a closer look [...]