How to finish your stitchery in an embroidery hoop or on paper by Christine Baker November 23, 2018 written by Christine Baker November 23, 2018 822 Yesterday on QUILTsocial I used the Dreamweaver XE to make some of our stitchery into Christmas tags. Today I’m experimenting with two more finishing techniques. The Dreamweaver XE Pick one of your embroideries and select a wooden embroidery hoop that is the correct size to frame it. Just lay the hoop on top of the embroidery to make sure that all of the embroidery can be seen and that there’s enough fabric around that can be wrapped around the inner hoop. Selecting hoop size Trim away excess background fabric at least ½” away from the inner ring of the embroidery hoop. Trim away excess background fabric. Trace the inside of the embroidery hoop onto felted wool and then cut along the drawn line. Trace onto felted wool. Place dots of glue along the outside edge of the back of the background fabric. Then place it on top of the inside ring of the embroidery hoop and wrap the fabric around the edge of the wood. Press with your fingers until the glue holds. Add the outside ring of the embroidery hoop placing the closure at the top of the embroidery and then tighten the screw. Dots of glue along outside edge Add a line of glue dots to the outside edge of the back of the felted wool circle. Glue dots on back of wool. Glue the wool circle to the back of the embroidery inside of the inner ring of the embroidery hoop. Glue onto back of embroidery Add a ribbon tied to the screw at the top of the embroidery hoop. Add ribbon bow Sewing to paper Trim the embroidery background and then use a light spraying of 505 Adhesive spray to adhere it to a rectangle of cardstock. Glue to cardstock Select a straight stitch on the Brother Dreamweaver XE and then increase the stitch length using the “+” key. Increase stitch length Start stitching with the Dreamweaver XE about ⅛” from the edge of the fabric and then drop the needle and pivot at the corner. You could also choose to use a zigzag stitch instead of a straight stitch. Just make sure that you use a long stitch length so you don’t perforate the paper too much. Pivot at the corner Now you can use either glue or double-sided tape to adhere the paper to the front of a blank greeting card. Isn’t that a sweet one-of-a-kind Christmas card? Adhere to greeting card Here are all of the free motion fusible applique projects that we made this week. I really love this technique and have lots of ideas of how I can use it to make other projects! Our finished projects Once again, it’s been a great week using the Dreamweaver XE. I hope you’ve enjoyed learning about free motion fusible applique and embroidery and that you’ve been inspired to try it yourself. I’ll see you next month! This is part 5 of 5 in this series. Go back to part 4: Couching adds the finishing touch to handmade gift tags [shareaholic app=”follow_buttons” id=”23735596″] Print this page or save as a PDF 0qs234brotherDreamweaver XEfree patternHoliday Gift Ideassewing machine reviews FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinRedditWhatsappTelegramEmail Christine Baker I have been designing and publishing quilt patterns for the last 16 years under the business name Fairfield Road Designs. My patterns range from fusible applique and piecing to felted wool applique and punchneedle. You can see all of patterns on my website www.fairfieldroaddesigns.com. previous post Couching adds the finishing touch to handmade gift tags next post Unboxing the NEW Husqvarna Viking Designer Brilliance 80 YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... The magic and math to making perfect bias... Quilting made easy with the dual feed foot... THE absolute easiest way to assemble a Double... Taking the fear out of piecing Double Wedding... The trick to curved piecing the Double Wedding... Fear not the Double Wedding Ring quilt, Brother... Accurate pinning makes all the difference with curved... Curved piecing made easy with the Dreamweaver XE First steps to piecing the Double Wedding Ring... Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.