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.
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.
Trim away excess background fabric at least ½” away from the inner ring of the embroidery hoop.
Trace the inside of the embroidery hoop onto felted wool and then cut along the drawn line.
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.
Add a line of glue dots to the outside edge of the back of the felted wool circle.
Glue the wool circle to the back of the embroidery inside of the inner ring of the embroidery hoop.
Add a ribbon tied to the screw at the top of the embroidery hoop.
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.
Select a straight stitch on the Brother Dreamweaver XE and then increase the stitch length using the “+” key.
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.
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?
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!
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
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