Here is a quick tutorial on how to make an appliqué with your embroidery machine. It is a great skill to have. As you see here you can use your appliqué on anything; baby blankets, totes, towels and monogrammed gifts.
Materials you will need:
1- scrap piece of appliqué fabric
1- main fabric or your project
thread the color of the appliqué fabric
adhesive spray
interfacing
embroidery machine
hoop
embroidery appliqué design
embroidery scissors
Step 1: Place the interfacing into the hoop and spray the surface.
Step 2: Put the project or main fabric on the sprayed interfacing over the hoop.
Step 3: Put the hoop into place on your embroidery machine and allow the appliqué to trace the design over the main fabric.
It is showing you where to place the scrap fabric for your appliqué.
Step 4: Smooth out the scrap piece of fabric over the project fabric. The embroidery machine will trace the design again.
Step 5: Now for the fun part. Take a small, sharp pair of embroidery scissors and cut away the excess fabric from the design.
be careful and cut as close to the design stitches as possible without clipping the design
Step 6: Place the hoop back on the embroidery machine and allow the machine to finish the appliqué design. Most appliqué designs have a zig zag stitch first and then a satin stitch.
This can be a great skill to have. Any store bought blanket, towel or tote can be made into a special semi-handmade gift.
Happy Stitching!
6 comments:
Hi Sew Spoiled! Loved your step by step applique instructions.
And as you said being able to embroider an applique design onto your favorite fabric is certainly a great skill to have.
Thanks!
Now If I only had the machine to do that hahahah :)
Where do you get the tumblers?
Im also curious about the rest of the project :)
Really this is the very interesting post.
Hand Embroidery
Thank you! Maybe now I can actually give this a try...
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