Welcome to F-U-N Friday Part 2

Welcome to F-U-N Friday!

(Be sure to read the previous post so you know where to find the free file!)

I found a project on the internet recently for a ribbon/tag blanket  toy similar to this. 

          
I decided to make one for my little pumpkin using the Jack-o-lantern face from GG designs.

When I have only one design to cut, I usually cut it on the Silhouette Cameo.  I opened the EXP design in my Floriani Total Control U software and deleted everything but the placement stitch.  You can save your design in the SVG format and then open it in the Designer Edition of the Silhouette software.

However this week the newest Silhouette software update has been released and it will read the Exp embroider files.  So I opened the 5 x 7 small outline and it was super easy to cut out the appliqué shapes.
 

I cut a piece of black fabric approximately 5 " x 7", sprayed it with Best Press and ironed Heat and Bond Lite to the back of the fabric.  After it cooled, I removed the paper backing and cut it out with the following settings:

Fabric - Thin fabric

Blade depth of 5

Speed of 3 and pressure of 33.

 

Not all designs are this easy to work with.   So I opened up the 5 x 7" Exp design and pulled the design apart.  You can see the 3 sections in the screen shot below.  I deleted the Satin Stitching and the Tack Down stitching and then used the placement line only.

 

I would recommend watching this video from Terri Johnson to help you understand how to locate the placement stitch within the embroidery design. 

 Here is the link to her blog www.terrijohnsoncreates.com

                          

After I stitched the face onto my 10" square piece of fabric, I added the ribbon loops to the fabric. 

For the crinkle noise, I sandwiched a clean potato chip bag between the fabric and the terry cloth.

 

My finished design! 

 

 Here is my pumpkin face cutie-pie!

 Happy Halloween everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

F-U-N Friday

Halloween is my FAV-o-rite holiday, especially since I moved to Florida.  It is a sign that cooler weather is coming and I used to decorate my classroom BIG time. Now that I am retired I decorate my home and today's find is an easy project to create!

I was shopping yesterday at my local K-Mart and found this cute Boo pillow.  I thought this would be a quick and easy project using Photopaint ( yes, I am in a rut!)

If you read Tuesday's blog post here, I shared a link for a variety of Halloween fonts.  But I didn't see any of the fonts that I thought would work so I checked out www.dafont.com and found Jack Lantern BB font here.

I selected the largest hoop (Jumbo) with foot #93 and an orange Cotton 2 background.

Now I just have to paint it out  and it is done!  I hope I have time today to actually do that!

This is the cutest dingbat font ever for little kids 'stuff'!    Last year I made a store sample and this year my grand daughter can wear it!  It is called MTF Sweet Halloween Dings and you can find it here.

I typed in the letter "C" and this sweet little pumpkin face popped up.  Because the line is so thick, it has a double line.  So Select>Right click> Break apart.

AS you can see now, there are 7 layers created in this file.  So I created only one cutwork file using the background as the green stem and paint works for the face.

Here is my finished Pumpkin_APP.

Have a FFFW!  F-U-N First Fall Weekend!