TBT Thursday

Welcome to TBT Thursday!  This post is designed to 'bring back' a few of the lessons that I posted before I had my blog fiasco!

Since snowflakes seem to be the 'theme' this week, I found another excellent quick project on www.noodle-head.com  The snowflake is a felt cut out with a raw edge appliqué stitch.

In her tutorial, she attaches a Snowflake template jpg file of the snowflake for you to download.  This design did not trace very neatly so I went back to my colorful snowflakes and selected snowflake 4.

After tracing the design you will have to trim out the center before you delete the white background or it will fill in it as solid.

Create a cutwork and appliqué snowflake following the video from yesterday's lesson here.

Here is the example of the Cutwork snowflake 4.  Remember to select your largest hoop with foot #44C.

I then created a 'raw edge appliqué file' by first duplicating the cutwork design and then I changed it to a different color and selected a running stitch. That stitch out is going to be your placement stitch.  Be sure to change your hoop to #26.

I then added a second running stitch and changed the color and set the offset to the inside of -1.0.

Move the placement stitch tile to the first position (drag the frame to the bottom) so you can place your snowflake cut-out in the correct position.

Now I have never cut out felt with my cutwork tool so I haven't any suggestions. Perhaps someone who has can comment below.   This idea right now is in theory only, anyone want to give it a try?

Welcome to Rewind Wednesday!

Welcome to Rewind Wednesday!  Is anyone else feeling the time crunch of the approaching holidays?  I sure do!

For today's lesson I created a quick video in which I feature how to make a cutwork, appliqué and Silhouette Studio file using Snowflake 5.  It is from the Colorful Snowflakes collection featured in yesterday's post.

I am sharing the Snowflake 5 jpg file here.  If you haven't signed up for the daily emails from www.dailyarthub.com, make sure you stop by often to check out their free daily design!

  

                

A few added notes from the video!

*For your fabric selection, choose Cotton 2 - mine is set for linen.

*Choose your hoop size and #44C when you are creating the Cutwork file.

*Choose your hoop size and #26 when you are creating your Appliqué file.



Here is a link for a quick holiday wine bag I found on Embroidery Library.  This is perfect pattern for an assortment of snowflakes!

I hope you are inspired to give this a try!  If you have any questions, post them in the comments and I will do my best to answer them!