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Step One: Open our "Sunflower" file and transfer
it to the memory card of your embroidery machine.
This and other similar designs you may find in our Bookmarks
section. |
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Step Two: Use a hoop of size 5.2" x 7.2" (13x18 cm). Cut a piece
of fabric of around 6" x 8" (15x20 cm). |
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Step Three: Cut out a rectangle of iron-on stabilizer of the
same size... |
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Step Four: ...and iron it onto the back of the fabric. |
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Step Five: Hoop the fabric and stabilizer. |
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Step Six: Select the required colors, using the description
in the color chart that came with the "Sunflowers". |
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Step Seven: Install the loop onto your embroidery machine and
embroider each color in turn, as shown on the photograph. |
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Step Eight: At every pause, carefully take the hoop off and
remove all jump stitches. |
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Step Nine: Before embroidering the final color - the frame -
stretch some material across the back of the embroidery. This can be cut-away
stabilizer, canvas or flannel: it depends on what you're going to use the
emroidery for. A glasscase requires silkier fabric, a bookmark -- something
stiffer. This hides the threads at the back of the embroidery. |
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Step Ten: Remove the finished embroidery from the machine, take
it out of the hoop and cut neatly along the edge of the motif. If this
is a bookmark, you are basically finished. You can add beads, ribbons and
tassels for decoration, if you wish. If you are making a glasscase, repeat
steps 2-10 and then continue with steps 11 and 12. |
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Step Eleven: Press the two embroideries together, back to back,
and sew them together on your machine with a compact zig-zag. Make sure
you sow the corners together first. Use the same color of thread as the
border. |
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Step Twelve: Your glasscase is ready! |
