| Decorate your kitchen shelf with an attractive valance decorated with
the Children
Masquerade Redwork Set I and Children
Masquerade Redwork Set II, and borders from the Lace
Border Set III. |
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| You will need light water-soluble stabilizer (film-like as opposed
to fabric-like), elastic tape 1/4" wide and plain white cotton fabric,
about 15" wide, its length depending on the size of your shelf. Our shelf
is 66" long and 8" wide; so the length of the valance fabric must be: 66"
+ 8" + 8" + about 20" for ruffles + 4" for hooping, which comes to 106". |
| Step One: First draw the outline of your valance on the fabric.
Our valance is 12" wide and 106" long. |
| Step Two: Hoop the fabric without stabilizer and embroider the
upper border of the valance. Re-hoop and embroider again until you have
embroidered the entire length of the valance. Use #40 thread. |
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| Step Three: Mark the places of the children figures, stabilize
the fabric with the light-weight film-like water soluble stabilizer and
embroider the figures one by one. Use #30 thread. |
| Step Four: Hoop the fabric without stabilizer again and embroider
the lower border of the valance. |
| Step Five: Rinse the stabilizer, air-dry the valance and press
it. |
| Step Six: Cut out the lace borders of the valance. Finish the
raw edges on both sides. Machine-stitch two rows of gathering threads along
the upper border, 1" and 1 1/4" from the upper border. |
| Step Seven: Pull the gathering threads to make ruffles and to
shorten it to the size of the shelf. |
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| Step Eight: Take a piece of elastic tape about double the length
of your shelf. Our shelf is 66" long, so we took 120" of elastic tape.
Connect the ends of the tape to make a loop. Attach one side of the elastic
loop to the valance with zig-zag, about 1" from the upper border of the
valance. |
| Step Eight: Stretch the elastic loop around the shelf. The project
is ready. You can also decorate the valance with free-standing fans from
our Fan
Lace Set |
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Here are some other designs that can be used to make an attractive and
original towel topper to furnish your kitchen.
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