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Here we offer some project ideas on how to use the Crane
Set, the machine embroidery designs in the satin stitch technique.
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Our first project - a kimono style silk gown decorated with embroidery.
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| Use any water-soluble stabilizer and either rayon or polyester 40-weight
embroidery threads. |
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| The second project is a quilted wall hanging. The finished size of
it is 27" x 27" |
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| To make this quilt, we first drew waves on a 18"x 18" square
of light-weight cut-away stabilizer; cut 1" and 1 1/2" wide strips of six
blue fabrics, then machine-stitched the strips onto the picture one by
one. It's important to press the seams after every strip is attached |
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| When the piece with waves was ready, we pressed it, hooped and embroidered
the cranes one by one. |
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| Then we pressed the piece again and squared it to get a 16 1/2 x 161/2"
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| The borders are pieced out of 3 fabrics. The first strip is 1" wide
(cut 1 1/2"), the second strip is 1 1/4" wide (cut 1 3/4") and the last
strip is 3" wide (cut 3 1/2"). First we stitched all the strips together,
then sewed them to the embroidered part and made mittered corners. |
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| We quilted the wall hanging with invisible thread. The quilting line
goes around the embroidery and several times along each wave; the first
and the second border strips are quilted in the ditch, the third border
strip is quilted along the pattern of the fabric. |
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We hope that you like our ideas and will come up with many of your
own.
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