| These greeting cards are very easy to put together and a pleasure to
receive. In this tutorial we show how to make greeting cards using cutwork
designs from our catalog. |
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| We used the Rose
Lace, Cross
Lace and Lady
Spring Lace designs. |
| Step One: The pieces of either linen or cotton fabric for embroidery
should be about 8" x 9" in order to be hooped. You'll trim the excess fabric
later. Embroider the design in the center of the fabric. Cut away
the fabric within the design. Press the embroidery. |
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| Step Two: Now make a sandwich - place a layer of tulle (it will
serve as backing in this case), cover it with a piece of low-loft polyester
batting (we used very thin PolyDream), cover with a piece of cotton in
a bright but matching color, and place your embroidered top over it. |
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| Step Three: Quilt your cards. You do not need to pin the layers
because the cards are so small that you can easily handle them. We chose
variegated rayon threads for quilting our cards. Press with steam. Trim
and square your quilts. |
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| Step Four: Out of heavy-weight paper cut rectangles measuring
double the size of your quilted tops. Fold them in half. Using a
glue stick, glue the quilts onto one part of the paper cards. |
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| Step Five: To finish the raw edges, we used a ready single fold
bias tape. Machine-stitch the tape to the paper backing, so that it folds
onto the face of your card. Then fold the bias tape onto the face of the
quilt and hand-stitch in place. |
| Step Six: To cover the raw edge near the fold, glue a satin
ribbon over it, both on the outside and on the inside of the card. |
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The cards are ready. Enjoy!
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