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Country Chic Door Hanger

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

What you need to make the door hanger

To stabilize the fabric I used the following

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch out Country Chic_08 I used a pretty Liberty cotton fabric for the roof

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch out Country Chic_03 I used a fine cotton with a faded dark pink stripe fabric

 

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Stitch in a straight stitch around the house and roof panel, this will mark the seam for you to cut out

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Lay under the roof and house panel the fabric you would like for the backing.

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Cut around the house, roof panel and backing fabric where you had straight stitched

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch the roof and house together then iron the seams flat

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch the house to the back leaving the base for stuffing

Fill the house with stuffing

Stitch the base, I just hand stitched

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

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Straight stitch around the heart for you to follow the seam

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Using the same fabric for the front and back cut out the heart following your stitches for the seam

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch the hearts together leaving enough room for you to stuff the hearts

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Make a bow and stitch the bow to the base of the house

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

I stitched on these large pearl beads, these are old pearl beads from a necklace my Mother-in-Law once owned, you can use whatever you have around the house or try searching dollar shops or Vinnies or one of those places near you

Using the same ribbon as the bow at the base of the house and hand stitch the hearts on the ribbon

Stitch the ribbon that has the hearts to the base of the house

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch a loop using the same ribbon and a bead onto the top of the roof

 

 

 

 

Country Chic Bag Holder

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

What you need to make the plastic bag holder

To stabilize the fabric I used the following

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch out either Country Chic_01 or Country Chic_09 depending on the size of the hoop you have

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Cut as close as you can to the satin stitch border, once you have cut all around the satin stitching with your scissors leave enough of the fabric where the straight stitches are so at a later time you can stitch a satin stitch.

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Cut the striped fabric 65cm or 14 inches wide by 65cm or 14 inches long

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

hem both the top and bottom of the striped fabric

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Fold the fabric in half-length ways, to the right of your fold find the centre and Stitch Country Chic_05 on the striped fabric

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Cut elastic 36 cm or 14 inches long and 1 cm or 1 inch wide, I really do not think that it would matter how wide the elastic is

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Using a zigzag stitch sew your elastic close to the bottom of the fabric

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch the side of the striped fabric and then iron the seams

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

At the top on both sides of the striped fabric find the centre

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

You can either pleat the striped fabric or gather which ever you prefer to be the same size as the green panel

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Stitch the gathers or pleats down

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Front panel

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

Back panel

 

Insert into the green panel the striped fabric and zigzag stitch the striped fabric to the green panel

 

Country Chic Machine Embroidery Designs

 

 

Cut away the excess fabric from the zigzag stitches, satin stitch over the zigzag stitches, I satin stitched a couple of times


I had a velvet ribbon similar colour to the flowers and made a bow and hand stitched the bow in the centre, I feel this just gives the work a lovely finished look