Decorative Stitches

 How to use and what to do with the decorative stitches on your sewing machine

These decorative stitches are in most of your sewing machines, I find many people do not use these beautiful stitches to their full advantage, what I like to do is overlap decorative stitches with different coloured thread, as you can see in the photos. Have fun and experiment!

Press the fabric using your iron

Lay the fabric in between the spaces of your decorative stitches and stitch down the fabric

Showing all the fabric stitched down

This photo showing you another way of using your decorative stitches in your machine

I stitched the rick rack down using a straight stitch and a similar colour thread first.
I then stitched a decorative stitch over the straight stitch in a white thread

Candy Love Instructions

• The bag measures 16 x 21 cm or 8.5 x 6.5 inches
• The design is “Candy Love_01_180x130
• Stitched on pink and white gingham cotton.

I stitched the following designs on the cupcake cushion

• Candy Love_04
• Candy Love_05
• Candy Love_06
• Candy Love_07

Stitched on white cotton fabric

I stitched the following design on the Candy Love cushion

• Candy Love_03_360x200

Stitched on a pale green linen

I stitched the following design on the Candy Love cushion

• Candy Love_02_240x150

Stitched on white cotton

Delicious Instructions

Delicious Board

Please read the instructions carefully before you start

What you will need:

• Canvas board 76cm x 38cm 30 x 15 inches approx.
• 1 meter or 1 yard of Fabric to cover the canvas
• Grey, yellow, aqua, white and mustard fabrics, you do not need a lot of these fabrics, I just used fabric scraps
• Glue

Purchase a canvas board of your choosing, I selected 76cm x 38cm 30 x 15 inches approx.

Lay the designs onto the canvas board, once you have the desired look that you like, take a photo

• Stitch out Delicious_17 if you do not have 240 x 150 on your background fabric at the top
  
  
• Stitch out Delicious_ 16 (this is for the hoop 180 x 130 or 5 x 7 inches)
  
  
• Stitch out above Delicious _18 (this is for the hoop 180 x 130 or 5 x 7 inches)
  
  
• Pin all the panels on the background fabric
  
  
• Lightly glue each of the panels down on the background fabric

Zigzag stitch each panel down on the background fabric

Once I had completed zigzag stitching all the panels down I felt the work needed a horizontal zigzag stitches on the background fabric, if I had thought about it, I would have done this once I had finished stitching out “Delicious_17” would have been a lot easier! 

• Glue the front of the canvas board with wadding
  
  
• Staple your work to the back of the canvas board