Harvest Moon Instructions
Types of fabric I used
- Bag Obi silk fabric which is rather a heavy weight silk
- Cushion Japanese hemp fabric slightly open weave
- Document box and file folder Fine silk fabric
- Stool Cotton fabric
Design “Harvest Moon_01” This design was stitched on Japanese hemp which I purchased while in Japan, the fabric is very similar to a good quality linen fabric with a slightly open weave. I stitched at the base of the cushion lines of white thread using a straight stitch
I stitched “Harvest Moon_05” on an Obi fabric which is a very heavy silk fabric; I then used an Obi sash cord for the handle of the bag which I had purchased while in Japan
I stitched “Harvest Moon_01” Just using 2 colours on a cotton fabric which is another way of using the designs, I stitched this out to make a lovely little stool
The document box I stitched “Harvest Moon_02” on fine silk fabric, the folder I stitched “Harvest Moon_03” once again on fine silk fabric
the document box and folder I pressed the silk down and glued the designs and then hot glued a small rope around the design and where the rope met I put a little black bow and then glued a little glass bead in the centre of the bow
Place Mat “Harvest Moon_04” a thick cotton fabric
Dream Moon Fairies Instructions
Dream Moon Fairies Wall Hanging
- The design stitched was “Dream Moon Fairies_01”
- The work was stitched on purple cotton fabric
- 2 sheets of Medium weight stabilizer
- Wooden frame 19 cm or 7.5 inches in diameter
- I glued on the edge of the wooden embroidery frame a large pale pink rick rack, then glued down the rest of the rick rack to the side of the embroidery frame
- I used a Hot fixed wand to glue the glass jewels in between the zigzag
Dream Moon Fairies Cushion
The designs used on this cushion
- Dream Moon Fairies_05
- Dream Moon Fairies_06
- Dream Moon Fairies_04
The work was stitched on blue and white cotton gingham
You can do 3 hooping’s or if you have 360 x 150mm or 7 x 12 inches or larger hoop you can do all the embroidery in one hooping
The 3 embroidery designs together measure:
Height 287.3 x Width 149.9mm or Height 11.3 x Width 5.9 inches
I made a little pocket above the embroidery of the writing “Tooth Fairy”
Showing you the little pocket for the tooth on the cushion
Dream Moon Fairies Coat Hanger Cover
Fabric used to make the coat hanger cover was a man-made fabric, bought it years ago so have no idea what the fabric is
Designs used on the coat hanger cover
- Dream Moon Fairies_03
- Dream Moon Fairies_04
- Dream Moon Fairies_04 Mirrored
The 3 embroidery designs together measure:
- Height 300.1 x Width 149.1mm or Height 12.9 x Width 5.8 inches
Scene Stealing Instructions
Scene Stealing Cushion Instructions
Requirements
- Stabilizer Tear Away 2 meters or 2 yards
- Thin wadding 2 meters or 2 yards
- Egg shell coloured fabric 2 meters or 2 yards
- 2 meters or 2.3 yards of braid
- 2 meters or 2.3 yards of Satin cream piping
- Little pearls (I purchased from the $2.00 store a couple of necklaces with strings of pearls, I found it cheaper that way
Stitch out the following:
- 10 Pale Scene Stealing_002
- Pale Scene Stealing_003
- 1 Pale Scene Stealing_001
PLEASE NOTE
You can follow the step by step photos of the poof instructions
1. Hoop your fabric and thin wadding
2. Once you have hooped the fabric and wadding slide the “Tear Away” stabilizer under the hoop
3. Stitch out all the panels
4. Cut the background fabric 50cm square or 19.5 inches
5. Mark the centre
6. Place all of “Pale Scene Stealing_002” in a circle
7. Lightly hot glue each panel onto the pink fabric ( I use the hot glue very sparingly)
8. Lightly hot glue the centre panel “Pale Scene Stealing_001”
9. Stitch using a Zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border of each panel
10. Place all of “Pale Scene Stealing_003” at the top of “Pale Scene Stealing_002”
11. Lightly hot glue each panel onto the pink fabric ( I use the hot glue very sparingly)
12. Stitch using a Zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border of each panel
13. Over the satin stitch around each panel, I stitched a flower type stitch or you can choose another of the decorative stitches that you have in your machine, there are so many to choose from, this helps to blend all the designs together
14. Hand stitch the pearls on each of the panels
15. Hand stitch the braid
16. Sew the piping onto your cushion
17. Put a zipper into the back of the cushion
Instructions for the Scene Stealing Poof
Requirements
- Stabilizer Tear Away 2 meters or 2 yards
- Thin wadding 2 meters or 2 yards
- Pale pink fabric 4 meters or 4.5 yards (I always purchase more than I need, 4 meters or 4 yards should be fine)
- 2 packs of the following to fill the Poof. 100% cotton towel 52 in the pack purchased from Costco. I recommend you use whatever you find available. Another suggestion would be old clean rags etc.
- 2 meters or 2 yards of mauve braid
- 12 pink tassels
Stitch out the following
- 10 Scene Stealing_002
- 10 Scene Stealing_003
- 9 Scene Stealing_004
- 9 Scene Stealing_005
- 1 Scene Stealing_001
1. Hoop pink fabric and thin wadding
2. Once you have hooped the fabric and wadding slide the “Tear Away” stabilizer under the hoop
3. Stitch out all the panels
4. Cut a the pink fabric 60cm or 23.5 inches square
5. Mark the centre
6. Place all of “Scene Stealing_002” in a circle
7. Lightly hot glue each panel onto the pink fabric ( I use the hot glue very sparingly)
8. Lightly hot glue the centre panel “Scene Stealing_001”
9. Stitch using a Zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border of each panel
10. Place all of “Scene Stealing_003” at the top of “Scene Stealing_002”
11. Lightly hot glue each panel onto the pink fabric ( I use the hot glue very sparingly)
12. Stitch using a Zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border of each panel
13. WARNING these are my dimensions you can make the dimensions either larger or smaller and the dimensions can also very, due to the weight and type of fabric you have used for your background fabric
- I just cut up a number of used printed paper for the template and stuck them together with painters tape
14. Mark your circle using chalk or fabric pen
15. Then stitch 1cm or .4inch from your chalk line, this helps the fabric not to stretch when you will be doing the seam in the future
The above photo showing you the fabric pen and seam line
16. Cut as close as you can to the stitched area using your scissors
17. Cut out the bottom panel for your poof at this time
The above photo showing the circle all cut out
18. Over the satin stitch around each panel, stitch a feather stitch or another of the decorative stitches that you have in your machine, there are so many to choose from this helps to blend all the designs together
- I also satin stitched around the circle and then over the top of the satin stitch I stitched the feather stitch, this just gives a nice finish
19. For the side of the poof measure 164cm or 64 inches in length and 24cm or 10 inches width
20. Lightly hot glue a panel onto the pink background fabric ( I use the hot glue very sparingly)
21. Stitch using a Zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border of each panel
The above photo showing you gluing each panel down separately and then zigzag stitch over the satin stitch border
Over the satin stitch around each panel, stitch a feather stitch or the same decorative stitch that you had used on the top of the poof
23. Hand stitch the side panel to the top of the poof, this way you can manipulate the fabric so the two panels will match up perfectly, leaving where you matched up the panels, excess fabric as you will be hand stitching the two panels to interlock and you will need that extra fabric
Photo showing you the finished hand stitching for the side panel to the top of the poof
Machine stitch over your hand stitching but do not machine stitch towards the end of the panel as you need to hand stitch the two panels together, the following photo will show you
25. Hand stitch the two last panels so they can interlock, notice the excess fabric I recommend you use a coloured thread that you can easily see, so it will be easy to cut the threads after you have machined stitched the panel together
Zigzag stitch over the your hand stitching
27. Cut away the excess fabric
28. Photo above showing the panels interlocking
29. For the base of the poof cut the panel in half, having enough excess fabric for the zipper
30. Stitch the zipper into the base of the poof
31. Open up your zipper before doing the following. I sometimes forget this stage!
32. Stitch the base to the side panel
33. I added along the edge a mauve braid. Which I hand stitched on
34. I then added the pink glass tassels, I purchased these gorgeous tassels when I was in India, so pleased I could finally use them
Scene Stealing Pin Cushion
I do not have step by step instructions as I have never made one before. I saw this idea on Pinterest, thought I would give it a go
- Silk .5 meter or .5 yard
Steel wool ( I read that steel wool is very good for your pins as the steel wool sharpens the pin and needles)
- .5 me0ter or .5 yard of scrap fabric to make the bag to put the steel wool into
- Glue the bag of steel wool and silk fabric to the base of the cup
Scenic Europe Instructions
I added to the right hand side of the photo a little pair of porcelain clogs, my mother brought back from one of her trips to Europe and was given to me when I was very young and that is why I designed this set.
The following designs used in the above photo
- Scenic Europe_01
- Scenic Europe_02
- Scenic Europe_03
- Scenic Europe_04
What you will need
- 4 print outs in actual size showing connectors
- 1 meter or 1 yard of white cotton fabric
- 2 layers of medium weight stabilizer for each design as the buildings are rather dense in parts
- Artists Canvas board, you can purchase the canvas board from an art shop or a $2.00 shop
Print out all four designs in “Actual” size, each design showing connectors
Cut around the design as you can see in the photo
Line all four designs in a row, I use painters tape to hold the print out onto the fabric, so much better than using pins
Mark the centre point in each design in the row
If you look closely at this photo you can see how I marked all four centre points of each design onto the fabric
Centre your hoop with your markings
I stitched the row of 4 buildings on 2 layers of white cotton fabric, so when you place the design on a board or wish to frame the work, you cannot see any trace of your stabilizer
The photo above showing you the type of canvas board I used to for the wall hanging.
Machine Embroidery Designs
Latest Releases
Folklore Machine Embroidery Designs
Released on the 25th June 2019
6 designs included in the Folklore machine embroidery design set.
The Folklore design is suitable for a 6 x 10 inch or 240mm x 150mm hoop.
The Folklore design is available in DST, EMB, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, VIP, VP3 and XXX.
The colour chart is included in the design set
As I am now digitizing with Wilcom embroidery software (which is a commercial software) we are unable to convert files to ART format. Bernina embroidery machines will now need to purchase designs in EMB or EXP format. Sorry for the inconvenience.