I Am Woman - Machine Embroidery Design Instructions

Instructions for making the 4 small panels on a large panel

	I used the following for each of the panels 2 very fine panels of wadding Thick wool wadding Thai silk Silk organza
	I have no idea what you call this waxed type of paper with the sticky glue below the wax. I did purchase it from http://www.stirlingembroidery.com
	I hoop the wax paper
	Get a pin and go around as I have done in the following photographs
	Lift the wax paper away from you went around with the pin
	With your scissors cut away from the pin area as shown above
	After you have used the scissors
	Take the wax paper away from the sides
	This reveals sticky side around the hoop area
	Place your fabric over the sticky paper inside your hoop
	The silk is now ready for you to put onto your machine
	Place your stabilizers underneath the hoop
	Place the silk organza on top of the silk I use silk organza often and I keep many shades of the very fine silk organza in my stash TIP Why I like to have many different colour's of the silk organza is for the reason why I am using it to do this work. The bright pink Thai silk that I had selected for "I am Woman" was just to bright for the patterned Thai silk background so I used the silk organza which matched the patterned Thai silk beautifully. You might keep this in mind when next time you just cannot match up with another fabric
	Stitched out
	Cut away as much as you can all your stabilizer
	I purchased from the $2.00 shop the canvas
	Before laying the Thai silk on the canvas I sprayed glued the canvas and put thick wadding over the the canvas I framed the canvas with each of the designs using a staple gun
	Framed
	On the main canvas board I also spayed glue on the canvas and put thick wadding over the top of the canvas
	I used a staple gun to frame the Thai silk over the canvas
	To get an exact place to staple each of the four panels I used pins. I placed pins around each of the panels which goes through to the other side of the main canvas
	Showing you the back of the canvas with all the placement pins
	All four panels placed with pins. I then turned the main canvas over and then started madly stapling using the staple gun

Manchu Robes Machine Embroidery Designs - Instructions

Manchu Robes Tubular Cushion

Notions

• ½ a meter or ½ yard of fabric

• ½ meter or ½ yard of contrasting fabric

• 1 metre or 1 yard of felt for backing of fabric, this keeps the structure stable, you do not need to use the felt, but I felt as the fabric was cotton the fabric needed to be stabilized

• Zipper 36 cm or 14 inches in length

• 1 metre or 1 yard of contrasting coloured bias binding

• Two tassels
  
  

Stitch out the following designs

• Manchu Robe_04 this is the centre design, I suggest you stitch this design out first

• Manchu Robe_10 twice

• Manchu Robe_12 stitch 8 of the designs out

For a hoop size, 240 x 150 or larger you can sew out the following design

• Manchu Robe_11 then stitch out Manchu Robe_10 Mirror the design in your machine
  
  
  
  

• The fabric for the cushion, had two distinct sides, I was fortunate to be able to use each side of the fabric
  
  
• Before cutting and hooping the fabric for the middle panel make sure, there is enough length and width for making the cushion.

• For the middle panel where you will be stitching out the design, the fabric measurements 72 cm length or 28inches 20cm or 7.8 inches wide

Place and stitch the designs onto the fabric at one end as shown in the photo above

For either side of the middle panel, you want a contrasting fabric cut each panel 16.5 cm wide or 6.5 inches x 72 cm or 28.3 inches length

Stitch on either side of the middle panel the contrasting fabric

• For the zipper, cut fabric 5cm width or 1.5 inches x 50 cm or 19.6 inches length

• Cut another strip of fabric 10 cm or 4 inches width x 50 cm or 19.6 inches length

Fold each of fabric strip in half using an iron

Stitch the folded 5 cm width x 50 cm length to one side of the zipper

Stitch the other strip of fabric to the other side of the zipper

Pin and stitch the zipper to the top of the three panels

• Zipper stitched to the top of the three panels

• Cut out all eight Manchu Robe_12 panels

• Place the eight Manchu Robe_12 designs that had earlier stitched out evenly, four on one side of the middle panel and four on the other side of the middle panel.

• Lightly glue each panel down, using glue or a hot glue gun, sorry I forgot to take photos of this section the problem was, I was carried away zigzagging each of the eight panels down

Join the other section of the three panels, pin and sew that area to the other side of the zipper

The photo showing both sides stitched to the zipper and creating the loop

To get a little more impact for the cushion, sew a colour that stands out in the designs for the bias binding onto either side of the cushion

• Cut out a template the dimensions 22 cm or 8.6 inches circumference approximately, check your measurements as your cushion could be larger or smaller

• Cut out two cotton fabric

• Cut out two felt

Stitch the felt to the round panel as shown in the photograph

Pin and sew each round panel to both sides, please before pinning and stitching make sure the zipper is open

I purchased these earrings from a two dollar shop, the reason why I bought the two earrings as I thought they would make excellent tassels. Why I mentioned this as sometimes in those two dollar shops, the shops can have extremely appealing and practical items for your work

Stitch each of the tassels at each end of the round cushion

Showing you the finished cushion where the zipper was stitched

Misty Morning Machine Embroidery Designs - Instructions

I purchased a black bamboo woven table mat

Stitch Misty Morning 01, 02 and 03 on black fabric as a stabilizer I used two heavy cut away stabilizer and between the stabilzer and black fabric I put a very thin wadding, just to give the designs that softness, but do not use a thick wadding as it will look like you have cushioned the designs and would look silly on the bamboo woven matt. These designs are very dense

Once you have stitched all three designs, around the perimeter of each design, stitch a satin stitch but not to dense nor to long, just enough to stop the fabric from fraying

Cut the fabric away from the satin stitch you just stitched

Stitch another satin stitch over the top of what you just stitched but making this satin stitch a bit longer and more dense but not to dense

Cut any lose threads, as there is alway a number

This time use a nice satin stitch and length as this will be the finished stitch

Place the three designs as I have in the photo with pins, they must be in the same alignment

I super glued the designs down and waited a couple of hours. The super glue will not hurt the design as you have so much stabilizer and wadding between the super glue and design. I only used small dabs of super glue.

Applique the three designs down with a very tiny zig zag stitch. This gives a nice finished look. You must not have a to big nor to wide a zig zag stitch