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Instructions for making the Romancing the Rose Basket 

 

 

 

  1. Black fabric
  2. Very thin wadding
  3. Timtex or similar product
  4. Very thin wadding


Hoop your backing fabric
 
In the enlarged photograph you can see where I have hopped the backing fabric as you can see in Photo No. 2. Over the top of the backing fabric is the thin wadding, Timtex, wadding and black fabric as seen in photograph No. 1
 
Stitch out the hoped stitch to anchor down all the layers of fabric, wadding etc.
 
  1. Stitch the basket out first
  2. Print a template of the Roses
  3. Mark the centre of the roses
  4. With your scissors cut out the printed roses as shown above in the photo
  5. Find where you would like to place the roses over the basket
 
Once you have found the right place. Mark the centre of the roses, use chalk to mark the spot
 
As you can see I have used that tacky sticky paper in the hoop
 
Place your black fabric, wadding etc. over the sticky paper and play around with the fabric until you have the fabric in the correct position in the hoop. Using your plastic hoop template as shown in the photograph above
 
Stitch out your hoop template
 
Before you start stitching the roses out, select your thread and have the threads in some sort of order and match your thread numbers with the colour's as there are a number of colour changes in this design and you may start getting very confused.


Stitching the rose design
 
After you have completed the stitching of the basket and roses, cut with your scissors close to the satin border but not to close, you can see what I mean in the photos No. 14 and 15


On the back of the roses and basket I used Glue stick as it is very easy to place the design onto the striped fabric which is the lining for the bag and to maintain the position
 
 


With your scissors cut the the lining as shown above
 
Cut with your scissors close to the satin border but not to close as you will be masking the fabric with your satin border
 
I satin stitched in the pale green border first (leaves) but what I did I would go about half an inch stitching the satin stitch and then press the reverse button back that half an inch then take my finger off the reverse button and go forward I did this all around the roses and basket. It give a beautiful finish. After I did the leaves I did the roses and then the basket


Close up of the satin stitch border
 
Another close up


Photo of the beginning of the base for the basket.
  1. Thin wadding
  2. Timtex
  3. thin wadding
 
Photo of the base for the basket
  1. Lining fabric
  2. Thin wadding
  3. Timtex
  4. Thin wadding
  5. Lining fabric
 
Edge of the basket base
 
All ready to start putting the basket together


Lining of the basket
 
I used a zigzag stitch on either side where I could to stitch the basket together
 
Zigzag stitch basket together


Still stitching the basket together
 
Still going :)
 
Stitching the base to the basket. I did have to do a small amount of hand stitching towards the end.
 
I went to the Hardware store and purchased from the Pool department clear tubing for the handle
 
Covered the clear tubing with the pink striped fabric which is the same as the lining striped fabric
 
I softened the plastic covered tubing with my steam iron, as you can see I covered the tubing with paper before steam ironing
 
Once softened I flattened the tubing with my fingers and then quickly stitched the tubing with a straight stitch
 
Stitched the tubing onto the basket. You do not see the stitching due to the basket weave.


All finished
 

 

 

Instructions for making the Romancing the Rose Cushion 

 

 

 

I used two layers of stitch and tear hopped
 
On top of the stitch and tear I put two thin layers of very thin batting or wadding depending on which country you are from
 
Stitch out the basket first
 
Print a template of the roses
Mark the centre with a pen as shown in the larger photograph


Put a pin through the centre mark you just made with your pen. Then with either chalk or a marking pen mark the centre on the fabric, as shown in enlarged photograph


Using your hoop guideline place the fabric on top of the hoop so you can get perfect placement of your fabric
 
Pin the fabric to your stabilizer that you had previously hopped
 
Place your hoop with the pined fabric carefully into your machine and then stitch out your hoop
 
Before you start stitching the roses out, line all the threads as there are a number of colour changes in this design