Embellishments

First of all, go read yesterday’s post! Evidently when you copy and paste a download email, it carries over the download link! There is a freebie design on there ~ but it may expire after 7 days! 🙂

I’ve monogrammed a few of these “tabs” lately so I thought I’d take a picture. I use STICKY STABILIZER to do these and as you can obviously see I pin the tab in place (after I’ve marked my center starting point on the tab which you can’t see). I’m using FAST FRAMES for my 6 needle machine, but the same concept applies for any machine ~ hoop a piece of sticky stabilizer and pin the tab in place. This would also apply to RIBBON and anything you can’t hoop! I guess you COULD hoop ribbon, but this method is much easier. Once you’re done just peel the sticky away. 

On this pic you can barely see the center point ~ that’s where you line up your needle to begin sewing.

Now on to a great tip emailed to me by a reader, Jessica Tims. I’m going to quote below what she told me!

“After avoiding a major crisis this morning my sister suggested I write a blog post about how to get Heat n Bond out of fabric, but since I don’t have a blog I thought maybe it would be something you would be interested in sharing.  I accidently hit a piece of HBL  (Heat N Bond Lite) when iroing a hem for a layette gown and didn’t want my 1/2 yd piece of fabric to be ruined (especially since I already monogrammed to match the fabric).  I had my iron on medium and ironed a piece of freezer paper (see below photo ~ Reynolds) to the spot where I had goofed.  Shiny side down against ironing board, paper side touching HBL, and iron on the reverse of fabric.  When you pull the freezer paper away you can see the adhesive attaching to the paper side.  I repeated a few more times and the fabric was clean!  I even tested it to see if the adhesive was really gone by ironing the fabric to another piece of fabric and it didn’t stick.  Did that made any sense?  It was like getting wax out of something using a paper towel but freezer paper instead.  It just saved me a lot of time and frustration, not to mention a trip to the fabric store.  :)”

I had to ask what freezer paper was, but now that I know I might need to pick up a roll! Evidently it’s used in the sewing world a lot to reinforce fabric!? Check it out! Thank you Jessica for the tip!

Here are some bibs and burp cloths I’ve done this week. The bibs are from Embroider This as well as the burp cloths. The ladybug is an Applique Cafe design. Anyway…. I’m loving the ric rac ribbon trim ~ I’m not 100% sure what it’s truly called, but I have it in a few colors and it’s super easy to sew on the end of the burp cloth (easier than ribbon or fabric to me!).

These are the colors I have, and I picked this stuff up a year or two ago while shopping in a fabric store in Auburn or somewhere random. It’s usually sold by the yard.

I also did this onesie this week, and I used a small crochet applique from www.quiltware.com. This is actually on a mini petal patch, so I merged the petal patch w/ the name (in Sew What Pro) and sewed all of that with my embroidery machine at one time. I then sewed the duck on by hand. I don’t think we offer the mini petal patch, but we might consider it!

The crochet appliques really are sweet on little layette gowns or onesies! Some are also big, so they are cute on t-shirts ~ on a patch or alone.

I used these a lot when I first got started, and I still have these! They make TONS of them at Quiltware. Something different to consider! I do sew them on by hand with a needle and thread! Some ideas ~ the cow with “moo” underneath in a small simple font. Pig ~ oink. Etc…

Have a great week-before-Thanksgiving!