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Craft an elegant and natural look with freestanding fabric designs! This specially digitized embroidery is created to stitch out onto a piece of non-fraying felt, with the cut edge of the fabric adding soft and realistic flair. Stitching these designs is quick and simple -- we'll show you how!
Supplies
Project Needs & Notes:
- 1/2 yard of acrylic, polyester or wool felt (for petals)
- Embroidery thread
- Scissors
Designs featured in this tutorial include:
- M26598, Freestanding Fabric Monarch Butterfly (In-the-Hoop)
Designs Used
Freestanding fabric designs have been specially digitized to sew on only a hooped piece of felt, so there is no stabilizer used of any kind.
After the pieces are embroidered and cut out, only the embroidery and felt remains, allowing for the pieces to look pretty on both sides.
As the freestanding felt will be seen from both sides, wind a bobbin to match every thread color used in the design.
Hoop the piece of felt firmly. Make sure it is nice and tight with no wrinkles.
Attach the hoop to the machine and load file. Embroider the design.
The first thing to embroider will be the "cut line". This marks the area on the felt where the piece will be cut out later.
Follow the color change sheet and embroider the rest of the design, changing out the bobbins to match every thread color.
After the embroidery has finished, unhoop the felt. Then using a scissor, carefully cut along the inner edge of the "cut line".
Cutting right along the inner edge will remove the cut line from the edge of the felt piece, leaving a clean felt edge after the piece is cut out.
