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Green Canvas Pillow with Iris Embroidery Designs:
This lovely green
pillow, decorated with iris embroidery designs and initial, has been created by
Bobbie Berry from Memphis. Bobbie, thank you! It looks great.
The pillow
was sewn of green canvas-type fabric, and decorated with matching green trim and
embroidery designs. The designs have been embroidered using ThreaDelight
polyester machine embroidery thread. The initial letter is from "Iris
Initials" embroidery font, and the corner is from "Iris
Blossoms" embroidery designs set. Here's a photo of the finished
pillow:
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Instructions for making this pillow:
Cut two pieces of decorator fabric (14" x 18" size).
Stitch your embroidery design(s). Cut a 3"x2" piece of fabric and fold both
sides towards the middle and stitch to lower middle of front piece.
Pin
decorative cord trim, right sides together, around the edge of the front piece,
beginning and ending in the middle of the small flange piece. Stitch cording and
clip edges. Fold flange down and stitch (On very heavy cording trim this will
prevent you from having an overlap that would be difficult or impossible to sew
over.)
Pin back to front, right sides together and stitch, leaving a 5"
opening in the bottom. Turn right side out, through the opening. Fill with
fiberfill and blind stitch opening. Finished!
Tips:
1. If you want to use more than one design
at once, like on this pillow, it may be possible to align and join them into a
single file using embroidery software. It's easier than aligning each design
separately using the paper template method. So if you manage to keep within your
largest hoop - go for it. Here you may learn joining designs in embroidery
software.
2. If your piece of fabric is problematic
for hooping (too small, too delicate, too slippery or too thick), you may hoop a
piece of backing (without the fabric), spray some temporary adhesive spray on
that backing and then stick the fabric to an appropriate spot and embroider. You
may find some embroidery backing and temporary adhesive
spray here.
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