St. Patrick's Day Glass Coasters
What you need:
- Sewing machine with “Create Appliqué” function ( In this project was Epic 3 used)
- Felt fabrics orange and green color ( you can use also vinyl for the upper side)
- Green embroidery thread, bobbin thread
- Embroidery hoop 120x120, or bigger , if you want to embroider several coasters at the same time.
- Tear away stabilizer
Preparations
- Go to “Create Appliqué”
- select the circle shape
- select stitch #4 from the stitch menu for Create Appliqué
- adjust the size of the circle to approx 100 mm
- click ok
Now you have an empty appliqué circle that you will fill with different Clover designs. You can also easily create a clover yourself, of heart designs. Follow the steps below to doing so. - Go to built in embroideries, menu Hearts, and load #12 a heart embroidery (45x40)
Or a similar design in this size from mySewnet Library - Change the color of the heart to green, and move it to the upper area of the circle.
- Touch duplicate , and mirror the second heart lengthwise. Position it so the lowe pointy ends of the hearts barely meets.
- Go to layers, select both hearts and group them together. Duplicate the group, and rotate the second group 90 degrees.
At this point it is a good idea to center the design parts individually, the two pairs of hearts and the applique circle, thus youachieve a perfect positioning of the heart , in relation to the circle
Embroidering
- Hoop the stabilizer and lay over the upper fabric/vinyl
- Baste around the hoop
- Embroider the first appliqué block , then skip the next two color blocks and continue with the green hearts.
- After finishing the hearts. Wind green thread on the bobbin, and replace the white bobbin thread with that
- Slide the green felt fabric under the hoop, and go back to the appliqué color blocks. Embroider appliqué block 2 and 3.
- Take out the embroidery from the hoop and cut carefully around the coaster along the appliqué stitch
Tips: tear away the stabilizer from between the top and bottom fabric before you trim along the edge