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Front piece: down arrows indicate folded 6” and 4” cotton printed squares, 6 in total. Side arrows indicate solid and batik strips as in diagram.
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instructions
Preparation steps
It’s also important to measure the
intended body pillow, or create a size that
can be used for a multitude of pillow sizes
to include standard sizes.
1. Prewash and dry your fabrics if desired.
2. Creating your pattern using INSPIRA®
Tear N’ Wash stabilizer with graph is
always great if you need a pattern
guide. Adjust your pattern according
to the size of your body pillow.
3. The front and back of this pillow wrap are
different. The front is using an assortment
of cotton blocks exploring fabric dye
techniques. The back is one large batik
piece to co-ordinate with front.
Cutting
Pillow Wrap Front
16” x 16” from each 3 solid white cotton fat
quarters for machine embroidery
(4 – 6” x 6”) and (2 – 4” x 4”) from 2 printed
cotton fat quarters
3 – 16” x 16” INSPIRA® Aqua Magic pieces
3 – 16” x 16” INSPIRA® Clear N’ Melt pieces
Borders
4 – 2” x 11” cotton strips for sashing
2 – 2½” x 34” batik for outside border
2 – 2½” x 34” solid for inside border
Back Piece
Cut to the size of the pillow front when
complete.
Front Piece
Note: Technique blocks are cut to size after
the techniques have been completed.
Machine Embroidery
1. Layer the INSPIRA® Aqua Magic
stabilizer, and 16” x 16” Cotton on
top of that layer. Then add a layer
of INSPIRA® Clear N’ Melt on the top
of the cotton and hoop. Load the
desired embroidery design. In this
case it’s PFAFF® Holiday Line Art
Collection #477. You may choose to
pick a built in embroidery design.
2. Always look at your embroideries and
decide which suits the theme.
3. Thread the machine with white cotton
30wt thread and 60 wt bobbin thread.
The cotton thread will easily dye with
the cotton fabric.
4. Explore the placement of the
embroidery.
5. Placement of the embroidery onto the
white cotton fabric is a personal choice.
6. Embroider the snowflakes or trees or
design of choice on each block. There
will be 3 blocks.
7. This block measures 16” x 16” at
the start, but will be cut to 14” x 14”
after embroidery and dyeing. The
embroidered block was cut larger
originally to have more area to explore
the preferred dyed surface area.
Embroidery using Clear N Melt
Embroidery with Clear N Melt
Instruction photos this page by Cheryl Stranges
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