2413 Terrific Free Motion Trapunto - Husqvarna Viking

2413 Terrifi c Free
Motion Trapunto
with Carol Ingram
Carol Ingram, Designer, author and teacher from
Sulky of America joined Sue with free motion
quilting ideas. She showed a black and white quilt
with 520 half square triangles called Girlfriend
Half Square Triumph. The Inspira Fashion Hat
Embroidery Designs were stitched on the block.
Carol had several girlfriends help her piece the top,
hence the name, Girlfriend Half Square Triumph.
She used an angular stippling to match the art deco
look. She tried both a black and white thread as
well as a red/black combination to decide on what
she liked.
She brought a Trapunto Rose Wall Hanging which
uses the Trapunto Technique found in Dimensional
Concepts with Sulky.for the America Sews viewers.
Trapunto Technique featured in Dimensional
Concepts with Sulky
Create this beautiful Trapunto Double Rose Wall
Hanging with an easy Trapunto technique developed
by Quilt Artist Harri Walner. Your Husqvarna
Viking Fab-U-Motion with Stitch Regulator makes
it easy!
Carol Ingram and Sue Hausmann

Finished size approximately 23” x 23”
Sewing Supplies:
•Pattern for Double Rose Design
•16 1/2” x 16 1/2” square of white or off white
cotton fabric for trapunto center
•14” x 14” piece of high loft polyester batting for
trapunto technique
•16” x 16” piece of Sulky Soft and Sheer Stabilizer
•23” x 23” square of Warm and Natural cotton
batting
•1/4 yd. bright solid color for framing strip
(optional)
•1/4 yd. print for borders
•25” x 25” square of print fabric for backing
•Topstitch Needle size 90
•Wash-A-Way water soluble basting thread #644320
•Clear invisible thread
•Cotton or Rayon thread for free motion sewing
•Sewing thread for construction
•Husqvarna Viking Clear 1/4” Piecing Foot with
Guide #412927445
•Husqvarna Viking Left Edge Topstitch Foot
#412 78 42-45
•1/4” wide Steam-A-Seam 2 #140000195
•Quick Easy Mitred Binding Tool #140002480
1/4” seam allowances throughout
1. Tape the two parts of the Double Rose
pattern together.
2. Place white or off white square on a light
box or a window over the Double Rose
pattern and trace the design onto the fabric
with a fabric marking pen.
3. Thread your Husqvarna Viking with sewing
thread top and bobbin and set for sewing,
straight stitch, stitch length 2.5.
Optional Framing Strip:
1. Carol framed the
center square with
a bright colored
narrow strip to make
it “pop”. Rotary cut
two strips 1” wide
across the 45” width of the fabric. Fold the
strip wrong sides together and press.
2. Snap on your 1/4” Piecing Foot with Guide
and place the edges of the strip with the raw
edge of the white square. Place all raw edges
against the guide on the foot and straight
stitch the narrow strip to all edges of the
trapunto square. It’s easy to start by stitching
the strip to the top edge, then the bottom
edge, then both side edges.
Borders:
1. Rotary cut two strips 3 3/4” wide across
the 45” width of the fabric. Snap on the
¼” Piecing Foot with Guide and place the
strips right sides together with the edges of
the trapunto square. Straight stitch borders
around the trapunto square with raw edges
against the guide in the foot. It’s easy to start
by stitching the borders to the top edge, then
the bottom edge, then both side edges. Now
your wall hanging top is fi nished. Except for
the quilting.
Quilt:
1. Set up your Husqvarna Viking with the
Fabric Mover with Stitch Regulator.
Consult the instructions and/or the DVD
that came with your Husqvarna Viking
Fabric Mover with Stitch Regulator for more
information about set up. Set stitch length
dial on the Stitch Regulator “brain” in the
center—about 2.5 stitches per inch.
2. Put in a 90 topstitch needle and thread with
Wash-A-Way thread on top and invisible
or bobbin thread in the bobbin. Set your
Husqvarna Viking machine for free motion
sewing, straight stitch.
3. Place the high loft batting behind the traced
design and put stabilizer underneath.
4. Place the fabric sandwich onto the Fabric
Mover surface. Be sure to lower the presser
foot if it does not lower automatically on
your Husqvarna Viking model to engage the
top thread tension. Select needle stop down
and place the needle down on the marked
line of the outside of the rose design.
5. Place your foot on the “foot switch” and

hold the switch down. Take 3-4 stitches in
place then begin moving the Fabric Mover
surface guiding the surface so you stitch
all the way around the outside of the rose
design. Do not stitch other lines of the
design yet.
Remember—you do not need to control the
speed of the sewing; your Stitch Regulator
does all the work for you. And you do not
push the fabric as you sew, instead, simply
move the Fabric Mover surface. There will
be no stitching except in place until you
move the Fabric Mover surface. When
you reach the edge of the Fabric Mover
opening, stop with the needle down, lift the
fabric sandwich and move the Fabric Mover
surface to the next area to be stitched.
7. Remove the fabric from the Fabric Mover.
Trim away the stabilizer and trim up to the
stitching to trim away the high loft batting
outside the rose design. Now the center
rose design of your wall hanging will be
very puffy for “easy trapunto”. This original
stitching can be removed when the project is
fi nished by spraying it with water.
Batting and Backing:
1. Re-thread with cotton sewing thread top
and bobbin. Place the cotton batting square
under the wall hanging top and stitch around
the outside with a 3-step zigzag to stitch the
edges together.
2. The backing is cut 1” larger than the batting
and top all the way around so that the edges
can be folded to the front to create the ½”
binding. Place the backing wrong side up and
center the wall hanging top/batting on top
and baste the layers with temporary spray
adhesive or safety pins.
Quilting:
1. Thread with cotton or rayon thread top
and bobbin. Place the wall hanging onto
the Fabric Mover surface. Step on the “foot
switch” and move the Fabric Mover surface.
Begin by stitching free motion around the
outside of the rose design stitching over your
Wash-A-Way thread stitching then stitch
over all the marked lines in the rose design to
create the trapunto detail of the roses.
2. Once the roses are quilted, move to the area
around the roses and stipple stitch open
swirling stitch designs up to the borders. If
you stitched the optional framing stitch, do
not catch this in the stippling. Continue
stippling the borders
Binding:
1. Fold the raw edge of the backing toward
the wall hanging top ½”. The raw edge of
the backing should be against the edge of
the top. For perfect mitred corners use the
Mitred binding tool. Fold the backing over
the edge of the top and pin or fuse in place
with Steam a Seam fusible web strips.
2. Snap on the Left Edge Topstitch foot And
select a blanket stitch or buttonhole stitch
and stitch the binding in place with the right
side up. Enjoy!!
Thanks to the underwriter:
www.sulky.com

2413 Quick Project
Embroidered Towel Wrap
with Alix Graham-Michel
1. Alix Graham-Michel joined Sue and Carol
with a fun quick project, a terry wrap. The
featured the delightful Loralie Designs.
Alix, of course, chose the “Sewphisticates”
embroidery designs. She also had fabrics
from the “On the Mend” collection for
women recovering from cancer.
2. Start with a towel or yardage that goes
around you plus a 10” overlap. Find a
coordinating fabric for the pocket.
3. Extra fabric will be needed for ruffl e and top
binding.
4. Cut ruffl e strips 2 to 3 times the length of
the wrap bottom edge and one side which is
actually one side and bottom of the towel.
Seam the strips end to end. Thread your
Huskylock Serger with Sulky 30 wt. on both
loopers and sewing thread in the needle. Set
for Rolled Edge according to your Sewing
Advisor ®. Stitch a rolled edge along one
long edge of the ruffl e strips.
5. Snap on your Gathering Foot. Adjust the
stitch length to 6.0. Stitch along the un-
Sue Hausmann, Carol Ingram
and Alix Graham-Michel
Sewing Supplies:
•Husqvarna Viking Sewing/Embroidery Machine
•Husqvarna Viking Huskylock Serger
•Loralie Designs “Sewphisticates” Multiformat CD
•Loralie Designs “On the Mend” Multiformat CD
•Sulky 40 wt. Rayon Embroidery Thread
•Loralie “On The Mend” Fabric
•Bobbin Thread
•Sulky Solvy Water Soluble Stabilizer
•Husqvarna Viking Left Edge Topstitch Foot
#412 78 42-45
•Husqvarna Viking Clear Stitch In the Ditch Foot
#412 92 74-46
•Husqvarna Viking Gathering Foot #412 79 71-45
•Purchased Towel
•9” Zipper
•Fasturn Tube Turner #140000001

hemmed edge of the ruffl e strips to gather.
Set aside the ruffl ed strips.
6. Embroider the design of your choice on the
pocket fabric or cut a pocket from Loralie’s
“On the Mend” fabric. Cut the pocket 9” x
11” or desired size.
7. Place a zipper face down along the top of
the pocket and straight stitch the zipper tape
to the pocket edge.
8. On the top of the zipper, create a binding
the length of the pocket and add a ruffl e.
To create the binding, cut a strip 3” wide
and as long as the top edge of the pocket.
Press the strip wrong sides together. place
a ruffl ed strip right sides together with the
binding, matching the raw edtes and serge
the ruffl e to the binding. Then place the
“bound” ruffl e over the zipper edge. Fuse in
place with Steam-A-Seam 2. Snap on your
Clear Stitch in the Ditch foot and stitch the
binding to the top of the zipper stitching in
the ditch between the ruffl e and the binding.
Snap on your Left Edge Topstitch Foot.
Then place the pocket on the towel and
stitch in place.
9. Serge ruffl e along the sides and the bottom.
Top Band and Ties:
10. Cut a strip the width of the towel plus 15”
long and 3” wide. Cut a second strip 15”
long and 3” wide.
11. Fold the long strip right sides together and
stitch 15” along one long end and across the
short end as shown. Fold the short strip
right sides together and stitch one long edge
and one short edge.
15"
12. Using your Fasturn Tube Turner, turn the
short tube, and the stitched end of the long
tube. The stitched portions are the ties.
Press.
13. Press the binding part of the strip wrong
sides together. Place the binding band on
the top of the towel right sides together,
matching the raw edges of the band with the
top edge of the towel wrap. Pin. Serge in
place using your Huskylock Serger. Place the
wrap around your body to determine where
to place the other tie. Serge the raw end of
the tie to fi nish, and stitch the tie in place
with your sewing machine.