HOW TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL APPLIQUE

hi everyone! beautiful day to make beautiful applique right ? We already know what is applique in my previous entry . So, today i'm gonna share with you guys how to make applique.

The supplies you will need are:

• A no-show mesh cut away stabilizer
• Water Soluble Stabilizer
• A Ball-point needle
• Pair of duck bill applique scissors
• Heat N Bond Lite

Hoop your no show mesh cutaway stabilizer .

Prepare your applique fabrics with  HNBL ( Heat N bond Lite ) will keep your applique fabrics from bubbling and wrinkling after washing. Cut a piece of HNBL to match each applique piece but just a tad smaller than the fabric

With your iron setting on medium, iron the HNBL onto fabric.

Once fabric has cooled, remove the paper.

Lay your applique fabric down after stitching your guideline. stitch your tack down and cut around the edges as close as you can without snipping the threads. but if you do accidently snip your threads, don’t freak out, when you adhere the HNBL, the fabric wont shift.

Now that the applique fabrics are cut out, remove your hoop from the machine and bring it over to your ironing board, we are going to iron the HNBL onto the shirt now

Let your shirt cool for a few seconds, then grab your water soluble stabilizer. I am going to pin a layer of this on top now that my applique fabrics are complete. The WSS will keep my stitches looking crisp and flat, this is how you get those nice thick, flat satin stitches.

Put your hoop back onto your machine and finish with your satin & decorative stitches.

Remove your hoop and peel off your wss from the top.

little tip for removing wss from little stubbirn spots, use a clean, new pencil eraser and rub it on the wss and it will pull up.

I really hope this tutorial helps you in making GREAT appliques.

COMPUTERIZED EMBROIDERY THREAD

TYPES OF MACHINE EMBROIDERY THREADS

RAYON

Rayon is the most popular and affordable machine embroidery thread. It is easy to find, simple to use and available in hundreds of vibrant colors.
Made of organic cellulose, rayon fibers have a luxurious sheen and soft touch, but, despite their beautiful presentation, they can fade over time.

POLYESTER

Due to their strength and vibrancy, polyester threads are becoming a new favorite for machine embroiderers and quilters. Shiny and easy to use, like rayon, these synthetics have the added advantage of being fade- and bleach-resistant. That makes polyester a good choice for embroidering on items that will be laundered frequently and could possibly be bleached, like children’s clothing, towels and linens.

polyester threads are very strong because they are created from multiple filaments. Their triangular shape helps them reflect even more light than standard polyester and rayon threads.

COTTON

The ultimate natural fiber, cotton thread is an age-old standby and a favorite in heirloom and traditional embroidery. The absolute best cotton threads are made from long-staple Egyptian cotton that, in addition to being strong, are nearly free of lint.Most cotton threads have more of a matte finish when compared to polyester or rayon. Machine embroidery with cotton thread mimics hand-embroidery , making it ideal for quilting , bean stitch and cross-stitch designs.

SILK

Silk threads are unmatched in their appearance and function. Another natural fiber, silk has the stability of cotton and the strength of polyester but a shine that is unlike any of its counterparts.Extremely fine at 100 wt., silk is a favorite of hand and machine-embroidered applique enthusiasts. Stitches nearly disappear when silk thread is used.

WHAT IS APPLIQUE

Applique is a french term, meaning ‘applied’ or ‘a thing that has been applied’ which really describes the process handily. When we use applique, we custom-cut a piece of applique fabric, usually polyester twill, to fill a large area in an embroidered design.

Appliques (patches) can really add a lot to your artwork. Using your embroidery machine to do this actually makes it very simple.  The hardest part is deciding what to applique on to your garment.  One way to find unique items to applique on is to go to a “specialty fabric shop” and find fabrics that would lend themselves to being either a background or print fabrics that would lend themselves to being cut out and use the printed design to applique on our project. So, today i'm going to show you guys a video where i got it from youtube to make you guys understand more how the applique technique was using in embroidery.

COMPUTERIZED EMBROIDERY DESIGN

hey guys, to make a beautiful embroidery of course we need the beautiful design on the embroidery right? So, i'm gonna show you guys some of beautiful design made by computerized embroidery machine. I'm really sure that you guys gonna like it so much.

EMBROIDERY ON BURP CLOTH :Personalized Baby

Making customized baby burp cloths as part of a gift set for friends who are expecting or who have new babies.  It has been a fun way to learn and to get to know my machine.  The mommies are always so excited so it really is encouraging!  This post shows how to make embroidery on burp cloths.

This method uses a cloth diaper as a base.This method fully encloses the back side of the diaper (so that none of the back of the stitching is visible) and has decorative fabric ends so that the project is fully finished!

Create a design and make sure to include a basting box. Print off a paper version of the design using the software and copy the design on a USB drive and move it to machine.

Diapers will shrink so the first thing we do is to wash and dry them.  Wash them with hot water and no detergent and dry with regular heat. (This project does not use any applique, but when  do applique designs on a burp cloths,  pre-wash and dry those fabrics too.   Iron with starch on the fronts and apply Heat N Bond light on the back sides of the applique fabrics).   

Once washed,  iron the diaper to try to get back to a smooth, rectangular shape, pulling on grain diagonally if needed.

Cut off one end at a 90 degree angle from the sides.  Since it won't be straight on the end after washing, this will also help the finished project to be straight.

Flip it over to the back and, using a seam ripper, carefully and quickly remove the two inside stitching lines that hold the padding in place. like this kind of diaper because the padding adds dimension to the stitching (it is even more fun with applique).  Open it enough so that the design will fit. Goal here is to stitch on the front and padding and then re-stitch the backing down to cover the back stitches of the embroidery and/or applique. use paper pattern to help decided how much stitching to remove. 

Hoop medium-weight cut-away stabilizer.  It will be completely hidden on the finished project because it will be enclosed in the diaper.  Used cut-away because the stitching will hold up to even the roughest laundering situations, as is often the case on things made to be covered in messes.  

Flip the diaper back over to the right side and determine where we want the applique design to be placed.  Use the paper print out to do this.  

Use a thumbtack method to transfer the position of design instead of making marks on the fabric. ( place paper pattern on the hoop, matching cross-hairs, then  place thumbtacks at the center and on one leg of one axis.  The thumbtacks leave marks on the paper pattern. Move the paper pattern off the hooped stabilizer.   Spray my hooped and marked stabilizer with textile adhesive.  Move the paper pattern to the diaper and place it using a ruler to find the center.  Tape the pattern in place and pick up the diaper with taped-on design and lay it on the hoop, making sure the thumbtacks go in the exact same holes as before.  Remove the thumbtacks and smooth the fabric on the hoop to best adhere it.  Diaper is now floated in place on my hoop and temporarily attached with spray adhesive.   Roll up the sides and pin or clip out of the way to prevent them from accidentally getting stitched under the hoop.

Top with the filmy kind of Water Soluble Stabilizer (WSS)  because the padding of the diaper can cause the stitches to sink down; this will prevent that.  Begin stitch out, making sure that  basting box is the first sewing step.  This holds the diaper on the hoop, as the textile adhesive is only temporary.  It is even more important for those diaper burp pads that use applique! 

used the machine to do the embroidery.This machine is a single needle with a  hoop.

After the design is complete,  remove from the hoop, clip all jump stitches on the front and as many as possible on the back.  The back won't show so it is not imperative to do this perfectly on the back, but long threads should be clipped. remove all the WSS. use the end of Stitch Fix seam ripper .

trim the cut-away stabilizer close to the the design. 

straighten out the diaper and place the back pieces in their original places so that it looks like it did at the beginning.  

 Then take the diaper to the sewing machine and stitch up the inside lines that had removed previously, skipping over areas that have machine embroidery or applique.  

Using an edge foot or being careful to stitch on the very edge of the fabric, sew all the way down the strip.  

On the other end of the diaper, again, trim off the end of the diaper and follow the same steps to add a decorative fabric trim to that end as well.

The finished front of the burp cloth.

EMBROIDERY ON COTTON FABRIC

Hello everyone! Today i'm going to share with you guys what has kak azzah taught about embroidery on cotton fabric which is used the computerised embroidery machine. Besides the cotton fabric this design also can be used on other fabric such as chifon , satin etc. So, this is the few steps of embroidery on cotton fabric.