Season’s Greetings Wreath Embroidery Project

By Ramona Baird on November 03, 2015

SKILL LEVELIntermediate
TIME REQUIRED04:30

Description

Have fun creating a lighted decorative wreath to welcome guests to your home this holiday season.

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Materials

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Materials

20” light up wreath

Fabric to fit design and hoop

Two layers of tearaway stabilizer

Embroidery thread as stated in design

One piece of fleece to fit behind the finished stitching

Pine cones

Two large bells

Two balsa wood boards

1 sheet of felt, light colored for behind boards

Heat ‘n Bond Lite

Glue gun and glue sticks

Two 1 ½” bells or other trims to decorate the wreath as desired

Optional: 1 sheet of Cover up

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Machine-Embroidery-Designs/StockDesign/1/24395

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

A wreath that lights up creates warmth to the greetings it shares. Gather pinecones from the yard to adorn the wreath and stitch up a greeting that will be fused to balsa wood and centered in the wreath to welcome holiday guests.

Step 1:

Gather the supplies and read through the instructions before beginning. Be sure to follow all the safety precautions by the manufacturer on the wreath you purchase to use. Print out a paper template of the embroidery design.

Step 2:

Generally cut around the design template and get an idea of how the finished design will be centered on the wreath. Cut a piece of fabric large enough to hoop and hoop the fabric with two layers of tearaway stabilizer.

Step 3:

Load the design “Season’s Greetings” on the machine. If the fabric is dark in color, place a piece of Cover-Up over the top of the fabric to keep the darker color of the fabric from bleeding through the lighter thread colors that will be stitched.

Step 4:

Stitch the design following the color sequence.

Step 5:

Before the text stitches, remove the Cover Up not caught in the stitched area, and then stitch the text.

Step 6:

Remove the fabric from the hoop and trim the fabric leaving about 1” around the outer most edges of the design plus ½” seam allowances all around. Press under the seam allowances.

Step 7:

Cut a piece of fleece the size of the finished pressed piece. Cut and fuse a piece of Heat ‘n Bond to one side of the piece. Remove the protective paper and place the fuse side to the back side of the embroidered fabric, tucking the edges under the pressed edges of the embroidered fabric. Fuse the fleece to the back side of the embroidery.

Step 8:

Work with the balsa wood carefully. It is going to be fused with felt and the embroidered piece so that will strengthen it, but balsa wood is very light weight and splits and chips easily. Cut the balsa wood about 3-4” longer than the finished embroidered piece and also cut a piece of fleece larger than the embroidered piece.

Step 9:

Cut and fuse a piece of Heat ‘n Bond Lite to the back side of the fleece. Place one piece of balsa wood on top of the fused side matching the edges. Flip the piece over and fuse the fleece to the balsa wood; let it cool. Next butt the second piece of balsa wood right next to the first.

Step 10:

Cut the felt to match the size of the two balsa wood pieces. Fuse the second piece of balsa wood to the fleece. It is ok to do it from the right side quickly just to make sure the edges stay butted together and then flip the piece over and fuse the fleece to the balsa wood from the back side.

Step 11:

Cut and fuse of piece of Heat ‘n Bond Lite to the back side of the embroidered piece. Remove the protective paper and center the embroidered piece over the balsa wood section; fuse in place. To prevent the wood from warping, place something flat over it and let the piece cool completely.

Step 12:

Now it is time to assemble the wreath. Place the embroidered piece in the center of the wreath and form the greenery on the wreath to hold it in place. Use a hot glue gun to add pinecones to the wreath.

Step 13:

Also add bells or any other trims you’d like.

Step 14:

Hang the wreath.

Step 15:

At night, turn on the lights to the wreath to greet your holiday guests with “Season’s Greetings”.

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Meet the Author: Ramona Baird

Ramona Baird has been in the embroidery industry for over 23 years. She and her husband owned a commercial and retail embroidery store in Arizona for many years. She is an experienced digitizer having been mentored by award-winners Pat Williams and Lindee Goodall. Ramona is a contributor to “Creative Machine Embroidery” magazine having 5 covers to her credit. Ramona has worked for Wilcom America and served many years as Education Director for the American Sewing Guild. With a degree in fashion design, she is able to design and execute patterns which Pat Williams says are “out of the box” in creativity and application. Ramona likes to challenge the boundaries of embroidery and bring new and exciting designs, ideas, and projects to EmbroideryDesigns.com. She wants embroiderers of all levels to increase their skills and enjoyment in using their embroidery machine for gift-making and personal pleasure.

Season’s Greetings Wreath Embroidery Project

Materials

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Seasons Greetings

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2 oz wt.