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Love Pillow Embroidery Project

By Ramona Baird on January 04, 2016

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Experienced

TIME REQUIRED

04:30

Description

Beautiful letters artfully arranged along with lace and trim make for a romantic pillow for Valentine’s Day or a wedding ring pillow.

Project Preview Video

Materials

Satin fabric (for top and back--amount depends upon how letters are arranged and hoop size)

Poly mesh stabilizer

Tearaway stabilizer

Embroidery thread in chosen colors

Lace trim to go around pillow

Beading trim to go around bottom of lace on pillow

Embroidery software (optional)

Fiberfill for stuffing the pillow

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Windmill-Designs/1/Font7_O

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Windmill-Designs/1/Font7_L

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Windmill-Designs/1/Font7_V

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Windmill-Designs/1/Font7_E

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

Use embroidery software to set up the letters for the pillow. Stitch the letters, add lace trims and stuff to create a romantic pillow that can be used as a ring bearer pillow for a wedding or a bed or chair pillow for the bedroom.

Step 1:

Gather the materials and choose the threads. If this pillow is being used for a wedding, coordinate the thread colors to the wedding colors. Use a wide lace trim (2” wide was used in the project) and other beading-type trim for around the pillow. The amounts will depend upon the finished size of the pillow.

Step 2:

Open the embroidery software and create a new page. Insert the “Holiday Holly L” design.

Step 3:

Insert the remaining Holiday Holly O, V, E” designs and place them into position within the hoop area as shown. Get them as close to the position as you’d like. For the project, the letters were placed two inches apart vertically and horizontally.

Step 4:

Use the alignment tools to align all the letters vertically and horizontally to one another.

Step 5:

Check the size of the finished design. Make any further adjustments to the alignment you’d like. Save the file and export the design for stitching.

Step 6:

Hoop a piece of satin fabric larger than needed. After the embroidery is done the fabric will cut down to the finished size of the pillow plus seam allowances. For the project, the fabric was hooped with poly mesh behind the satin fabric and tearaway stabilizer on the bottom. Load the design on the machine and stitch following the color sequence.

Step 7:

Remove the fabric from the hoop and press if needed. Use a gridded ruler to measure and mark the cutting lines for the pillow. For the project, the lines were made 2 1/12” from the outer most edges of the design. Cut along the marks made and gently round the corners of the pillow top. Remove the excess tearaway stabilizer.

Step 8:

Pin the lace right side down around the outer edge of the pillow top, easing a bit more around the corners. Baste the lace to the pillow top.

Step 9:

Next, pin the beading lace so it rests right along the bottom edge of the first lace sewn on. While doing this, keep the seam allowance to the right. Stitch the beading lace in place turning under the edge at the end.

Step 10:

Cut a second piece of satin fabric for the pillow back the same size as the pillow front. Pin the pieces, right sides together, keeping the lace to the inside of the pillow out of the seam line. Stitch the pillow front to the pillow back leaving an opening at the bottom for turning.

Step 11:

Turn the pillow right side out through the opening.

Step 12:

Form the corners well and gently pull on the lace to pull the seam lines into position.

Step 13:

Stuff the pillow with the fiberfill through the opening.

Step 14:

At the opening, turn the seam allowances toward the inside and pin the seam closed. Hand stitch the opening closed.

Step 15:

Congratulations on creating a beautiful and romantic pillow.

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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.

Love Pillow Embroidery Project

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