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Team Bride Wine Glasses Embroidery Project

By Ramona Baird on March 27, 2018

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Intermediate

TIME REQUIRED

03:00

Description

Wine glasses that allow embroidery create a special gift for celebrating at a bridal shower or bachelorette party.

Project Preview Video

Materials

Wine glasses with removeable insert—the number desired

Embroidery thread colors as specified in the design

1 piece of white cotton fabric to fit hoop for each glass insert to be stitched

Poly mesh stabilizer

Optional: confetti or tinsel

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/embroidery-patterns/stockdesign/1/bn00531d

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

These glasses are so much fun to do and are well received gifts. Size the design if necessary, and stitch. Trim the design by using the template provided in the glass and add optional confetti or tinsel before the final assembly of the glass. Search the internet for available glasses that allow embroidery inserts—and be aware that stock changes frequently with internet vendors.

Step 1:

Gather the materials and read through the instructions before beginning. Print out a paper template of each of the designs and color sequence. Depending on the glasses you get, the design may need to be scaled down a little. For this particular set of glasses the design was scaled down 10% at the machine.

Step 2:

Disassemble the glass. For this particular glass, the inside is unscrewed from the outside and it contains paper templates that need to be saved to use for shaping the fabric to insert into the glass.

Step 3:

Check the paper insert against the template insert to determine if the design needs to be scaled down. Also, be sure the design will fit within the hoop and that when the fabric is hooped the straight of grain runs the same direction as the design. Press the fabric well with starch and then quarter fold it to find the center of the fabric. Hoop the fabric with a piece of stabilizer.

Step 4:

Load the design on the machine and adjust the size and rotate the design if needed. Align the needle to the center of the fabric and stitch the design following the color sequence.

Step 5:

For this project, second to last color was stitched in a pink instead of the color designated by the designer. Do not remove the fabric from the hoop until the next steps are completed. Fold the paper insert template in half and then quarter fold to find the center.

Step 6:

Align the folds of the paper to the folds of the fabric and place a pin to hold it in place. Use a pencil to very lightly draw around the outside of the paper template.

Step 7:

Remove the design from the hoop and generally cut it out, then cut on the pencil line around the design. There is no need to finish the edges of the fabric unless you would like to; the edges are covered after the design is inserted into the glass.

Step 8:

Place the embroidery into the glass and seat it into the grooves. As an option, insert some fun confetti or tinsel into the glass and then screw the inner portion of the glass in place. Repeat the steps of pressing the fabric, doing the embroidery, trimming the fabric, and assembling the glass for as many glasses as you need.

Step 9:

Congratulations on creating festive glasses for a bachelorette party or shower or just some girl time before the wedding.

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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.