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ITH Leprechaun Triptych Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on March 07, 2025

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

04:30

Description

Whimsical leprechauns to keep you out of mischief on St. Patrick’s Day. Each panel is embroidered and quilted in the hoop with the binding applied at your sewing machine.

Project Preview Video

Materials

6” x 10” embroidery hoop or larger

4” x 9” Ackfeld Manufacturing Scroll Tri Stand

1/3rd yard White Kona® cloth

1/3rd yard Shamrock Print Quilting Cotton

20” Battilizer® or low loft batting

3 pieces of stable 2.5 ounce cut away stabilizer to fit your hoop

Spray adhesive

Water Soluble Thread

Optional – miniature birds with wires purchased from Hobby Lobby

Self-adhesive bandage – optional for hoop

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lptk01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lptk02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lptk03

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

Long rectangular hoops have a tendency to let stabilizer pull in along the sides when there are fill stitches in a design. Use the tips included in these instructions to minimize that pull.

Step 1:

I do not have a 6” x 12” embroidery hoop, so the pictures are shown with a 7” x 12” hoop. A situation that would even allow greater slippage of the stabilizer in the hoop. If your hoops gap on the sides wrap both sides of the inner hoop with self-adhesive bandage. This will allow the hoop to grip the stabilizer.

Step 2:

Use a strong cut away stabilizer, such as Madeira’s Extra Stable. This is a 2.5 ounce extra stable stabilizer. Hoop it tautly in your hoop.

Step 3:

For the quilted blocks cut:

a. 6 White Kona Cloth 10” x 6”
b. 3 Battilizer® 10” x 6”
c. 3 rectangles of stabilizer to fit your hoop

Step 4:

Run the 1st color stop (CS) as a placement line.

Step 5:

Spray adhesive on the white fabric and position over the outlines so that the fabric exceeds the placement lines by at least ½” on all sides.

Step 6:

Follow the color chart until you reach the last two CS. Do not stitch the last two CS yet. Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop.

Step 7:

Lay the hoop face down; spray the Battilizer® with adhesive and smooth it on the back of the hoop aligning with your block on the front of the hoop. Spray adhesive on the back block fabric and smooth over the Battilizer®.

Step 8:

Run the next CS in water soluble thread to tack down all layers of the block. Run the last CS in white to quilt the block.

Step 9:

Remove the block from the hoop. Lay the ¼” mark of a see-through ruler along the water- soluble thread tack down lines and trim all sides to ¼”.

Step 10:

This is what your first completed block will look like. Completed the 2nd and 3rd blocks following the above steps.

Step 11:

Cut 3 2 ¼” strips the width of the shamrock fabric. Use one strip on each of the blocks for the binding. Bind using your favorite method or see our article Binding Small Embroidery Projects.

Step 12:

Using strips of fabric cut to the width of the blocks and 3” wide create small hanging sleeves and hand stitch to the blocks. Make sure the hanging sleeves are stitched ½” below the top of the quilt blocks. If you do not know how to create a hanging sleeve see our article Attaching a Hanging Sleeve to a Mini Quilt.

Step 13:

Load the mini quilts onto the Ackfeld 4” x 9” Scroll Tri Stand and have yourself a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. Add some miniature birds to the frame if desired by wrapping their wires around the frame.

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

ITH Leprechaun Triptych Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

ITH Leprechaun 1 Quilt Block

ITH Leprechaun 2 Quilt Block

ITH Leprechaun 3 Quilt Block

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.