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ITH Flower Power Coasters Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on January 30, 2020

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

00:25

FINISHED SIZE

4.25 x 4.25 inches

Description

Bright fabrics and craft foam combined with a single embroidery design to create these Flower Power Coasters. These are fast and easy to stitch up.

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Materials

5” x 7” embroidery hoop

5” squares of quilting cotton

3” squares of contrasting quilting cotton

5” squares of craft foam

2 layers of fibrous water-soluble stabilizer like Floriani Wet N Gone®

Magic Sizing® or spray starch

Spray adhesive

Optional 1 yard of 1/8” ribbon

Bowl of hot water and a sponge

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/ithflc01

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

Bring a little Spring into your life using these coasters whenever cold drinks will be served. Not recommended for hot drinks as heat will shrink the foam backing. Use thread colors of your choice to coordinate or contrast with your fabrics. A single color can be used for all the fabric stops.

Step 1:

Cut a 5” square of your main fabric and a 3” square of a contrasting fabric. Spray your fabrics with Magic Sizing or spray starch 3 or 4 times to make them crisp. This will help prevent fraying.

Step 2:

Tautly hoop two layers of fibrous water-soluble stabilizer. Cut a 5” square of craft foam and take it to your machine with the two squares of prepared quilting fabric from Step 1.

Step 3:

Run color stop (CS) 1 as a placement line for your main fabric.

Step 4:

Spray adhesive on the back of the main fabric. Position over the placement line so that the fabric exceeds the placement lines approximately 1/3” on all sides. Run CS 2 to tack down the fabric.

Step 5:

Run CS 3 as a placement line for the flower center.

Step 6:

Spray adhesive on the back of the flower center fabric and position over the placement line. Run CS 4 to tack down the fabric.

Step 7:

Remove the hoop from the machine – do not unhoop. Trim the applique of the center and main fabric right up to the tack down lines. To make easy work of trimming around the curves and scallops, lift the fabric straight up against the tack down stitches and trim with small in the hoop curved scissors.

Step 8:

Return the hoop to the machine and run CS 5 in the color of choice to stitch the detail around the flower center.

Step 9:

Remove the hoop from the machine – do not unhoop. Lay the hoop face down; spray adhesive on one side of the foam square; position it over the embroidery on the back of the hoop.

Step 10:

Return the hoop to the machine and run CS 6 to tack down the foam.

Step 11:

Remove the hoop from the machine – do not unhoop. Trim the foam as close as possible to the tack down stitches. Due to the foams thickness you might not get as close as you trimmed the fabric, just get as close as you can. The width of the final satin stitches will pull in the foam some.

Step 12:

Run the final CS in the color of your choice to stitch the border on the coaster.

Step 13:

Remove the coaster from the hoop. Trim away the excess stabilizer about 1/8” around the coaster.

Step 14:

Dip the sponge in the hot water and run it around the edges of the coaster to remove the remaining stabilizer.

Step 15:

Allow the completed coaster to dry.

Step 16:

Use a variety of scraps of fabrics and threads to create 5 more flower coasters.

Step 17:

A stack of six coasters tied with a 36” length of satin ribbon makes a great little gift.

Step 18:

Congratulations your first set of ITH Flower Power Coasters are complete!

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 Flower Power Coasters Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

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ITH Flower Coaster

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.