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ITH Dancing Skeletons Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on August 28, 2024

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

06:00

FINISHED SIZE

18 x 17 inches

Description

These ITH Dancing Skeletons will dance their way into your heart this Halloween. Bind them separately to make great mug rugs or join them together as a table topper or wall hanging.

Project Preview Video

Materials

6” x 10” or larger embroidery hoop

1 yard of Orange Grunge quilting cotton

½ yard of Candy Corn print quilting cotton

6 10” x 7 ½” rectangles of low loft batting

2 ½-ounce Cut Away stabilizer to fit your hoop for 6 hoopings

17” of a 3/8” dowel

Spray Adhesive

Invisible thread

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/dskl06

Final Product: What You Will Create

Step 1:

For each block cut two 10” x 7 ½” rectangles of orange grunge and one 10” x 7 ½” rectangle of low loft batting. Tautly hoop 2.5-ounce stabilizer in your hoop.

Step 2:

Run the first color stop (CS) as a placement line for your fabric.

Step 3:

Spray adhesive on the back of an orange grunge rectangle and position over the placement lines so the fabric exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides.

Step 4:

Follow the color chart to complete the skeleton. Do not run the last two CS yet.

Step 5:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop. Lay the hoop face down on a flat surface. Spray adhesive on the low loft batting and position over the original placement line so that the batting exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides. Spray adhesive on the back fabric rectangle and align right side up over the batting.

Step 6:

Return the hoop to the machine and run the next to last color stop to tack down the batting and back fabric. Yes, this is a different skeleton in the picture as I forgot to take the picture of the other skeleton at this point.

Step 7:

Run the last color stop to quilt the project.

Step 8:

Remove the block from the hoop. Lay the ¼” mark of a see-through ruler along the original placement lines and trim all sides of the block to a ¼” seam allowance.

Step 9:

Follow the above steps to stitch out the other 5 blocks. Arrange them in the order you would like them to be in your wall hanging.

Step 10:

Align your first two blocks together without overlaps or gaps. With a wide zigzag stitch (4 to 5mm) with a space of about 4mm zigzag the two blocks together.

Step 11:

Join the 3rd block of the first row in the same manner.

Step 12:

Repeat Steps 9 and 10 to join the three blocks of the bottom row.

Step 13:

13. Trim the bottom of the first row and the top of the second row if necessary to have straight edges for join the two rows of blocks together. Align and stitch the top and bottom rows together with the zigzag stitches.

Step 14:

From the candy corn fabric cut:

a. 2 1 ¼” strips across the width of the fabric
b. 2 1 ½” strips across the width of the fabric
c. 3 2 ¼” strips across the width of the fabric for binding

Step 15:

Fold the edges if the 1 ¼” and 1 ½” strips into the center and press. Keep the wider and narrower strips separate as the narrow strips will be sewn to the back of the quilt blocks. The wider strips will be sewn to the front of the quilt blocks.

Step 16:

You can sew the sashing strips down with a straight stitch and black thread. However, I like to use a Serpentine stitch with invisible thread as it blends the stitching right into the stipple quilting of the blocks.

Step 17:

Center the narrow strips of sashing over the two vertical back seams of the back of the wall hanging. Stitch down both sides of the strips with the stitch of your choice.

Step 18:

Turn the wall hanging right side up. Stitch the wider strips over the two vertical seams.

Step 19:

Turn the wall hanging back side up and stitch the narrow sashing across the horizontal seam.

Step 20:

Turn the wall hanging right side up and stitch the remaining wider sashing strip across the horizontal seam.

Step 21:

Trim the excess sashing strips off all sides of the wall hanging.

Step 22:

You can choose to put these corner pockets on the back of the wall hanging for inserting a 17” length of a 3/8th” dowel or to put a hanging sleeve on to hang it from a quilt hanging rod. To make these dowel pockets cut two 6” square of fabric. Fold them diagonally and press. Place the raw edges of the pockets on the top corners of the wall hanging. Tack down within the ¼” seam allowance. If you want to use a quilt hanger or rod see our instructions on Attaching a Hanging Sleeve to a Mini Quilt after you bind the wall hanging.

Step 23:

Bind the wall hanging using your preferred method and then slip the dowel into the pockets.

Step 24:

Congratulations your Dancing Skeletons Wall Hanging is 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 Dancing Skeletons Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

Dancing Skeleton Quilt Blk 1

Dancing Skeleton Quilt Blk 2

Dancing Skeleton Quilt Blk 3

Dancing Skeleton Quilt Blk 4

Dancing Skeleton Blk 5

Dancing Skeleton Quilt Blk 6

ITH Dancing Skeletons

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.