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ITH Sugar Skull Swag Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on August 10, 2022

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

TIME REQUIRED

03:00

Description

Decorate for the Day of Dead and Halloween with these easy to stitch ITH Sugar Skull designs. These skulls are designed for the 4” x 4” embroidery hoop. It takes about 28 minutes to stitch each sugar skull.

Project Preview Video

Materials

4” x 4” embroidery hoop or larger

3 sheets of Eco-Fi Glitter Felt – this is a stiff felt from Joann’s

Spray Adhesive

2.5oz stabilizer for 6 hoopings

5/8” Grosgrain ribbon

Sharp seam ripper

Purple Thang sewing tool

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/sskbn06

Final Product: What You Will Create

Step 1:

Cut two sheets of the Eco-Fi Glitter Felt sheets as shown to have two 4” x 5” rectangles of felt for each of the first four designs. Cut the 3rd sheet with two 4” x 5” rectangles for the fifth design and two 4 ½” x 5” rectangles for the sixth design.

Step 2:

Tautly hoop the stabilizer and take two rectangles of felt to the embroidery machine.

Step 3:

Run the 1st color-stop (CS) in black as a placement line on the stabilizer.

Step 4:

Spray adhesive on the wrong side of a 4” x 5” felt rectangle and position over the placement line so that the felt exceeds the placement line by 3/8” on all sides.

Step 5:

Follow the color chart to embroider the sugar skull – do not stitch the last two color-stops.

Step 6:

Remove the hoop from the machine – do not unhoop – place the hoop face down. Spray adhesive on the back of a second piece of felt and position it over the original placement lines.

Step 7:

Return the hoop to the machine. Run the next to last CS to stitch the back felt to the front. Run the last CS in white to stitch the buttonholes for the ribbon. If using a colored felt for the sugar skull match your last thread to a color to match the felt.

Step 8:

Trim around the entire sugar skull about 1/8” from the outline.

Step 9:

Open the buttonholes with a sharp seam ripper.

Step 10:

Repeat the above instructions to stitch the remaining 5 sugar skulls. Use the 4 ½” x 5” felt pieces for the last sugar skull. Cut a 45” or desired length of ribbon. Use the flat edge of a Purple Thang® or similar tool to tuck the end of the ribbon from the top of a sugar skull to the back.

Step 11:

Cross the ribbon over the back of the skull and push through the ribbon to the front.

Step 12:

Arrange the spacing between your skulls to your liking. Command Strips have several products available for hanging your swag on the wall. Check out their products to find a method that suits you.

Step 13:

Congratulations your ITH Sugar Skull Swag 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 Sugar Skull Swag Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 1

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 2

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 3

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 4

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 5

ITH Sugar Skull Swag 6

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.

ITH Sugar Skull Swag