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ITH Quarter Keepers Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on June 03, 2021

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

00:15

FINISHED SIZE

1.75 x 2.5 inches

Description

Aldi shoppers will never have to worry after attaching these cute little ITH Quarter Keepers to their keychains. Stitch them up in about 15 minutes using cute print vinyl or stitch on solid vinyl with the two cute designs.

Project Preview Video

Materials

5” x 7” embroidery hoop

2 Rectangle of Marine Vinyl 2 ½” x 4 ½”

2.5-ounce cut-away stabilizer

¾” keyring or lobster clasp

Spray Adhesive

Seam ripper

Small, sharp embroidery scissors

Kam Snaps size 20 long to coordinate with your vinyl

Kam Snap pliers

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/quakp01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/quakp02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/quakp03

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

The cute print vinyl was purchased on Amazon. You can choose to wind a bobbin with matching thread for your final outline or not.

Step 1:

Load a thread in your machine that will coordinate with the vinyl. Tautly hoop your cut-away stabilizer and run the 1st color stop (CS) as a placement line.

Step 2:

Spray adhesive on the back of a 2 ½” x 4 ½” rectangle of marine vinyl and align within the placement lines. Run CS 2 to outline the coin slot. If stitching on printed vinyl skip to Step 4.

Step 3:

Follow the color chart to embroidery the bee or the butterfly through the next to last color stop.

Step 4:

Remove the hoop from the machine. Lie the hoop on a flat surface. Insert a seam ripper inside the coin slot through the vinyl and stabilizer to create a hole so you can insert scissors.

Step 5:

Use small straight embroidery scissors to cut across the rest of the coin slot.

Step 6:

Turn the hoop face down. Spray adhesive on the remaining vinyl rectangle and align with the placement line on the back of the hoop.

Step 7:

Return the hoop to the machine to run the final placement line. The back of the work is neater if you bring the bobbin thread to the top of the work first. Do this by threading the top thread through the presser foot. While holding onto this thread tail push the needle down button twice. This will bring the bobbin thread to the top of the work. You may need a pair of tweezers to pull the bobbin thread out to the length of the top thread. Hold on to both threads and run a few stitches. Stop the machine and trim off the thread tails. Complete stitching the outline of the design.

Step 8:

Trim around the quarter keeper about 1/8” from the final seam. Fold the tab in half. Push the awl through both layers of the tab at the same time about 3/8” from the base of the tab. You will probably need to push the awl through the back of the tab again to get a large enough hole to place the Kam Snap, but it should leave a mark to let you know where to reinsert the awl.
Following the manufacturer’s instructions insert the Kam Snap covers into the right side of the tab. It does not matter which end of the tab receives the male or female snaps.

Step 9:

Insert the tab though the keyring and snap shut. Insert a quarter in the slot.

Step 10:

Congratulations your first ITH Quarter Keeper is complete. Make them by the dozens to give away as gifts or to sell at your craft fairs in towns that have an Aldi store.

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 Quarter Keepers Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

ITH Quarter Keeper 1

ITH Quarter Keeper 2

ITH Quarter Keeper 3

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.