The Jesus with Lamb center block is embroidered and quilted in the hoop. The borders and sashing are added at your sewing machine for an elegant Easter Wall Hanging.
Cut 2 linen and 1 rectangle of Battilizer® or low loft batting 12” x 10”. Tautly hoop the stabilizer in your embroidery hoop.
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All blackwork embroidery looks best when a black bobbin is used. Load a black bobbin in your machine.
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If using a multi-needle machine, you will need to rotate your design to the right or left. If using a single needle machine, you will not have to do this.
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Run the 1st color-stop (CS) in any color as a fabric placement line.
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Spray adhesive on a 12” x 10” rectangle of Battilizer® or low loft batting and position over the placement lines, so the fabric exceeds the placement line by at least ½” on all sides.
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Spray adhesive on a 12” x 10” rectangle of white linen and align over the Battilizer®. Stitch CS 2 in the water-soluble thread to tack down the fabric and Battilizer®. I used black thread just so it would show better in the photo.
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Run CS 3 in black to embroidery Jesus and the lamb.
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Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop. Lay the hoop faces down on a flat surface. Spray adhesive on the second linen rectangle and place over the design on the back of the hoop so that the fabric exceeds the original placement line by ½” on all sides.
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Return the hoop to the machine and run CS 4 in the water-soluble thread to stitch the tack down of the back fabric to the front. Black thread was used in this sample, so you could see it in the photo.
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Place the ¼” mark of a see-through ruler along the tack down stitches and trim each side to a ¼” seam allowance.
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For the borders cut:
4 strips of Blue-Grey Grunge fabric 2 ½” x 12 ½.”
4 strips of Blue-Grey Grunge fabric 2 ½” x 15”
2 Battilizer® strips 2 ½” x 12 1/2”
2 Battilizer® strips 2 ½” x 15
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To make quilt sandwiches for the borders, spray one side of a Battilizer® strip with spray adhesive; align a corresponding strip face up over the Battilizer®; spray the other side of the Battilizer® with adhesive and align a 2nd corresponding strip of fabric on top. Do this for all the fabric and Battilizer® strips.
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Select a wide zigzag stitch on your sewing machine with a width of 5 to 5.5mm and spacing of 4 mm. I used black sewing thread throughout these next steps to finish the project.
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Take the short border strips and butt them to the sides of the center panel without gaps and overlaps. The border strip should extend beyond the top and bottom of the center panel by about ½”. Using your presser foot as a guide, zigzag the side borders to the center panel.
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Lay the project on your cutting mat and trim the tops and bottoms of the excess borders even with the center panel.
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Attach the top and bottom borders as you did the side borders in Step 14.
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Trim the top and bottom excess borders.
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From your binding and sashing fabric cut:
2 1 ¼” strips the width of the fabric for sashing
2 1 ½” strips the width of the fabric for sashing
2 2 ¼” strips the width of the fabric for binding
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Take the sashing strips, spray them with Magic Size or starch; fold the long sides into the middle, and press. Keep the narrow strips separate from the wider strips. The narrow strips are used on the back of the project, and the wider strips are used on the front.
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You may use any type of stitch you have to stitch the sashing to the placemat. I used an E stitch to stitch the sashing as well as the bonding down on this project.
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Turn your wall hanging backside up. Center a narrow strip of sashing over the side zigzag seam line. Have the sashing extend just a little beyond the top and bottom of the whole wall hanging. Stitch down both sides of sashing with the E stitch or other stitch of your choice.
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Repeat Step 21 on the other short side of the wall hanging.
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Turn the wall hanging right side up. Stitch the wider sashing strips centered over the side seams as you did on the back.
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Turn the wall hanging backside up again. Stitch the narrow sashing strips centered over the zigzag seams of the top and bottom borders.
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Turn the wall hanging right side up and stitch down the wider, sashing over the horizontal zigzag seams as in Step 23.
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Trim the excess sashing strips all around the wall hanging.
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Cut 2 4” squares of fabric and fold in half on the bias to form two triangles to use to insert the dowel. Pin the triangles to the top of the quilt with the raw edges on the outside edges of the wall hanging. Baste in place with a 1/8” seam allowance. Then bind as desired. If you do not have a preferred binding method, see our article “Binding Small Embroidery Projects."
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Congratulations, your Jesus with Lamb Wall Hanging is complete! A beautiful wall hanging for Easter or all year long.
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.
