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ITH Sewing Seeds Packets Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on July 14, 2025

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Intermediate

TIME REQUIRED

00:45

Description

These cute Sewing Seeds Packets are fun and simple to make. Added to flowers and plants they make a thoughtful gift on Mother’s Day. Just by themselves they are great gifts for your embroidery, quilting or sewing club members.

Project Preview Video

Materials

Each packet requires two 5” x 6” rectangles of acrylic washable felt

4.5” x 6” rectangle of cotton quilting fabric

Embroidery threads per the color charts for each design

Spray adhesive

A bamboo skewer (found in the kitchen section of your grocery store)

Pinking shears

Poly mesh or no-show stabilizer

5” x 7” embroidery hoop

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Pat-Williams/DesignPack/1/DPITHSSPK

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

Each Sewing Seeds Packet is made the same way so only one will be illustrated in these instructions. Pick the Sewing Seeds Packet with the thought that you want to express and proceed as follows.

Step 1:

Hoop poly mesh stabilizer in your 5” x 7” embroidery hoop.

Step 2:

The first three color stops in the color chart are outline and tack down lines for the packet and applique, so to save changing threads load your machine with the thread color listed in the 4^th color change in the design. It will do fine for the first 4 color changes in the packet. Stitch the first color sequence which gives you the outline of the packet.

Step 3:

Spray a 5” x 7” rectangle of washable felt with spray adhesive and place over the outline. Make sure that the felt exceeds the outline by ½” on all sides. Finger press in place.

Step 4:

Stitch the second color step which serves as a tack down stitch for the felt as well as a placement line for the applique fabric.

Step 5:

Spray adhesive on the back of a 4.5” x 6” rectangle of your applique fabric. Finger press over the outline making sure that the fabric exceeds the outline by ½” on all sides.

Step 6:

This will run around the fabric twice to assist you in trimming the applique fabric.

Step 7:

Remove the hoop from the machine. Do not un-hoop the project. With very sharp, small curved tipped scissors lift up the excess applique fabric and trim right up next to the tack down line. Do not cut the felt, just the applique fabric.

Step 8:

Return your hoop to the machine.

Step 9:

Follow the color sequence on your color chart until the satin stitch border is sewn. This will be the next to the last color stop on your color chart.

Step 10:

Slip the 2^nd piece of felt under the hoop and align it with the original felt in the project.

Step 11:

Run the last color sequence which will sew the back felt to the project. This color sequence is usually listed as a separate color just because the machine needs to stop to let you but the back felt in place, but you may stitch it with the same color thread that sewed the satin border.

Step 12:

Remove the project from the hoop and trim all of edges, through all layers of felt with pinking shears. You are seeing a picture of a different Sewing Seeds Packet here as apparently I didn’t take a picture at this point in the Sewing Seeds of Laughter packet at this point.

Step 13:

If you don’t have pinking shears you can trim through all layers with a rotary cutter. Just line up the ¼” mark of your ruler with the satin stitch border and trim all edges.

Step 14:

Lay you sewing seeds packet down and insert the bamboo skewer through the opening left by the last stitches. Leave the pointed side of the skewer to the outside of the placket to ease inserting that end into a plant.

Step 15:

Insert the pointed in of the skewer in a plant or give them out just as they are. Congratulations you are finished.

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.

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