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'DOLLY the Llama' Raw Edge Applique Design Drawn and digitized by myself - I hope you enjoy stitching her! Full instructions included.. 4 sizes included Fits to fill 5X7 (4.01" x 7"), 6X10 (5.85" x 10.21") (shown in image), 8x8 (4.43" x 7.78") and 8x12 (6.77" x 11.8") You will receive the following formats DST EXP HUS JEF PES VIP VP3 XXX If you need a different format or size please message me. This is a digital download ONLY for the embroidery image listed in picture. You must have a computer with an embroidery machine to use this file. Resizing is not recommended. Occasionally designs do not resize properly when you do this. You may use this embroidery file for embroidering for yourself, or to sell items you have embroidered with this design. If you do create items using 'DOLLY the Llama' I would very much appreciate if you could acknowledge Crafty Hound Designs and me as creator of the design. Thank you. Please do not resell my designs as it takes many hours to digitize and test them and so please respect that.

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As far off as it seems now, summer will be upon us before we know it, along with the warmer temperatures. Our gardens will be green (hopefully), and the insect life will be buzzing. Dragonflies are nice because they don't bite, like some of the other summer insects, and they come in all different sizes and colors. They are beautiful when the sun hits them just right, and that's what we were going for with our most recent pattern—the Dragonfly and Fern. We've used a variegated, shimmer, ribbon-floss from Painter's Threads for the body, and a little bit of organza for the wings to simulate that little bit of shimmer that dragonflies have. A few little beads to give him some bling, and he is ready to fly! Here are some tips and pictures to help you make your summertime dragonfly and fern. First I glued my entire pattern onto freezer paper and then cut out the fern as one piece. Then I ironed it onto the green wool that had been backed with fusible. I don't often use fusible, but because the fern was one big piece with lots of leaves, everything stayed in place better this way. Cut out the wing pieces and the body piece. You will iron the wings onto two different colors of wool, but the body piece will just be used as a guide for your embroidery. Freezer paper fern ready to be ironed onto wool Once the fern was ironed onto the background, I whipstitched all the way around the fern. Then I used an angled blanket stitch for the leaves in a lighter shade of green floss with two strands. I use Weeks Dye Works "Bullfrog" floss as it had some great color variations in it. With the fern stitched down, I positioned the wings in place. I pinned a piece of organza ribbon over one wing and blanket stitched it down with one strand of floss. Then I carefully trimmed around the excess organza around the wing, being careful not to snip my blanket stitches. It will be easier if you do one wing at a time Two down and two to go! The wings trimmed. Now to the dragonfly body! The tail is made by making chain stitches with the shimmer ribbon-floss. I used the body pattern as a guide for how long the tail should be. My tail was made up of 9 chain stitches at about an eighth of an inch each. After the chain stitches were finished, I added a 7-8 wrap bullion knot—made up of 3 strands of dark teal floss—in each chain stitch. The effect of the bullions in the tail is subtle, but they add depth. The rest of the body is made up of French knots using the ribbon-floss. Three bullion knots make the head. Use one strand of floss and a straight stitch for the legs. The final touch was to add some tiny beads to the wings using a feather stitch. Add the bead to your needle as you make each feather. This block went together rather quickly, and hopefully it will for you too! The ladies in our class enjoyed working with the ribbon-floss and the organza—both of which are included in the pattern when you purchase it. Lots of happy stitching! Until the warm days of summer grace us with their presence, we hope you will enjoy stitching this block—and all the other blocks in our In the Garden series. To order your pattern, click here: https://www.needleseyestories.com/shop Past posts in the BOM series: Introducing "In the Garden," A BOM Series: Cornflowers "In the Garden"—Oak Leaves and Acorns "In the Garden"—Violets "In the Garden"—Cardinals and Holly "In the Garden"—Rose "In the Garden"—Robin and Forsythia

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Welcome to week 4 of the Fellowship of the Flowers! Can you believe it has been 4 weeks already? This year is going to fly by. Remember, you can see all my finished flowers for each week by clicking the Fellowship of the Flowers tab above. This week we have the Daisy! This is the first of 6 flowers which will be used in our mystery project the end of February. So if you want to plan colors etc. now is the time to do it. For these 6 flowers, I will be doing more embroidery stitches and not as much with beads. There will still be some yarn accents and even some buttons. Now remember, part of the fun of this Fellowship is the mystery project. So don't assume that each flower will always be used in every project because it won't. I tell you every week what the flower will be used for. You can join the Fellowship any time. Hop over here to my CRAFTSY SHOP to sign up. All the details about the Fellowship are listed on the first page you download. Email me with any other questions. You can only get the patterns by joining the Fellowship. I will have wool felt kits and thread kits available all year in my SHOP. I ship worldwide. Have you joined one of the groups? We have bunches of friends sharing their flowers. Links to the groups are on my right sidebar. So, what will you do with your flower this week? xx, Michelle and the Bunnies

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I actually really LOVE the art of appliqué! Even though I don't use it that much (practically never) but I do love seeing others' works on the Internet and appreciate the artistry so much :) My October project that I've mentioned earlier in this post is also appliqué-friendly and, personally, I'm going to experiment a little in this field! So I thought if anyone wants to try the same I should tell a bit more about the methods of applique in advance. Method 1 So, the first thing you should remember is that the majority of fabrics tend to fray on the edge. And because of this, if you just simply baste a cutout to the ground fabric, eventually it will fray quite a lot even if at first it doesn't look like it. However, sometimes this kind of ragged and frazzled edge might be the desired effect! Especially, for enthusiasts of rustic style. In such cases, this method is what you need. And, basically, all you need to do is just work back stitch along the whole shape, stepping a little away from the edge. Make your stitches rather small so that all of the fibers are secured. I'm using quilting cotton in this example and it doesn't really fray that much – I frayed it myself for this picture as well as I could. However, if you use linen, for example, it is likely to fray a lot easier and the fibers might pull apart right in front of the stitches. In this case, your back stitching should be even smaller. Method 2 If you don't want the edges to fray, you can work buttonhole (blanket) stitch around the shape. You can work it more densely, of course, like I did in one of the examples in this post. By the way, I'm using a thread of contrasting color for all of the appliqué methods in this article to make it more clear. Naturally, you can use thread of a color similar to the appliqué cutout if you don't want it to stand out too much. Ah, and this method is commonly used in felt applique! Method 3 Now, if you don't want any fraying to take place but also don't want to work a border of buttonhole stitch around it, you can use a fusible interfacing! :) Instructions are easy: 1) cut a piece of interfacing material equal to the piece of fabric you want to apply it too, 2) interfacing material has two sides, one of which is adhesive. Put the interfacing piece with the adhesive side up, and lay the fabric piece on top of it, with its backside down and face up. In conclusion, the adhesive side should be next to the backside of the fabric. 3) iron it thoroughly (settings of heat are according to the type of fabric) staying for several seconds in one place. When you have applied interfacing with the fabric, cut the shape out of it. The thing is, the fibers are now glued from underneath so they are going to hold together and are very unlikely to fray. It is almost like paper. Well, unless you expose it some rough tugging like in a washing machine or if you use it on everyday clothes So, what you will do now will depend on your artistic choice. If you want it to look raw like it is, you can baste it down with tiny running stitches of similar color. Or you can use any decorative stitch, you can find many on the Stitch Library. I used french knots here :) Method 4 This one is likely to look a bit more dimensional, but there is like 0 chances for any fraying to happen. And again, we need interfacing material (it will give a certain advantage but actually you can use another fabric, I will mention it below). BUT we need to put fabric and interfacing material in a different manner now! So, what we do is we put fabric face up, and then we lay interfacing material with adhesive side down. So, the face of the fabric and the adhesive side are supposed to be looking at each other. Then you can draw the shape down and backs titch along the edge. Cut the shape out with a seam allowance and cut a slit in the interfacing material. The turn it out. Now you have a shape like this – face of the fabric up and adhesive side down. You can now place it where you need on the ground fabric and iron it down. If you want to secure it even better, you can stitch a border of buttonhole stitch again, or baste it down in any other way. Or you can work invisible stitch like I did in this example. Like I mentioned, this method can be used with a different fabric instead of interfacing material. Just skip the ironing part and baste the piece down in the way you prefer the most :) So, here are 4 methods for your fabric appliqué! As for me, methods 2 and 3 are what I'm more likely to use but in the end, it all depends on the situation. Hope you find the method you of your liking too and try some appliqué in your next project! :)

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