How is your Christmas sewing coming along?
December 10, 2014
More Trees
I've been working on more of the free motion quilted tree ornaments I shared before.
This time I'm making them a little differently. Before, I made the ornament and then stitched the tree through both layers. Since I wasn't using batting I wanted to have the two layers of fabric to help stabilize all those stitches, but there was still a little distortion as you can see in the ornament on the right. The one on the left is made with the new method. I'm using a tear away stabilizer and only stitching the tree onto the front piece. Then, after removing the stabilizer, I put the ornament together. It makes for a much neater finished product, don't you think?
I also tried a new fmq design. I quite like the swirl-filled tree! Hopefully this evening I'll have a chance to finish the ones I have half done.
How is your Christmas sewing coming along?
How is your Christmas sewing coming along?
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How neat that you modified your process a bit, and I do really like the swirls in the tree! Those are going to be lovely ornaments. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the swirl tree!! What a special ornament :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference some stabilizer makes. They are looking great!
ReplyDeleteLove the swirls Leanne!
ReplyDeleteThe swirls look great! These are going to really dress up your Christmas tree. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty, what a lovely idea!
ReplyDeletePretty and cool Leanne!
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute! What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI love these trees! I don't have an embroidery machine but these would be cute hand embroidered as well. blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteLove the tree FMQ! Happy New Year!
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