Episode 199: At Your Side Virtually! Mug Rug and Coffee Deco with Kathy Stipe and Barb Mikolajczyk

Episode 199: At Your Side Virtually! Mug Rug and Coffee Deco with Kathy Stipe and Barb Mikolajczyk

Episode 199 ~ At your side 🧵 Virtually! Create a mug run and decorate your coffee mug with vinyl

Join Brother Brand Ambassador Angela Wolf and Brother Educator’s Kathy Stipe and Barb Mikolajczyk 

Designing Mug Rugs in My Design Center-Quick and Easy

Supplies needed:

      • Threads of your choice
      • 5×7” Frame (or whatever you want)
      • Tear away stabilizer
      • Top fabric (size needed to have enough to cut a little excess around the outer edges)
      • Batting (again to fit)
      • 2 Back pieces (enough to fold each piece in half – wrong sides together- and have 1” overlap in the middle of the back at the folds).

To create your design Using My Design Center:

      1. Pick shape wanted (or draw it or Scan it in)
      2. Size to slightly bigger (.5) then you want the finished Mug Rug (assign single run stitch to it for placement)
      3. Save to memory in MCD
      4. All clear
      5. If piecing, draw lines for “seams” * Make sure no lines intersect!
      6. Save to memory as the 2nd step
      7. All clear
      8. Bring in Scanned saying (or add it in embroidery)
      9. Add shape around wording or design if desired
      10. Save to memory
      11. Add quilting where desired (using established shapes)
      12. Save to memory as a separate step
      13. Make another identical shape (as the original) only assign triple stitch to it and make it slightly smaller than the placement stitch
      14. Save in memory as a separate step

Bring each step over to Embroidery and save in Memory

Build your Final Design for the Mug Rug in the Embroidery side.

Bring in:

  1. Placement Stitch
  2. ADD
  3. Piecing seams (if there are any) From Pocket
  4. ADD
  5. Wording and or Quilting from the pocket (if there is either)
  6. Final stitch is the outside shape in triple stitch and slightly smaller than the placement stitch.

You have created your complete design!!!

Instructions to stitch out: 

  1. Hoop Tearaway stabilizer
  2. Stitch the placement stitch
  3. Lay the batting down (cover the placement line)
  4. Lay center piece right side up over the batting
  5. If Piecing: Lay the different sections of piecing right side down. Make sure the edge to be the seam will be under the stitch and that you have enough fabric to fold over after the seam is stitched to cover the area needed.
  6. Do all the piecing one piece at a time
  7. Stitch the saying or embroidery and the quilting
  8. Back: Fold both pieces in half with wrong sides together and finger press or press

Lay the 2 back pieces on top of the hoop with the folds overlapping in the middle about an inch

  1. Stitch the final stitch (triple stitch of the total outside shape.
  2. Trim around all edges to ¼” and pay special attention to trimming the corners.
  3. Turn right side out through the folds in the back.
  4. Poke edges and corners
  5. Press

Catch the Next Show …

Be sure to catch At Your Side Virtually! every Tuesday and Thursday at NOON Eastern / 9:00am Pacific and Behind the Scenes live on Facebook and YouTube every Wednesday at 1:30pm / 10:30am Pacific.  I will post the replays here on the blog too 🙂 

cheers,

 

 

 

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Pant Sloper Fitting Online Course

Pant Sloper Fitting Online Course

Pant Sloper Fitting Online Course

Learn to fit your own pant sloper! Then take that sloper and turn it into a pattern.

This class will be taught in a virtual & online setting; offering 5 live lessons with additional videos for specific fitting issues. You will have an opportunity to watch the class live and/or the replay and the online class will remain open as long as Angela Wolf Academy is open.  At the end of class there will be an opportunity for private zoom fitting sessions for an additional charge.

ANGELA WOLF PDF SLOPER PATTERN INCLUDED IN SIZE 0 – 36W

  • Lesson 1: Fitting Instructions
    • Learn how to take your own accurate measurements
    • Compare your measurements to the Angela Wolf Pants Sloper Pattern
    • Raising the waistline
    • Changing the leg shape
  • Lesson 2: Flat Pattern Alterations
    • Full tummy
    • Full Hip
    • High Hip
    • Front Crotch Curve
    • Back Crotch Curve
    • Full thigh
    • Hyperextended Calf
  • Lesson 3: Check the Fit
    • Read the wrinkles
    • Crotch curve chaos
    • Lower the Crotch curve vs. taking in the inseam
  • Lesson 4: Waistband
    • Design your own curved waistband
    • Design a straight waistband on the bias
    • Design an elastic waistband
  • Lesson 5: Muslin to Paper Pattern
    • Transfer your muslin to paper
    • Darts or Yoke
    • Pockets
    • Front Fly

Live Sessions: You do not need to watch the class live

  • Monday, September 20th at 4:00pm Eastern / 1:00pm Pacific
  • Tuesday, September 21st at 3:30pm Eastern / 12:30pm Pacific
  • Wednesday, September 22nd at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific
  • Thursday, September 23rd at 3:00pm Eastern / 12:00pm Pacific
  • Friday, September 24th at Noon Eastern / 9:00am Pacific

 

 

Enter to Win a Spot in the Pant Sloper Fitting Course

Click Here to Enter (I included the form below too) to win a spot in the Pant Sloper Fitting Course AND leave a comment below and let me know your biggest pant fitting issues.  You can also leave a comment on Facebook and Instagram for extra chances to win.  I will draw 1 random winner Monday, September 20th at NOON Eastern.  Good luck!

cheers,

 

 

 

Discount on Supplies Needed for the Pant Sloper Class

Get 10% OFF muslin fabric, tailors clapper, and sewing supplies at www.AngelaWolfPatterns.com
with coupon code AWPATTERNS

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Pant Sloper Fitting Class

Join the Pant Sloper Fitting Online Course which launches Monday, September 20th at 4:00pm Eastern / 1:oopm Pacific.

Learn how to fit your own sloper!

A sloper in general is a pattern that is used as a base and from this pattern you are able to design multiple styles. By fitting a sloper to your own body shape, you are guaranteed to have a well fitted outfit. In this class you will learn to fit a pant sloper, turn the sloper into a pattern, and tips for using this sloper as a guide to work with other pant patterns.

Episode 198: At Your Side Virtually! Create a thread catcher and pin cushion

Episode 198: At Your Side Virtually! Create a thread catcher and pin cushion

Episode 198 ~ At your side 🧵 Virtually! Create a Thread Catcher & Pin Cushion with Jerry Granata

Supply List & Instructions for Thread Catcher 

• Brother Stellaire XP2 or comparable machine to embroider and sew, or both
• Feet you will need: – Embroidery foot, J foot, Zipper foot
• 4 different fabrics – one for the pin cushion, one for the hinge, one for the inner bag and
one for the outer bag
• 1 – 18” piece of boning, or plastic shipping strap from a box. You could also use a one liter soda bottle cut to ½”x 18”
• Pacesetter tear-away stabilizer cut to 7”x 9”
• 1 ½ cups of crushed walnut
• 1 piece of 8 ½”x 11” paper…printer paper is fine
• Tape for paper
• Embroidery thread (your choice of color)
• Bobbin thread (white)
• Sewing thread (wind a bobbin with the same sewing thread). The color is your choice
• Embroidery needle size 75/11
• Scissors to trim threads
• Rotary cutter, ruler, and mat
• Heat-erasable pen
• Pins
• Iron, Ironing board

If you would like to download the supply list in PDF form in order to print click below:

Jerry Granata Supply list for Thread Catcher and Pin Cushion 

Instructions:

1) Cut the fabric as follows:

  • One piece 7”x 8” for pin cushion
  • One piece 4 ½”x 8” for hinge
  • One piece 9”x 16” for bag lining
  • One piece 10” x 17” for outer bag (you will embroidery this piece first then cut it down to 9”x16” at a later time.  If you choose not to embroider, cut a piece of fabric 9”x16” for the
    outer bag.

Printable Instruction in PDF Format

Jerry Granata DIY Instructions

Catch the Next Show …

Be sure to catch At Your Side Virtually! every Tuesday and Thursday at NOON Eastern and Behind the Scenes live on Facebook and YouTube every Wednesday at 1:30pm Eastern.  I will post the replays here on the blog too 🙂 

cheers,

 

 

 

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SHANNON FABRIC GIVEAWAY!

SHANNON FABRIC GIVEAWAY!

SHANNON FABRIC GIVEAWAY!

Are you looking for an amazingly SOFT fabric?!?  SHANNON FABRICS was a sponsor on It’s Sew Easy tv and continues to inspire us with gorgeous fabrics.  This new batch of fabric is called LUXE CUDDLE and the colors are so fun!  If you look closely these three colors have specs of silver and gold metallic.  My first thought is this fabric would make an AMAZING blanket and then my mind goes into garments.  A vest or a jacket made with the cuddle and sleeves of knit.  I will keep you posted on what I make, but in the meantime would you like to win a piece of this fabulous fabric?

Leave a Comment for a Chance to Win 1 Yard of Fabric

If you would like to win 1 yard of this luxurious fabric, leave a comment below letting me know if you want to win the lavender, pink, or white.

You can also leave a comment on Facebook and Instagram for extra chances to win – watch for the photo above on Facebook and Instagram and that’s where you leave a comment.   I will draw 1 random winner for each color Wednesday, September 1st at 1:30pm Eastern on my usual Behind the Scenes show.  Good luck!

cheers,

Below is one of my episode’s of It’s Sew Easy which includes tips for sewing lace fabric and a tutorial on starting with the Ruched-T and designing your own Lacy style top!

 

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Behind the scenes Houston quilt festival

Behind the scenes Houston quilt festival

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