Trick or Treat Garden Flag by Kelly Nagel

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1 Trick or Treat Garden Flag by Kelly Nagel

2 Project Overview Show your Spooky Halloween Spirit with this fun and easy garden flag! By using Sulky Puffy Foam and Glowy Thread, show you are ready day or night for those little ghouls and gals to come for treats on October 31st. Fabric: 14 square of black fabric Two 2 strips WOF of border fabric 20 square of backing fabric Scraps of black fabric for hanging tabs Thread: Sulky Glowy Thread Orange and White Black Sulky Bobbin Thread or Prewound Bobbin Sulky PolyDeco Thread Black Supplies: 20 square of black batting One piece of Sulky White Puffy Foam KK 2000 Temporary Spray Adhesive Chalk marker or Sulky Stick n Stitch (for spider web design) Sulky Totally Stable - Black Embroidery machine Sewers Aid (optional) Template and Design Downloads: Trick or Treat Machine Embroidery Design Spider Web template 2

3 Instructions Step 1 Download the Trick or Treat design and load it into your machine. Step 2 Prepare the black center square of fabric by ironing Totally Stable onto the back of the fabric and hooping. Step 3 Spray the front of the fabric with KK 2000 and place the white Puffy Foam on top. Step 4 Wind a bobbin with black bobbin thread and insert in the machine. Thread the top with the Orange Glowy Thread. Helpful Hint Be sure to use a new needle and you may want to use some thread lubricant, like Sewers Aid on the needle. 3

4 Instructions - continued Step 5 Stitch out the design. 4

5 Instructions - continued Step 6 Unhoop. Pull off the excess Puffy Foam and Totally Stable on the back. You may want to use a lint roller to get any extra pieces and lint off the black. 5

6 Instructions - continued Step 7 Iron and square up center to 12-½ square. Step 8 Add the 2 borders to all 4 sides using a ¼ seam allowance. Note: Do not put the iron down on the puffy foam or it will flatten. You can hover over it and use steam if needed. Step 9 Make a quilt sandwich with the front fabric right side up, batting and backing fabric wrong side up, spray basting the three layers together with KK

7 Quilting the Project You can quilt this project however you want. I chose to free hand a spider web in each corner in Glowy thread. Here is how to do it free hand. Step 1 Draw 3 white lines from the corner with a chalk pencil (see picture). Step 2 Stitch over these three white lines using Sulky Glowy thread in white. Helpful Hint If you want the glow effect to be stronger, use the triple straight stitch decorative stitch on your machine. 7

8 Quilting the Project - continued Step 3 Starting from the edge even with the top of the first line (see pic), stitch in a slight curve and connect to each line. Step 4 After stitching the first line all the way across, use the edge of your foot as a guide and stitch the next line in the same manner. Step 5 Continue to add stitching until you have the whole web filled in. Step 6 Repeat this in all four corners. 8

9 Quilting the Project - continued Step 7 Switch from the Glowy Thread to Sulky PolyDeco in black and echo quilt around the words Trick or Treat out to the spiderweb quilting. Step 8 Quilt as desired in the border. I quilted straight lines. 9

10 Instructions - continued Another Quilting Option: If you don t want to quilt the spiderwebs free-hand, we have included a pattern. Print the web pattern on a piece of Sulky Stick n Stitch, cut apart, and place the webs in the four corners. Stitch over the lines. When you are finished with all your quilting, either rinse the Stick n Stitch off in the sink or put the quilt in the washing machine on the gentle cycle to wash it away. Download Spider Web Pattern 10

11 Finishing Up For Hanging Tabs: 1. Cut 2 pieces of black fabric 5 x 2-¼. 2. Turn the 5 sides under ¼, press and topstitch them down. 3. Fold the strip in half and attach them to the top of the quilt about 2 in from each edge when you are attaching the binding. 4. Bind the quilt in your favorite method. 5. Enjoy your new Trick or Treat garden flag! More Great Fun! - The Crazy Wavy Patchwork and Spider TAKE A LOOK» 11