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Wildflower Fox Design ID: WF0000105KIT Let It Snow Wildflower Fox Design ID: WF0000105KIT Let it Snow Kit Includes: You will Need: • One full skein of DMC Floss • Iron • One John James size 5 needle • Ironing-board or equivalent • One square of fusible embroidery • Sharp Scissors stabilizer • One 100% Cotton 8x8 square with printed pattern • Embroidery hoop (only in HCDL Take & Create kit) Thank you for choosing a Wildflower Fox design. This guide will walk you through allofthe steps and techniques used to stitch this pattern. The information in this guide is merely a suggestion so please feel free to make changes to colors, stitches or techniques to make it your own. There is no right or wrong way to stitch this pattern, so relax and have fun! Copyright, 2019 Wildflower Fox. Shopwildflowerfox.com / @wildflowerfoxink / #wildflowerfoxemb Tips and Tricks • Have good lighting. Good lighting is essential when you are stitching. It helps you see the pattern on the fabric, your stitches & eases the stress on your eyes. • Keep your hands clean and avoid eating when you are stitching. Clean hands will help keep your work from looking dingy. • Sometimes you will need both hands to do a stitch, and some stitches just take more practice to master. If you can, sit at a table when you are first getting started. That way you can set the hoop on the table and have both hands free to manipulate the stitch. With practice you will learn to use the hand holding the hoop to assist with stitches without putting the hoop down. • Try to keep your stitches a uniform size on straight sections. On curved sections start shortening your stitches before you get to the curve and this will help blend it together. • Pull each stitch with the same amount of tension but don’t overdo it. Too much tension will pucker your fabric. Not enough tension will leave your stitches looking sloppy. • If your thread gets twisted while you’re stitching, drop the threaded needle and let it hang freely until it unwinds. • Always start and stop each section of embroidery, and avoid running your thread across the back from one section to another. Extra runs of thread can show through to the front of the fabric so avoiding them keeps your embroidery looking cleaner. • Trim excess thread and waste knots as you go. This will help avoid getting tangles on the back. • If you make an error, simply un-thread the needle and pick out the unwanted stitches. • If you are unable to pick the stitches out you will need to use an embroidery scissors and cut any unwanted stitches out. Using a pair of tweezers is helpful for getting the stitches out of the fabric. You can also use a little bit of tape to pick up any fuzzys left behind. • Remove the fabric from the hoop when you are not stitching. This helps prevent hoop marks in the fabric. Also remove your needle from the thread and put it in a safe place. Loose needles are dangerous to children, pets and bare feet. • To iron a finished project, place a soft towel down on the ironing board first. Placethe finished piece face down, this keeps the stitches from being crushed. Thenplacea pressing cloth or clean flour-sack dish towel over the back to protect the fabric. Mist lightly with water if needed and always iron the back side of an embroidered piece. Embroidery Stabilizer - This kit includes one square of fusible stabilizer. Using a stabilizer is not required when doing hand embroidery, but a stabilizer will firm the fabric and improve stitch quality. For best results a stabilizer is recommended with this fabric. Fuse the stabilizer to the fabric with an iron before you begin stitching. To ensure your iron stays clean you can put a pressing cloth or old flour-sack dish towel over the top of the stabilizer before pressing. (Pressing cloth not shown) • Place your fabric face down on a flat heat-safe surface (ironing board or equivalent). • Press lightly with a hot dry (no steam) iron to remove any creases. • Next center the stabilizer SHINY SIDE DOWN over your fabric. The shiny side is adhesive and must be in contact with the back of the fabric. • Using a dry iron on its hottest setting press the stabilizer to the fabric. • Starting in the center hold the iron on each section for 8-10 seconds, working your way outward. • Be sure to get the edges. Getting started in 3 easy steps 1. Hoop your fabric ▪ Open the adjusting screw on the hoop almost all the way. ▪ Separate the hoop into two rings. ▪ Lay the inner ring on a hard surface. ▪ Place the printed fabric print side up on top of the inner ring and center it as best you can. ▪ Slide the adjustable ring over top of the fabric. ▪ The fabric should now be sandwiched between the two rings. ▪ Tighten the adjustment screw about halfway. ▪ You want the fabric tight like a drum. So begin gently pulling the fabric from the back side, all the way around. ▪ You want the tension on the fabric to be the same all the way around so your pattern is not distorted. Use the outer circle on the printed pattern to gauge this. If it is round then your tension is good. If it is egg or oval shaped your fabric has been pulled more in one direction than the other. ▪ When your fabric is where you want it and taut in the hoop, finish tightening the adjusting ring. ▪ If your fabric starts to slip after you begin stitching, adjust it again and tighten the adjustment screw more. 2. Prepare your Floss ▪ From the numbered end of the skein pull about 12 - 15 inches of floss from the skein and cut it. A ruler is not needed for this, about an arms length of floss works well. Shorter lengths of floss are easier to handle and less likely to twist andknot. ▪ This floss is 6 strands twisted together. Gently separate the floss into 3 sectionsof2 strands. The floss may start to twist around itself so go slowly until you get thehangof it. Here again shorter lengths of floss help. 3. Threading Your Needle. To do this cut a clean end of thread and pinch it between your thumb and forefinger, leaving only a tiny bit of thread exposed. Then push the eye of the needle on to the thread. The needle eye should slip between your thumb and forefinger slightly. If you have trouble threading your needle, you can try enclosing the thread ends into a small piece of tape. Then cut the tape to a point and thread the needle by pulling the tape through the eye. Trim the tape from the end of the thread and discard. Pull three or four inches of floss through the needle. You will have one very long tail offloss and one short tail of floss. Your First Stitches Starting: There are a number of ways to secure thread when you begin stitching. For this pattern a simple knot works well. Tie a knot or a double knot at the long end of your thread before making your first stitch. Be careful when stitching close to this knot so youdon’t catch it with your needle. Ending: On the back side of the fabric you can either wrap your thread around a previous stitch and tie a knot, or you can weave a length of thread under several previous stitches. Stitch Guide Back Stitch Start on the back side of the fabric and bring your needle up through 2 6 the fabric at 1 then down through at 2. Bring your needle up through 4 at 3 and back down at 4 in the same hole as 1. Each stitch is made by moving forward on the back side then back to the previous stitch on top. 1 3 5 Fly Stitch 1 Start on the back side of the fabric and bring your needle up through 2 the fabric at 1 then down through at 2, leaving a loop. Come up at 3 1 3 4 with the needle over the loop, pull the thread to a V shape. Go down 2 at 4 to anchor the V shape. 3 4 5 Note: This stitch requires two hands to complete. French Knot 2 Start on the back side of the fabric, bring your needle up through the fabric at 1. Keeping the needle point close to the fabric at 1, wrap the thread around the needle 2 or 3 times. With the needle point resting on 2 pull the thread taut and down to the needle point. Then bring 1 the needle down in 2 right next to 1 but not in the same hole. Eyelet or Star Stitch Start on the back side of the fabric and bring your needle up through the fabric at 1 then down through at 2. Bring your needle up through at 3 and back down at 4 in the same hole as 2. Work your way 2 & 4 around the star shape always starting your stitch on the outside and ending it in the middle of the star. 3 1 Smyrna Cross Stitch The Smyrna Cross Stitch looks similar to the Eyelet Stitch but instead 3 of having a hole in the center the thread goes all the way across 2 making an x over a +. Start on the back side of the fabric and bring your needle up through the fabric at 1 then down through at 2. Bring your needle up through at 3 and back down at 4.
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