Directions for sewing out designs are included separately on CDs and download files and can be opened and printed from Microsoft Word or WordPad which is included in all Windows applications.

Directions below are for rectangle only. Use in project of choice or directly on other types of projects.

Designs can be combined to make any sized project. Great for a gardening  or cook apron, tote bag, wall hanging, quilt, album or cookbook cover, napkins, placemats, scrapbooking (leave the center fabric out of sunflower and replace with photo,) cards, clothing from jackets and vests to a little girl's dress.

You'll need a piece of blue fabric for the sky.

Select ribbon and green fabric for the leaves to compliment each other. Make sure you have embroidery thread to match. I chose a grosgrain ribbon in dark green. You need only small pieces of fabric for the leaves, but I decided to do sashing for the quilt as well.

I wanted to add texture to my rectangle which would form the center of my quilt. So, for the bottom fabric I looked for an upholstery fabric that was light weight, washable and would fray well to form fringe. Your rectangle bottom can be finished off, if preferred

Check your fabric stash for scraps of fabrics for your angels dresses, bottom of dresses and sleeves and for the snail. Look for colors you like and that will compliment colors used in your project. Small prints placed close together work best for applique.

Make sure you have embroidery and regular thread to compliment your fabric choices.

5/8" wide for large & 1/2" wide for small sunflower 

Several Leaf pieces about 1/8 Yard, if you are purchasing

Angel Dresses

Angels Dresses Bottoms & Sleeves

Snail

Stabilizer for all embroidery designs

Embroidery adhesive spray

You will get a nicer finished zigzag seam if you use stabilizer under the fabric and ribbon.

1. Fold your blue piece of fabric in half vertically and iron in a light crease.

2. Pin your ribbon centered over the crease and do a tiny zigzag stitch down both sides. I use a 2.0 length and 1.5 width. For a nicer finish, use scraps of stabilizer under the seams.

 Large size is shown.

1. Print templates from your software to help you with all design placement.

2. Use disappearing ink and mark a dot for the center placement of the Sunflower design. 

You can use the center pressed crease for vertical alignment. Use the template by making a hole in the center point, and, with disappearing ink. mark the center of the design on the fabric.

My sunflower center was 8 1/2" from the fabric top.

1. The point you marked will be where the needle starts. If the needle is directly over that center point, you will have correct center placement.

Use your template to align when you hoop as you would for any design you embroider.

All applique designs are basically sewn out with the same method.

2. The flower center applique placement line sews first showing you where to lay your applique fabric.

3. Take your fabric piece and place over the line so the line does not show. Embroidery adhesive spray used on the wrong side of the fabric works well to hold the fabric in place.

4. Stitch the tack down line and trim very close to the stitching. You can remove the hoop to help, if necessary. Return hoop to the machine

5. Then finish embroidering according to directions. In this design, the flower petals are embroidered and then the outline sews.

Remove stabilizer carefully after stitching.

1. I duplicated the bees in my software, rotated them and placed them together, then sewed them out in one hooping. Many machines now allow you to do this on the machine's screen without using your software, however, you would not have a template, if you chose to do it this way.

Remember, if you do this, the design will have to be rotated in the hoop so you would hoop the design sideways. Keep that in mind when hooping.

2. Again, use the template you printed out from your software for design placement and hoop.

3. Stitch according to thread color sequence in your directions.

1. Using your template, decide where you want to place your leaves. They can be higher or lower than mine were placed.

2. Follow directions to applique leaves in place. This goes very quickly.

1. Using template, position design and hoop. Stitch out  following directions.

The angel comes sitting on the leaf as shown or sitting without the leaf (Comfy Seat design.)

You could do only leaves and leave the angel out or have her sitting on the ground as desired.

On smaller rectangles or projects, you can use only one row of leaves or, for longer projects, add another row. 

This would make a great growing chart for children. Use a tape measure for the stem.

These designs can be combined to give you many options and ways to use them.

Use your templates, follow directions and add either design in any order.

Here you could substitute or add the Seed Package design or, again, arrange as desired.

Leave enough room at the bottom to add the bottom piece.

1. Lay your bottom piece of fabric across the bottom of your completed blue piece so the top of the fabric is about an inch above the bottom of the snail.

2. Draw a line with disappearing ink the way you want to stitch your sewing line across the bottom.

Make sure the drawn line runs right under your snail.

3. Pin in place, ready to sew.

Sew under drawn line. Triple stitch twice. Trim the top edge about 5/8" from stitching.

1. Align side of sewing machine foot along the bottom side of drawn line.

Do not sew ON the line, but a foot's width under it.

Triple stitch across fabric and stitch again right next to the first sewing line. Trim top edge about 5/8 from stitching.

1.Pull the cross threads out of fabric. Some threads will pull completely out, but you will also have long pieces running down to the stitching lines.

Upholstery fabric works wonderfully for this, but any fabric that frays well will do.

2. Simply snip off attached pieces even with other fringe.

You can also do a nice finished edge and stitch it on or leave off the bottom completely for an apron or tote, any project not needing the bottom piece.

1. Turn fabric over.

2. Trim excess blue fabric on bottom about 5/8" away from stitching.

Trim to desired size. I positioned my sunflower off-center. Always make your rectangle larger than your intended finished size to allow for trimming.

Seed Package design is all embroidery