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With Christmas just around the corner why not turn your thoughts to some seasonal makes. This pretty little poinsettia candle mat could be the ideal gift. Join me for a short workshop where we will cover layered raw edge appliqué using a Teflon sheet to aid the process, a quick and easy way to free machine the design on, add some decorative metallic finishes and finish with a neat little beaded edge. Lots of fun and lots of tips along the way.
Available until 31 December 2021.
You will learn:
1) Layered raw edge appliqué
2) Easy machine appliqué techniques
3) Metallic foil finishes
4) Beaded edge stitch
Materials
Materials can be purchased from suppliers of the Beyond FOQ Shopping Hub, available here: www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/beyond-foq-shopping-hub/
You will need:
- Pattern – available to download from www.patarchibald.com for a nominal charge of £1.
- One 9” square of cream fabric
- One 6 ½” square of green fabric
- One 4” square of dark red fabric
- One 4” square of light red fabric
- One 9” square of Bondaweb or other similar fusible web with a paper backing
- Small amount of seed beads
- Toning machine threads
- Sewing machine fitted with a new needle and neutral bobbin thread
- Usual sewing kit – scissors, pins, hand-sewing needle that will fit through your beads, pencil, notepad
- Iron, ironing pad,
- Baking parchment or Teflon Sheet or Fusamat
- Optional – One pack of glue granules and metallic foils and pressure sensitive glue – all available from www.patarchibald.com
Pretty Little Poinsettia
By Pat Archibald
Sponsored by:
With Christmas just around the corner why not turn your thoughts to some seasonal makes. This pretty little poinsettia candle mat could be the ideal gift. Join me for a short workshop where we will cover layered raw edge appliqué using a Teflon sheet to aid the process, a quick and easy way to free machine the design on, add some decorative metallic finishes and finish with a neat little beaded edge. Lots of fun and lots of tips along the way.
What you will learn:
1) Layered raw edge appliqué
2) Easy machine appliqué techniques
3) Metallic foil finishes
4) Beaded edge stitch
You will need:
- Pattern – available to download from www.patarchibald.com for a nominal charge of £1.
- One 9” square of cream fabric
- One 6 ½” square of green fabric
- One 4” square of dark red fabric
- One 4” square of light red fabric
- One 9” square of Bondaweb or other similar fusible web with a paper backing
- Small amount of seed beads
- Toning machine threads
- Sewing machine fitted with a new needle and neutral bobbin thread
- Usual sewing kit – scissors, pins, hand-sewing needle that will fit through your beads, pencil, notepad
- Iron, ironing pad,
- Baking parchment or Teflon Sheet or Fusamat
- Optional – One pack of glue granules and metallic foils and pressure sensitive glue – all available from www.patarchibald.com
Advance preparation
Please download the pattern from the shop on www.patarchibald.com (for a nominal charge of £1) and trace the elements on it onto the paper side of your fusible web.
About the tutor
Pat is a textile artist and teacher who travels the world to teach and to find inspiration for her art quilts and workshops. Her quiet manner and clear instructions make her workshops popular with students who gain new knowledge and ideas to put into their own work. Workshops with Pat will give you an insight into the techniques she uses to create her award-winning art quilts.
Instagram: @patarchibald1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Pat-Archibald-132301903606506/
Website: www.patarchibald.com
