Created by: Marie Stevens, Educational Coordinator, Janome America
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Level: Advanced
Marie Stevens, known to many as The Quarterly Quilter from Janome Digest, is Janome America's Heirloom specialist. Her quilts are popular with both quilting and heirloom enthusiasts, and we recently asked her to create another quilt for Janome Digest. A Touch of Silk Heirloom Quilt is featured in the Winter Issue #26. A complete list of supplies for the entire quilt is shown along with instructions for the first two blocks: Hearts and Flowers and Stitchitize Heart. Notes on the final construction are also published along with Marie's hints and tips. We have listed the supplies required for this individual block below. You can make a quilt of one block or re-create the entire quilt.
Janome Supplies Required:
- Memory Craft 11000, 10001, 10000, 9700, 9500
- PC Design Card #1013 (Lace Collection)
- Standard Hoop A
- Embroidery Foot P
- Custom Crafted Zig-Zag Foot
- Janome Embroidery thread (#213 Beige, #253 Ivory)
- Janome Bobbin thread
- Blue Tip needle 75/11
Fabric and Notions Required:
- One 17" silk dupioni square
- 1 yd. lace insertion
- Water-soluble stabilizer
- Lightweight tearaway stabilizer
- 16 pearl beads (4mm)
- Ecru cotton thread (50 wt.)
- Lace shaping board
- Air erasable fabric marker
Information:
Inside Information:
Lace Shaping
To do lace shaping, be sure to use a Cotton French Insertion Lace. This type of lace has a "header" on each side of the lace. A header on lace is similar to a selvage on fabrics. It consists of several strands of woven cotton to finish the edge. When you want to shape lace, you draw the shape you wish to cover with lace first. If it is a curve as in the instructions for this block, you will place the outside header of the lace on the drawn line.
To hold the lace in place, place a pin vertically every 1/2" on the edge of the lace on a lace shaping board. The opposite side of the lace will be loose. Pull out one of the threads in the header with a pin on one end of the lace. Pull gently on the thread and it will pull the curve in place.
As you shape the lace along the drawn shape try to miter or overlap the corners to hold them in place. Press the lace, then gently lift it from the board, pinning to the fabric as you go. |
- Set up the Memory Craft for Ordinary sewing.
- Attach the Custom Crafted Zig-Zag Foot.
- Thread the needle with Janome Embroidery thread #213 (Beige) and thread the needle with Janome Bobbin thread.
- Select Zigzag stitch #8 (MC9500 stitch #6). Adjust the width to 2.5 and the length to 1.0
- Download the "Butterflies Block" template above.
- Mark the center of the fabric square with the template.
- Shape the lace over the marked lines.
- Stitch over both sides of the lace, with the left swing of the needle sewing over the lace header and the right swing on the fabric.
- Press the block.
- Place two layers of tearaway stabilizer on the wrong side of the block.
- Press the Decorative Stitch tab. Select Decorative stitch #175 (MC9500 stitch #76).
- Sew over the previous stitching. Again the left swing of the needle will be just over the lace header and the right swing almost 1/4" on the fabric.
- Set up the Memory Craft for Professional-Style Embroidery.
- Insert PC Design Card #1013 (Lace Collection) into the machine.
- Press the Embroidery Mode key.
- Press the PC Card tab. Select Design #4.
- Thread the needle with the ecru cotton thread.
Hint: Make sure there is a full bobbin in the machine.
- Place water-soluble stabilizer in the Standard Hoop "A".
- Sew the design eight times.
Hint: If desired, you can sew two designs in one hoop by rotating the design in the Edit screen, press Copy and position the designs to face one another.
- Clip the threads. Remove the water-soluble stabilizer.
- Spray starch and press each Heart
- Set up the Memory Craft for Ordinary sewing.
- Attach the Custom Crafted Zig-zag Foot.
- Thread the needle with Janome Embroidery thread #153 (Ivory).
- Select Zigzag stitch #8 (MC9500 stitch #6). Adjust the width to 4.0 and the length to 0.5.
- Position the lace hearts with points together to form each butterfly.
- Stitch hearts together.
- Position the lace butterflies over the points of the lace. Pin in place.
- Press the Ordinary sewing key.
- Press the Decorative Stitch tab.
- Press the Combination key.
- Select Hemstitch #96 (MC9500 Stitch #66).
- Select the Lock Stitch (L.S.) to combine.
- Stitch over every 3rd loop around the lace hearts and one in the center.
- Press the block.
- Sew four pearl across the center of each butterfly.
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