Embroidered Family Wall Art

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1 Embroidered Family Wall Art With Letter It! and Monogram It! from Amazing Designs, it s easy to create an embroidered piece of wall art whether for you or someone else, the many font styles, size options, thread colors; positioning placement choices allow you to combine letters and monograms so that you can customize your work of art. Skill Level: Beginner Created by: Diane Kron, Software and Embroidery Project Manager Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 1 of 6

2 Supplies: Baby Lock Destiny sewing and embroidery machine Monogram It! from Amazing Designs Letter It! from Amazing Designs 1 yard off white canvas fabric 1 yard green chevron decorative fabric 16 x 20 framed canvas Stabilize It! Tear-Away Stabilizer med wt. from Amazing Designs Madeira embroidery threads (assorted colors) Staple gun & staples Instructions: 1. Open the Amazing Designs App on your desktop and follow the next set of steps: To place the hoop on the workspace, select the Tool tab and click on Select Hoop. Select the 300mm x 200mm hoop. Click on the Monogram It! tab on the top toolbar. Use the following illustration for name placement, font styles, and font sizes. Names will vary based on the names in your family. This illustration is for the first hooping. Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 2 of 6

3 Select the Monogram Maker icon and click on the workspace to open the properties. Select 1-Letter Monogram. Under the font field select the Oxford Applique font. Type in the first letter of your last name and click OK. Place the letter at the bottom center of the hoop (as shown in the illustration above). Change the color on the letter by clicking on the desired color chip from the color bar. When the dialog opens, select Color 3. To add the names around the monogram, click on the Letter It tab. Click on the Text icon. Click anywhere on the workspace to open the Properties field. Add the name, select a font and click OK. Place the letter inside the hoop where it will fit properly. Resize the name if needed. Repeat for additional names to fill in around the Monogramed single letter, using different fonts, sizes and colors for each. Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 3 of 6

4 2. To create the bottom half of the design, follow the next set of steps: Place the 360mm x 360mm hoop on the workspace. Activate the Multineedle field then select the hoop. Select the first half of the design by left clicking and drawing a selection box around that portion of the design. Move the design to the top of the hoop. Add two more lines of names. Refer to the illustration below for placement. A decoration will be added below the names. To add the deocoration, click on the Monogram tab; select the Decorations icon. Select the decoration shown below. Resize the design to fit under the lettering. Change the colors on the decoration to coordinate with the colors of the names. Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 4 of 6

5 Adjust the position, size and color of the names to fit with the same spacing as used in the first section. 3. After the entire design is complet, follow the next set of steps to save the design to two different files with separate names: Select the lower half of the design (as shown in the above illustration). Right click and from the list select Cut. Open a New page and right click and select Paste. Place the 300mm x 200mm hoop on the workspace. Center the design in the hoop. Click on File Save As, a working file format (blf), and then save as the format that your machine will read. Give the design a name. Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 5 of 6

6 Click on the first page to open the first design. Re-center the design in the hoop. Click on File Save As, a working file format (blf), and then save as the format that your machine will read. Give this design a different name. Click on Print to print a template of each the design sections. 4. Cut a section from the canvas fabric that measure 21 x Hoop the Stabilize It! Tear-Away stabilizer. Add the canvas section so that the embroidery is placed near the top of the fabric and centered from side to side. 6. Set up the machine for embroidery. Retrieve the top design. Embroider the design, changing thread colors as desired. Remove the embroidery from the hoop. 7. Pin the template for the bottom half of the design below the first embroidered design. Re-hoop the stabilizer and the embroidered canvas section, centering the section so that the template is centered in the hoop. Re-position the design so that the needle is centered directly over the cross-marks on the template. Remove the template. Embroider the design. 8. At the cutting board, trim the embroidered section to 12¾ x 13½. Set aside. 9. From the chevron fabric, cut two 4 wide sections across the width of the fabric for the side sashing sections. Cut two 6 x 13½ sections for the top and bottom sashing. 10. Piece the top and bottom sashing sections to the top and bottom edges of the embroidered section. Press the seam toward the chevron fabric. Trim as needed. 11. Piece the two side sections to the embroidered section and press toward the chevron fabric. 12. Press the section well. Trim to square up the corners. 13. Center the embroidered section to the front of the 16 x 20 framed canvas section. Use the staple gun to secure the embroidered section pulling it taut to the back of the framed canvas section. For other exciting projects like this one visit our website at Amazing Designs Project: Embroidered Family Wall Art Page 6 of 6