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We have the most exciting educational tape for you that we've ever had and I just want
to go over a little bit about what is going to be on this tape.
First of all, we have the most wonderful brand new technique for Madeira applique and the
reason it's so wonderful and so brand new is because it is so easy.
Let me just share with you what Madeira applique looks like.
This is Madeira applique.
When you have this pink piece that comes around on this cute little bolero dress, well it's
kind of a fake bolero dress, and then the little sleeves, this pink is a technique developed
by my friend Patty Jo Larson that we're going to share with you in a few minutes that you
will love.
Another technique we're going to share today is picture transfer and a little bit of silk
ribbon embroidery by machine.
Now there are only three techniques for lace shaping, flip-flopping, curving, and mitering,
and we have a little bit of a new twist for you.
We're going to show you a tied bow, we're going to show you Celtic lace shaping, and
we're going to show you a miter spaced in between these two.
Now we have a quick shadow applique.
You know I really like the word quick and easy, so everything today is going to be quick
and easy.
We also are going to share with you another time about how to do the shark's teeth.
People are really asking me, now Martha, I know a long time ago you taught us shark's
teeth, but I want to learn how to do that.
So we're going to go over shark's teeth, and then one of our most beloved techniques of
all times, Australian windowpane.
Now don't forget, we're going to bring you a tape so you will enjoy making all of these
techniques the quick and the easy way.
And once again, thank you for subscribing to So Beautiful Magazine.
This is the easiest Madeira applique technique that I've ever seen.
And once again, I'd like to thank my very dear friend Patty Jo Larson for developing
it.
What is Madeira applique?
Let me show you an example.
This is a Madeira applique hem that is worn by little Cecil Elizabeth, our brand new doll.
This is a Madeira applique pillow with the Madeira around the edge of the pillow.
I'm going to show you how to do all of these different variations.
Here is another Madeira applique pillow with the Madeira applique on the bottom.
I really love collars.
So let me share with you this pretty Madeira applique collar with the beautiful yellow
border around it.
I've got a sample I'm going to show you exactly how to do a collar.
Here is another beautiful Madeira applique collar.
And by the way, this one is out of our book, Madeira applique.
This is one of the patterns out of our book.
Now we have a brand new book called Heirloom Sewing for Jack and Jill, which is going to
be our new hardcover book, you know, one of those big fat kind.
This pattern, as well as the technique for Madeira applique ballera.
And look at the little sleeve, how cute, with the regular puff sleeve underneath it and
Madeira applique.
And by the way, Sue Pennington designed this particular little dress.
This is a beautiful Madeira applique.
This is also the pattern out of our book called Madeira applique.
And this embroidery was designed by Wendy Shane, another one of our so beautiful specialists.
And here is the Madeira applique.
Now come on over to the boards with me and I'm going to show you the neatest trick on
how to do easy, and this is a brand new technique, easy Madeira applique.
Okay, first of all, I'm going to show you how to do a hem on a skirt.
Here is my total hem length.
First I fold it in half.
Stick a little pin up here.
I fold it in half.
Let me get my little shish kebab stick so you can see better.
I have traced off the scallops exactly the way they're going to be.
Now using the wash away water soluble basting thread in the needle, in other words, thread
it through the top of the machine and regular, just regular sewing thread in the bobbin,
I'm going to stitch very, very tiny, at least no bigger than a 1.5 stitch length, really
stitch accurately right along here.
Now notice this is simply half of a skirt.
So it's folded in half.
There's my fold.
Now after I have stitched, I come in here and trim the whole thing, trim, trim, trim.
Now you notice it's still just half a skirt and I have come along and clipped along there.
All of that has just been clipped so I can turn it right side out.
Now then I'm going to take this and I'm going to turn it right side out and as you know,
when you turn something right side out, it's always good to use a point turner.
So once again, I'm going to come in here and use a point turner.
This step has already been done.
It's been turned right side out, used a point turner to see how pretty it is.
Now then I'm going to give it a good spray starch and maybe sort of wet it, really spray
it and then I'm going to put a press cloth over it or just a piece of batiste will be
just fine for the press cloth and dry and press it with a dry iron until it is completely
dry, dry, dry.
I do not want any wet or any spray starch.
Then this is the magic right here and so much fun to demonstrate.
This has been pressed very, very dry after you really wet it with spray starch.
Then I'm going to grab it and pull it like this and it will just go pop, pop, pop, pop,
pop, pop, pop.
You know we use that water soluble basting thread, it will go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
Oh my goodness, looky here.
We have a perfect Madeira applique that has been folded down and you will see what happens
when I turn it over.
This way it's already folded down perfectly simple, simple, simple.
My next step is to, let me undo this one, sew it to the bottom of the skirt.
You see here's my white skirt and my pink Madeira applique.
Sew it to the bottom of the skirt and then flip it up all finished.
I didn't have to do any finger pressing anything and then I'm going to use my Madeira applique
stitch to simply stitch it down and a wing needle if you like or a 100 regular needle
and also if you do not have a Madeira applique stitch you can just use a tiny, tiny zigzag
with a regular needle.
Now then, here we are, I've got it hemmed up, wasn't that easy by the way?
Now then I have my Madeira applique stitch all set so I'm going, you notice it goes back
and forward, back and forward, over to the left, those little fingers of the Madeira
applique stitch catch it.
Hang on just one minute, let me get this pin out.
Okay, I'm ready to sew again.
I'm going to do the Madeira applique stitch and just kind of follow around the curve.
Alright, now let me just show you here.
Okay, I have a wonderful Madeira applique stitch and I'll go all the way around the
edge of this skirt and it is absolutely finished.
Now then, I would like to share with you a collar.
This is what we're going to do next, is to do this little Madeira applique collar.
Okay, come on over to the boards.
This is fun.
Now, if you want to do some machine embroidery on this little center piece you can do that.
Let me show you how to do an oval first of all.
Now if I wanted embroidery it would be right here, I don't have any embroidery on here,
I'm going to use a water soluble stabilizer, stitch around the water, excuse me, trace
around the water soluble stabilizer.
Then once again using a wash away water soluble basting thread, I'm going to stitch a straight
stitch very, very tiny all the way around here.
Then I'm going to trim away, as you can see I've trimmed away the outside, I'm going to
slit the water soluble stabilizer right here, I'm going to turn it right side out as I've
done here and now I have a little piece to do.
If I wanted to put it on the collar, let me just show you what happened here.
You see I could put it on the front of the collar and it would be really pretty if that
had a machine monogram on it or any other kind of design.
That's how you do a motif.
Now then, let's see exactly how you make one of these beautiful collars this easy, easy,
easy way.
First of all, once again I fold it in half, we're working in half when we do this particular
technique.
I'll trace off the outside of my collar and I will trace off the design.
Once again, using wash away water soluble basting thread in the top through your needle,
I will stitch on the inside of the design right around here using regular thread in
your bobbin and the wash away in your needle.
I'm going to stitch.
Now the next step, I will come in and cut away this inside piece.
I'll continue to trim around there and cut it away and then I'll turn it right side out.
I've obviously got to get the pretty side in.
Using the point turner, I'll turn it right side out.
Now this one has been turned right side out.
You can see that perfect inside there and my favorite part comes right now.
After you spray starch it, you've got to get the water on there and the spray starch to
wet and get that water soluble thread wet so it will come apart and you dry it, iron
it dry, dry, dry, dry.
And by the way, if you start trying to pop like this, pop it open and it won't pop, simply
go back and put a little more spray starch on the whole thing and dry it, dry it, dry
it with an iron.
Then you come in here and you just pop it apart.
Oh, this is so much fun, this is my favorite part.
You just pop it apart and look, a perfect collar has been folded in.
Just an absolutely perfect collar.
It's already turned under for you perfectly, so, so easy.
Now then how do you make that piece into a collar?
First of all, you put a square of your collar fabric right side of the green on wrong side
of the white and I'm going to then stitch all the way around.
I've got to stitch this outside of the collar so I stitch all the way around and then I
will come in here and trim, it's beginning to look like a collar, isn't it?
I came in here and trimmed it and then all I have left to do is to turn it right side
out.
Here's an example that's already been done.
I have turned it right side out, absolutely beautiful.
And then I'm going to go over here and do my Madeira applique stitch to hold it in place.
And by the way, if you do not have a Madeira applique stitch, I've used a wing needle and
a Madeira applique stitch, you can just do a tiny little zigzag.
Now I think this is one of the neatest tricks that we have done a long time in heirloom
sewing.
Next, I'm going to share with you how to do a picture transfer to make wonderful things
for your home and some silk ribbon embroidery by machine.
This is so much fun.
I have my dear friend Louise Baird here who is going to show you how to do picture transfer
as well as silk ribbon embroidery by machine and they're really great combined.
This is a pillow where we've done picture transfer and silk ribbon by machine.
Actually, this was some of my Victorian valentines which I really like to use Victorian valentines.
But let me just share with you that you do not have to use Victorian valentines.
You may want to use a family photograph.
This is Louise and her four adorable sisters.
And you could do the photo transfer and the silk ribbon embroidery on a family photo also.
This particular little board has some really pretty Christmas ornaments or little wall
pictures, pictures for your wall that has the silk ribbon embroidery on them.
I think that's quite pretty.
This is silk ribbon by machine, the easy way.
Aren't those pretty?
And then this one is another one of my Victorian valentines which has the silk ribbon embroidery
by machine around it.
Now Louise, I'm just going to turn this over to you.
Thank you, Martha.
First of all, you do have to get your transfer ready.
And what we did or what I did on this valentine here was to scan it with my computer and I
enlarged it so that it will be a bigger picture.
After I enlarged it, then I used one of my computer programs to take out all of the extra
flowers and things that I didn't want in it so that I can add the silk ribbon to it
later.
Once you have it as you want it to be transferred, then you do have to do a mirror image.
And you can see that this is a mirror image of the original one.
Then we need to put it onto the transfer paper.
And I used Martha's heirloom transfer paper that comes six to a package.
And I actually, because I did not have a laser color printer, I did have to take it to a
photocopy place to get it transferred for me.
After it's transferred onto the transfer paper, you place it face down on top of your
fabric and iron it with a hot, dry iron.
And while it's still hot, you need to peel your paper off.
And you end up with your transfer on your fabric.
And I usually, when I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with it, I usually make a
bigger piece than what I ordinarily would.
So this is a relatively large piece of fabric right here.
Okay, now I'm going to show you about the silk ribbon.
I don't have a transfer to do the silk ribbon on.
But with the transfer, you do need, I'm sorry, with the silk ribbon, you do need to put it
in a hoop because it is a free motion technique.
I also like to use the Sulky Soft and Sheer Permanent Stabilizer to place it underneath
the fabric or underneath the transfer because it helps to maintain the size and the shape
without any puckering.
To keep everything in place, I usually use a temporary spray adhesive like the Sulky
KK2000 to glue everything together.
And then I place it in a hoop.
Here I've got my fabric in the hoop, and you can see that the Soft and Sheer is underneath.
And I'm going to use invisible thread.
The invisible thread in the needle and in the bobbin, if you wanted to, will help the
stitches not to be seen.
The first thing that I'll show is how to do a stem stitch and a lazy daisy.
Now I've already pulled up my thread and tied on, and I set the machine up for a straight
stitch in free motion.
And by doing that, I dropped the feed dogs, and I put a straight stitch on my machine,
and I also took the foot off completely.
On this machine, it can come off all the way, so you do have a lot of room to work with.
The tension is usually maybe slightly loosened with it.
To do the stem stitch, I'm going to take a length of ribbon, and I did use, on all
of my samples, I'm going to use the seven millimeter ribbon, just because it's a lot
easier for you to see what I'm going to be doing.
But all of the size ribbons can be used, the two, the four, and the seven millimeter ribbons
can be used.
To begin a stem stitch, I'm going to fold the ribbon behind the needle, and just hold
it lightly, and take one stitch over and get behind the needle, and that will kind of attach
it.
On another stitch, I'm going to put the needle down, and take a few stitches forward, and
I'm going to twist it in front of the needle, and just hold it loosely.
It's not held tightly.
And on this, I like to, if you hold it loose, you can get a real fluffy stem.
If you wanted a narrower stem, then using a smaller ribbon, or a tighter stitch, like
I'm going to do a couple now, holding it really tight, and it'll make a much smaller stitch.
Now, if your machine has a needle down button, you can use the needle down button, which
will help it to, will keep the needle down in the fabric.
You can see how that makes a much smaller stem stitch.
It looks like two different sizes of ribbons.
Okay, now to do a lazy daisy, like in a leaf or a flower, instead of twisting it, what
I'm going to do is move my ribbon out of the way, and take several stitches off to the
side, where my leaf or petal would be.
I'm going to fold the ribbon behind the needle loosely, take one stitch back, and one stitch
forward, and then come back into the stem, or the center of the flower.
And then now I'll cross it, and you've got a stem there, or rather a leaf or a petal.
And then you would just do a couple more, part of the stem.
And then to do another leaf, I'm going to come off to the side, fold it, take a stitch
over, back, come back to the center, and then fold it again.
Okay, and that's your lazy daisy leaf.
Now another thing that you can do with a, for a flower, not just a lazy daisy, you can
take a flower and make a loop stitch.
I said a loop stitch, my tongue got tied.
I'm going to stitch it down to attach it, and clip really close, and then Martha's essential
tool for stitching in French sewing is a shish kebab stick.
I use the shish kebab stick to make a little loop, hold, and attach it, and I kind of make
it like that, and then just turn the hoop a little bit, whoa, and make another loop.
Okay, and so you can make as many loops as you want.
And to help me get my loops the same size, I usually will make a loop and then stick
my shish kebab stick in a loop that's already completed, and that will help me to make them
the same size.
Yeah, you do need to keep your fingers out of the way.
Okay, another type of flower is to do a lazy daisy stitch with a little French knot on
the end.
So I'm going to just attach the ribbon down, clip it, and this time when I make that lazy
daisy stitch, I'm going to come out to the side, and this time wrap the ribbon around
the needle a couple of times, hold it down, I'm going to take one stitch back, and then
come forward, and attach it again, and you want to keep it really close.
And so you've got a lazy daisy with a little French knot at the end.
That is so pretty.
So you do lazy daisy, the loop stitch, and the stem stitch.
Louise, I tend to wonder if you couldn't do most anything beautifully with just what you've
shown us.
Yes.
Louise, thank you so very much.
And now then, I'm going to share with you how to do a tied bow.
I have a beautiful technique for you called tied bows.
This blouse is the Australian blouse, and it has a really beautiful tied bow with the
flip-flopping on both the bow and on the tails.
And also, let me just share with you, this is the Australian blouse book, that the pattern
comes for this blouse in size 6 to size 28.
Now then, let me share with you another really pretty bow on the front of this lady's dress.
You see the flip-flops up in the corner, and then the little bow ties hanging down.
Okay.
So here is how easy it is to make what I call a rabbit ear bow.
I take a nose yard of lace.
I'm going to hold it out like this, and I'm going to slip my hand down right here to make
bunny ears.
Now, watch real carefully.
I'm going to hold this bunny ear over here, and then I'll hold this bunny ear over here.
And I have a little poem for you.
Around the tree and into the hole, pull the ears, and you have a bow.
That's why it's called a bunny ear bow.
To straighten it up and make it even, you simply run your fingers through like this,
and then we have a bow.
Okay.
Here is the bow, and you're going to come over here and stick it on your lace-shaping
board.
And let me just flip-flop this side over here.
Okay.
I'll pull it up and stick a pin there.
Now, this is a little trick I want to share with you.
If I come down this way, well, that didn't flip-flop too well there, did it?
If it doesn't just flip-flop perfectly, all you do is come over to the center, turn your
lace over in the center, and look what happens.
A perfect flip-flop folds in every single time.
And then I will come out here and flip-flop.
Take it over here.
Of course, I put a pin in it over here and over here.
Now, after that is finished, here is the way it looks when it's finished.
The flip-flop bow, and then I have the flip-flop tails that come out this way.
And then I think the best way to finish the end is just to fold it under a little bit.
Now, then this one over here has been zigzagged down.
You can zigzag or wing needle entredeux or maybe daisy entredeux.
Can you see that the fabric has been cut away from behind on this part?
Let me show you from the back.
When you want to go in, after it's been zigzagged or wing needle entredeuxed, you go in and
just trim it away.
You do not worry about those raw edges.
Believe me, they're not going to go anywhere.
Okay, come on over here and let's sit down and do this.
Although I am working on a wonderful linen and cotton blend fabric, I don't have to use
stabilizer if I'm just zigzagging, but I wanted to use a wing needle.
So I did use a tear-away stabilizer here.
Now then, I'm going to, let's see, it's about time to turn a corner here.
You can see I'm using a wonderful wing needle, baby daisy stitch, and if your machine does
have a feature, I'm going to come down and come around the tail here.
If your machine has the feature of a needle down, it's a good idea to always use it.
Now I'm going to kind of come slowly in here.
I'm going to come right down to the end, and when I get to the corner, okay, since I have
needle down position, it's going to automatically stop there.
I'm going to flip it a little bit.
Isn't this a pretty wing needle baby daisy entredeux?
I have a wing needle and a baby daisy stitch, but always remember on any kind of, any kind
of heirloom sewing and lace shaping, all you really have to have is straight and zigzag.
Now I'm going to turn around and go all the way back up.
My pretty little tide bow.
You know what I think this baby daisy entredeux looks like?
I think it looks like I'm sewing lace down with lace.
And by the way, I probably wouldn't use lavender thread on this color, but I think it makes
it show up a little bit better on television and on educational videos.
Oh, I'm just having more fun going around these flip flops.
And by the way, this technique is called flip flopping lace.
Okay.
I think you've, I think you've, I guess I'll lower the foot before I start sewing, shouldn't
I?
Now then the next technique I have to share with you, which is another lace shaping technique,
is called Celtic lace.
Celtic lace shaping means a lace shape that goes over and under.
Now let me show you what I'm talking about.
This Celtic lace shape has only miters.
Can you see that the lace goes over the lace and then it comes under and then this one
goes over the lace and then those are the miters.
By the way, this blouse is the New Zealand blouse designed by our dear friend Beverly
Sheldrick and the pattern comes in size 6 to size 28.
Let me show you another Celtic lace shape.
This time it combines curving and mitering.
Can you see the different curves that come around and it stops right here and goes under
and then you jump over and this time it goes over and then it goes under.
Isn't that a pretty Celtic lace shape straight out of the quilting industry.
All right.
Now this is a really beautiful petticoat.
Isn't that a pretty Celtic lace shape?
This time we have curves and miters.
It's really very easy to make Celtic lace shaping and I'm going to share that with you
right now.
First of all, you trace on your Celtic lace shape.
Now I've put the pins, in order to curve lace, I've put the pins around.
Let me show you how I make a miter.
I put a pin at the top and a pin on the inside.
Then I fold the lace back on itself, remove the pin on the inside, put it through two
layers and a perfect miter is folded in and then I start pinning the lace all the way
around.
Let me come down here and show you a little more.
All right.
I'm going to pin the lace in the curve, so I put my pin into the lace shaping board.
I'm going to come around a little bit more.
I'm going to pull the flat lace up, put the pin into the lace shaping board.
I'm going to come around again, put the pin into the lace shaping board.
Now I'm getting ready to do the Celtic part, you're going to see.
This time the lace is going to go over the piece of lace.
All right.
I'm going to stick a couple more pins in there.
One, following the lines of the curve, two, and then it has to go under the lace in order
to make it Celtic.
I've got to slip it underneath there and this is all you do.
Just get the piece of lace, slip it underneath the other lace, and then I'm going to continue
to curve around.
Now it looks to me like I have a little curve trouble over here.
This is one of my very favorite things.
It never ceases to amaze people.
You see that lace is a little bit floppy.
There are gathering threads built into French laces and the one that makes a scallop on
the top.
Now watch what happens when I pull that scallop, when I pull that scallop on the top of the
lace.
Do you see how it just curves that lace just really beautifully?
And then I'm going to come on around here, I have miters and curves.
Here is what it looks like when I have finished the design with the miters and the curves.
Now I'm not going to need this many pins but I will need to spray starch it and press it.
And then over here is what it looks like after it's been zigzagged down.
And you can see these areas right here, I have cut away the fabric from behind it.
Now do you notice this area right here?
I not only have cut the fabric from behind it but I cut the lace that went behind it,
I cut the lace away also.
That's what makes it so pretty.
Now then I'm going to share with you exactly how it is that we stitch this Celtic lace.
And remember these two techniques were curving and mitering.
Okay, there's a little trick to stitching Celtic lace, now I've already got it started
for you.
I'm going to stitch, I'm using by the way a beautiful wing needle pin stitch.
I'm going to stitch up two, now you see my lace goes over so you know what I'm going
to do?
I'm going to lift my stitching, I'm just going to jump right over, I'm going to lower it
because I don't want to stitch where it goes over.
Now again, this lace comes over so I'm going to stop once again and this is the real key
here.
And I'm going to slip it over because I do not want to stitch on top there and pull another
pin out here.
Now the next time I come to an intersection, I'm going to stitch right over it.
This is the wing needle Madeira applique stitch, now this time the lace is on top so rather
than jumping it, I'm going to stitch right over it and that is the key to stitching the
Celtic lace shaping.
So I'm doing my Madeira applique stitch, my wing needle right over it, I did not stop
on that one.
And the next technique I have to share with you is quick shadow borders.
This technique for shadow borders is so easy, okay let me share with you a beautiful pillow.
This pillow has a machine embroidery in the middle and it looks like it's really complicated
to make, well it isn't, it's so very easy but the shadow border that you see is right
there.
There's another shadow border over here on the edge and this is stitched down both of
these shadow borders with feather stitching.
Let me share with you another shadow border pillow which is really pretty too.
This one the shadow border is around the edge and the shadow border is also on the center
in the butterfly and this has the gimp cord to finish it.
Now look at this trick which is so easy.
First of all you're going to trace on off the border, you're going to trace your scallops
on or whatever shape you're going to use.
To make a shadow we're going to use another color fabric, in this case blue.
So I stitch it onto the hem and then I'm going to turn it under and after it's turned under
and pressed it looks like this.
The next step is to come in and work from the front and just zigzag or tiny feather
stitch like I showed you on that blue pillow, the border to the front and then guess what
I'm going to do, you got it, I'm just going to trim it away.
Now if I want to make it corded I will come over here and after I've done my first step
of zigzagging or whatever stitch you want to use and trimming away then I will take
the gimp cord, hold it and come along and just zigzag on top of the gimp cord.
Now this one's in green and not quite so pretty, let me show you what it looks like when we
do it properly in white.
The white gimp cord and the little bit of blue that we sewed on will peek through from
the front.
You can see how the blue is right there and a little shadow in the front.
Another way of doing this is to, let me show you once again, we have the blue stitched
on in the back.
I'm going to come along and wing needle entredeux this along here and then I will, I have to
have stabilizer by the way, that's what this white tear away is and then I will trim it
all away, pull the stabilizer and this is what it looks like when done in white with
your wing needle entredeux going along there and here's the blue on the back that's going
to peek through for that little border.
Let me show you one more interesting border right here.
This is a print fabric, just kind of a little quilting print, stitched on, now I'm going
to turn it under, then I'm going to straight stitch or zigzag right along there and then
once again, and then trim it away, once again I have used the gimp cording in a pretty pink
and if you'll kind of just look real carefully you can see just a tiny little print that
peeks through, here's what it looks like from the back.
This is really very easy to do so come on over here and let's stitch it.
Once again I'm going to use that little quilting fabric, let me hold it up here so you can
see I have that pretty little quilted print, I'm using wing needle so I'm going to use
stabilizer.
Now I'm going to be using my Madeira applique stitch and I'm going to just be sure the fingers
of the Madeira applique stitch go in towards your quilting print and I'm just going to
watch this and stitch around, I'm using my Madeira applique stitch and after I finish
stitching I'm going to come up to the points, of course I've got to stop here and take out
the pin but as you can see that's Madeira and I will come back in and I will trim it
away.
Next I have another shadow technique for you, this time it's called shadow applique sandwich.
Shadow applique sandwich is so easy and so very very pretty, I'll tell you a little secret
it looks like you've done shadow work embroidery by hand, okay look at the little doll dress,
this beautiful little bow right here looks exactly like you've done shadow work embroidery
by hand.
Now let me show you another pretty shadow applique sandwich, this pillow is really beautiful,
here we've used the Madeira applique stitch and I think that's a very beautiful pillow
for a bedroom myself.
Now the good part is it's so easy, first of all I use Wonder Under which has one non sticky
side and one side that's kind of shiny and has glue on it, okay trace off the design,
go over here to your fashion fabric which is the blue piece of fabric and iron this
down to the blue fabric, then I'm going to cut out my whole design as you can see I've
started cutting it out here and then after I cut out the design then I pull off the Wonder
Under and that's also left some sticky on this part too.
So I bring the bow, turn it sticky side down, once again press it onto the white fabric,
now how am I going to make it a sandwich, okay I'm going to, you see I've got my blue
bow right here that I've just shown you the step, I'm going to go ahead and trace those
other little designs, those are little decorative lines on there, then I'm going to put another
piece of white fabric over it, now why I've drawn these lines on here is because if you
go ahead and draw those lines it makes it a lot easier to stitch, of course you're not
going to use black ink the way I have, you're going to use one of the Dixon pencils or something
that will wash out.
Okay after I get all of this put together then I'm going to come in and either tiny
tiny zigzag or Madeira applique tiny tiny also with a regular needle, no wing needle
all the way around there and then I'm going to use blue thread not pink but the pink shows
up well there.
Okay come on over here and let me just show you how this is done, I have my blue bow on
the bottom layer, just one minute, blue bow pressed down on the bottom layer, I have some
stabilizer here so it won't go slipping and turning on me and I have white fabric on top
and I have traced off the lines that I'm going to sew, in this case I have just got a really
really tiny tiny little zigzag and so I'm going to sew along, I mean when I say tiny
I mean tiny, it is a one width and a one length, a little bitty zigzag, I'm going to come all
the way down here, come into a point that's the reason it's really good if you sew those
points down, I'm going to flip and turn going back in this point, I'm just using a tiny
little zigzag, okay I'm into the next point and by the way if you do have needle down
position on your machine this is a great time to use it, okay that is shadow applique sandwich
and now one of our all time favorite techniques from Sew Beautiful and from our videos and
from our Martha's Sewing Room, we're going to have another little tips and tricks for
Australian windowpane.
Australian windowpane is a really beautiful technique and don't tell anybody because it's
all so easy, here is a wonderful pillow, very much a classic home decor pillow, not really
very much heirloomy, it's done out of a gold silk dupeyoni and it's lined in white and
you can see this is the Australian window part right here, I'm going to show you exactly
how to make this pillow, now if you want an Australian windowpane that looks a little
bit more like traditional heirloom, here is one and the pretty little print fabric that's
behind there, this is the Australian windowpane part, really it's organdy, it's organdy built
into a pillow is what it is.
Now how does Australian windowpane work, first of all I trace off my whole design on a piece
of organdy, this happens to be Swiss organdy, then I go to get my fashion fabric which in
this case is silk dupeyoni and I spray a little KK2000 on there and put this water soluble
stabilizer down and then I put my organdy on top of it, the next step is to tiny zig
zag all the way around the outside of the big design and zig zag, teeny zig zag, almost
a straight stitch around the little dots that are going to be cut out and the silk dupeyoni
is going to show through those little dots also, now the next step is to come in here
and trim away, I see I've trimmed away this bit, this organdy hunk here, I'll come in
here and trim it away and I'm also going to trim away the little organdy pieces, now you'll
have to be really careful doing this and by the way one of the reasons I put the water
soluble stabilizer down was so it would be easier to trim away that organdy and not catch
the green silk dupeyoni, so I'll trim all of it away, here is what it looks like after
I have the whole outside trimmed away from the outside of the flower and the inside of
both the little tiny dots and the center dot, now how am I going to make it really Australian
window pane, I turn the whole thing over to the back and I trim away the green from the
back and I've already put another piece of stabilizer, you know what let me just show
you on this one, I'm sorry, let's come to the back and trim away the green from this
side, you can see how I trimmed away from the inside, now it's peekaboo and then the
last step is to put several layers of stabilizer behind here because you're going to need it
and to come back and do a beautiful satin stitch, just simply an applique stitch all
the way around the outside, around the little circles, the little eyelets and all the decorative
work and then the final Australian window pane is over here, where you zigzag or little
applique stitch around and then come on over here to the sewing machine with me and I'll
just show you a little bit about that final applique stitch, all you use is a nice zigzag
and we're simply going to applique, okay, my width is 2.5 and my length is 0.7, I simply
have a zigzag stitch on, okay, now I'm going to zigzag on the line, there we go, that's
a tiny little short one, there we go, all the way down into the point and then I will
stop and turn around and come back out and that is my applique stitch, I'm going to
come around and go around the curve here and I will finish off the whole flower simply
by doing an applique stitch around it and now our final segment for this educational
video is one of our all time favorite techniques we've ever presented and so beautiful in a
lot of our books called Shark's Teeth.
This is such a wonderful technique called Shark's Teeth, this blouse which is one of
the patterns in our Heirloom Sewing for Women's book shows that your teeth do not have to
be real close together, see here's the shark's tooth, here's the shark's tooth in combination
with machine embroidery, now I have a really beautiful pillow here done out of linen and
Clooney Lace with the shark's teeth right in the middle and just some pretty decorative
stitches right beside the shark's teeth, here they're just one, two, three, one, two, three
rows of shark's teeth, I have a little bit more heirloomy looking pillow which has several
more rows of shark's teeth and a couple of little lace ruffles around it so you see shark's
teeth can look a lot of different ways, now if you have a template, there are two different
ways of doing shark's teeth, I'm going to show you the template way first, you trace
off the fold line, the stitching line and the cutting lines, okay now I'm going to fold
it back on the fold line and I will come over here and stitch on the stitching line, in
other words I'll lay it out like this, stitch on the stitching line and then when it opens
up, I'm ready to cut on the cutting lines, the next step I have here, I have actually
cut on each one of the cutting lines, cut up and cut up, now then I'm going to next
fold these back, in other words I folded this piece over and this piece over, now the reason
they're sticking up like that is because I used a little bit of glue stick, that really
helps to fold these back and makes it go a whole lot faster, so I folded each piece back
right here and right here and glue sticked it just a little bit and then I have come
down here and in this time I have straight stitched across and over here on this one
I have zigzagged across, now then let me show you a different kind of shark's teeth, this
one is probably a little bit easier, after we came out with the original shark's teeth,
then there was a little template, a little stick developed that makes it really easy,
it's called the tucks and point guide, okay it tells you on this tucks and point guide
in the directions, if you want a one half inch tuck you make your, you just draw your
lines one and one half inch apart, draw a line, draw a line, draw a line, then you've
got to mark your center, next you go ahead and stitch in your tucks, your one half inch
tucks, so I've got one tuck and then one tuck, now here is the really neat part, you simply
lay, you simply line up your center and lay your tuck and point guide right along here
and then I will simply draw in with an erasable pen of course, I'm just using my little stick
to show you, you draw on, you just simply go across there, now isn't that fast, now
there are some little holes in here too that are really neat also, after you draw your
first tuck, if you're going to do more than one tuck you come here with your pen and you
put a little mark in each one of those holes and guess what that shows you, that shows
you where your next line up will be, so I'm going to line up with those little holes and
now then I'm ready all the way across the skirt just to mark, mark, mark, mark, mark,
it really does make it a lot faster and once again I'll come in and mark the little points
where I know exactly where to line up next time and then I will move over there and line
up the next time, once again I take my little glue stick, now here let me open this one
up to show you a little bit better, alright this is the way it's opened up, I will fold
this point down, fold this point down and put a little dab of glue stick underneath
it and once again I have put a little glue stick on here and then fold down one point,
fold down one point all the way across, you can see my row of shark's teeth there and
then I have taken the whole thing and gone to the sewing machine and stitched it down
right on top, I can use a zigzag, I can use a Madeira applique or any stitch I really
want to use, now come on over here with me and I'm going to stitch this a little bit
for you, I am going to stitch down holding the whole shark's teeth and I'm using an
open toe embroidery foot simply because I can see better and I am simply using a little
zigzag where I am going to zig and zag all the way across, I am sewing by the way right
on top of the tuck line so it really is nothing to guiding and I am just simply doing a zigzag,
my length is one and my width is 1.5, I am stitching through all the layers as you can
see I have my shark's teeth just simply laying flat and I stitch right along the top there
and this is all there is to making shark's teeth and I am going to tell you what of all
the techniques we have ever put in so beautiful and by the way where did we get the shark's
teeth technique, it was off of an antique petticoat which I purchased at an antique
store in Huntsville Alabama, I went by a little booth and I looked at it and it just spoke
to me this little shark's teeth petticoat it was about that long and I took this and
I sent it to Sue Pennington and I said Sue please interpret this in modern day techniques
I think it is one of the sweetest things I have ever seen and about three weeks later
Sue Pennington sent it back to me and she said Martha here it is, she said it wasn't
very hard to do and I said well Sue where did you get the name shark's teeth and she
said well I will tell you what, I took my children to the aquarium and said the sharks
swam around and she said they kind of smiled at us and I looked at those teeth, the shark's
teeth and I thought aha that looks just like that antique petticoat that Martha just sent
me and she said I would like to call this shark's teeth so there indeed Sue Pennington's
children named this shark's teeth and now that I hope you have enjoyed our educational
video we have had for you today we have really chosen some of my very favorite techniques
and now I would like to invite you on a little tour of the Martha Pullen Company catalog
we have some beautiful things if you are a subscriber to So Beautiful you will automatically
get one mail to you twice a year and if you are not a subscriber or if you have a friend
that would like a catalog all you have to do is have them call 1-800-547-4176 and we
will be glad to send them a catalog too thank you so much for subscribing to So Beautiful
and for joining me on this educational video today and may God bless all of you.
I would like to take you on a tour of the Martha Pullen Company catalog now most of
you know about So Beautiful magazine since you got this video and I hope you are really
enjoying the new aspect of So Beautiful magazine we have a beautiful magazine three beautiful
magazines we are bringing in from Australia that you can subscribe from Martha Pullen
Company the first is called Embroidery and Cross Stitch and if you love hand work you
will love this magazine the second one is Creative Machine Embroidery by Jenny Haskins
absolutely gorgeous for those of you that have built in embroidery machines and if you
love Victorian the most popular machine embroidery magazine in the world I think is called Machine
Embroidery also from Australia it has everything but the kitchen sink and it too is gorgeous
you may subscribe to all four of these magazines from Martha Pullen Company we are so happy
to tell you about our machine embroidery disks that fit all machines I might add everything
we do fits every machine that has the computer disk capability first one is Noah's Ark and
it has all kinds of cute little animals Mr. and Mrs. Noah and two versions of the ark
as well as a big storm scene then heirloom classics one that's our first heirloom classics
I guess you can guess there will be some more has beautiful ribbons and bows and holly and
a beautiful Easter egg and a pansy basket and beautiful crosses some of you know how
much I love crosses and even two little children that have come off of my antique valentines
now I'm just gonna move this over here oh do we have some special excitement for you
we have a new doll and she is an 18 inch doll she's from the goods company and this is the
first time we've had a jointed doll it's the first time we've had an 18 inch doll and see
your arms and legs move and stay up there and her legs come up and they stay there she
can tap that she can do anything you want her to do her name is Cecil Elizabeth named
after Joanna and Chase's baby she has dark brown hair and very blue eyes of course she
will be signed and numbered and the first ones will be shipped somewhere in November
of 1999 so call early to be sure you get your lowest number I signed and number all of my
dolls from the German company goods now then I'm happy to tell you that we have a new three
best friends I'm so excited to introduce you to our next 13 inch doll our African American
doll named Lily I think she's absolutely beautiful and she will be such a good friend to your
other three best friends now where are the three best friends well here they are here
is Morgan here is Emma and here is Bradley and right down below is the little doll bed
that is so beautiful for the three best friends and right beside that are some of the very
very fancy clothes and wonderful hats and lingerie and everything that you will find
in the book for the three best friends which all of these things including always 18 inch
doll clothes so Cecil Elizabeth's clothes are in here too now then let me just share
with you some fun things that some of you may know about and some of you may not we
have this little vest here with the button-off sleeves it's in the book beautiful vest and
all the rest this blouse right here with a beautiful Normandy lace on the collar and
wonderful doleman sleeves is featured in the Australian blouse book this has been a very
popular one for lace shaping and machine embroidery as well as hand embroidery that is the New
Zealand blouse and this is one of the blouses from our very popular coffee table book heirloom
sewing for women which has the very large pattern envelope to go along with it these
two the New Zealand and the Australian blouses are sized 6 through 28 and this book I think
goes from a size 2 to a 24 I believe that's right heirloom doll clothes for goods that
is that has all the wonderful sizes including the 18 inch popular size all kinds of books
and these paper dolls they're called heirloom paper dolls and I'm telling you people just
love them it's a little boy and a little girl and it stands up like the old-fashioned paper
dolls stood up now we have some wonderful notions and I'm going to tell you right now
that the first one I want to show you is the zinger I keep this attached even on the airplane
when I'm traveling when I'm doing smocking on the airplane I go boink boink but I do
have to take it off and I go through the you know the security thing but this zinger and
these wonderful Ginger scissors this is the kindergarten scissor or nurses pocket scissor
which you absolutely have to have for heirloom sewing I promise let me show you some other
fun notions this Dixon pencil I don't know how I would do tracing off things if I didn't
have a Dixon pencil it washes out or brushes out and it's absolutely wonderful for tracing
because you can get a pencil line we have transfer paper by the way to go with those
embroidery cards the embroidery disk we have boxes of sulky thread for exactly the colors
to go along with Noah's Ark as well as the heirloom classics lace shaping boards oh my
goodness this is almost a necessity this June Taylor lace shaping board if you're going
to do much heirloom sewing and lace shaping we have beautiful needle packs for a hand
heirloom sewing and the heirloom tissue paper the acid-free tissue paper to store those
beautiful christening dresses we have a new book that we've just finished called you can
make money from your hobby and it was published by the largest Christian publisher in the
world broadman and home and it's a book that I wrote that is about my story and it's a
little bit too about not a little bit a lot about how you can make money with your hobby
it talks a lot about home-based businesses and hopefully I will help you not to make
all of the mistakes that I seem to enjoy to make when I started my business we have the
beautiful we have all of the series the tapes of Martha's sewing room for so for those of
you that don't get Martha's sewing room but those of you that do we also have the tapes
so you can go back five years with the tapes from Martha's sewing room if you look over
here this is the Martha pulling thread stand this is the greatest thing since sliced bread
for those of you see how many colors are up there you can just pull your thread bring
it down when you change colors for your machine embroidery and it's absolutely incredible
to have 10 threads right up there one of the things that we love is the odd light it was
developed for the medical industry it does not get hot and it really will let you see
in the right color it does not it doesn't distort the light when you sew I bet some
of you have not yet seen dr. Joe's pleater let me just hold this up this is an incredible
pleater of course you probably can guess who dr. Joe is that you can actually put the threads
down here on the thread stands it's heavy so it doesn't jump all over the table it's
24 rows wide and half spaces all the way across it comes with 48 needles that's $48 value
in itself and it really is the creme de la creme as far as smocking machines go now along
with that you also get a video a so beautiful video which has smocking directions and you
get our best-selling book on smocking the joy of smocking now then we love to tell you
about grandmother's hope chest with the beautiful christening dresses absolutely gorgeous as
a matter of fact I think there are about $400 of patterns alone if you were to if you were
to add them up individually on the in that envelope right there we have many different
types of fabric we have the beautiful swiss nalona we have the a wonderful alternative
it feels like the swiss batiste but it runs in about the eleven or twelve dollar price
range and we have the victorian batiste we have silk to be only a lot of colors we have
a huge selection of ecru and white french laces as well as some wonderful let me just
show you these a number of we have tatting well I just dropped it in the floor but that's
okay we had decided a number of years ago that the swiss embroideries had gotten too
expensive so we have manufactured in new jersey some gorgeous patterns that are just our patterns
we've designed them and they're about 75 percent less expensive than the swiss embroideries
they're beautiful even american entredo we have the swiss entredo too I'd like to remind
you about our Martha Pullen school of art fashion we've been having I believe is 17
years now the school dates for the year 2000 are February 7th through the 9th for pre-day
and 10th through the 13th by the way that's in Huntsville and our July school dates for
2000 are July 24th through the 26th for pre-day classes July 27th through the 30th the year
2000 for our regular school now some of you do not know yet about Martha's sewing market
but it is wonderful it's a consumer show we have in the Dallas area actually it's in Arlington
Texas and our 2000 dates for Martha's sewing market be sure you make your plans to bring
a bus load or a van load and come on out for all the fun the dates are June 1st through
the 3rd the year 2000 and by the way we have once you pay your whatever your low admission
is this year it was $15 once you pay your low admission all of your classes are free
all day long so you just take a seat go in if there's a seat you sit down and enjoy your
classes and they're also free evening activities once you get in the door well we have a lot
of other things here as you can see I haven't shown you everything I just wanted you to
see a little bit about what we have at Martha Pulling Company and we are so grateful that
you have chosen to subscribe to So Beautiful Magazine we thank you from the bottom of our
hearts for all that you do for us and just let us know what we can do for you thank you
and God bless you.