Trick or Treat Garden Flagby Kelly Nagel

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Project Overview

Show your Spooky Halloween Spirit with this fun and easy garden flag! By using Sulky® Puffy Foam™ and Glowy™ Thread, show you are ready day or night for those little ghouls and gals to come for treats on October 31st.

Fabric:• 14” square of black fabric

• Two 2” strips WOF of border fabric

• 20” square of backing fabric

• Scraps of black fabric for hanging tabs

• Thread:• Sulky Glowy™ Thread – Orange and White

• Black Sulky Bobbin Thread or Prewound Bobbin

• Sulky PolyDeco™ Thread – Black

Supplies:• 20” square of black batting

• One piece of Sulky White Puffy Foam™

• KK 2000™ Temporary Spray Adhesive

• Chalk marker or Sulky Stick ’n Stitch™ (for spider web design)

• Sulky Totally® Stable - Black

• Embroidery machine

• Sewers Aid™ (optional)

Template and Design Downloads:• Trick or Treat Machine Embroidery Design

• Spider Web template

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Instructions

Helpful HintBe sure to use a new needle and you may want to use some thread lubricant, like Sewers Aid on the needle.

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Step 1Download the Trick or Treat design and load it into your machine.

Step 2Prepare the black center square of fabric by ironing Totally Stable onto the back of the fabric and hooping.

Step 3Spray the front of the fabric with KK 2000 and place the white Puffy Foam on top.

Step 4Wind a bobbin with black bobbin thread and insert in the machine. Thread the top with the Orange Glowy Thread.

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Step 5Stitch out the design.

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Step 6Unhoop. Pull off the excess Puffy Foam and Totally Stable on the back. You may want to use a lint roller to get any extra pieces and lint off the black.

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Step 7Iron and square up center to 12-½” square.

Step 8Add the 2” borders to all 4 sides using a ¼” seam allowance.

Step 9Make a quilt sandwich with the front fabric right side up, batting and backing fabric wrong side up, spray basting the three layers together with KK 2000.

Note:Do not put the iron down on the puffy foam or it will flatten. You can hover over it and use steam if needed.

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Quilting the Project

You can quilt this project however you want. I chose to ‘free hand’ a spider web in each corner in Glowy thread. Here is how to do it free hand.

Step 1Draw 3 white lines from the corner with a chalk pencil (see picture).

Step 2Stitch over these three white lines using Sulky Glowy thread in white.

Helpful HintIf you want the glow effect to be stronger, use the triple straight stitch decorative stitch on your machine.

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Step 3Starting from the edge even with the top of the first line (see pic), stitch in a slight curve and connect to each line.

Step 4After stitching the first line all the way across, use the edge of your foot as a guide and stitch the next line in the same manner.

Step 5Continue to add stitching until you have the whole web filled in.

Step 6Repeat this in all four corners.

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Step 7Switch from the Glowy Thread to Sulky PolyDeco in black and echo quilt around the words ‘Trick or Treat’ out to the spiderweb quilting.

Step 8Quilt as desired in the border. I quilted straight lines.

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Another Quilting Option: If you don’t want to quilt the spiderwebs free-hand, we have included a pattern. Print the web pattern on a piece of Sulky Stick ’n Stitch, cut apart, and place the webs in the four corners. Stitch over the lines. When you are finished with all your quilting, either rinse the Stick ’n Stitch off in the sink or put the quilt in the washing machine on the gentle cycle to wash it away.

Download Spider Web Pattern

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Finishing Up

For Hanging Tabs:1. Cut 2 pieces of black fabric 5” x 2-¼”.

2. Turn the 5” sides under ¼”, press and topstitch them down.

3. Fold the strip in half and attach them to the top of the quilt about 2” in from each edge when you are attaching the binding.

4. Bind the quilt in your favorite method.

5. Enjoy your new Trick or Treat garden flag!

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