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Little Pink House Tutorial (Wool Felt Appliquein Hoop Frame)
Melissa fromCheckout GirlandLittle Pink Houseshares her house hoophow-to today. Read herintro, browse through her fantastic shop, and then
grab some felt and get to work!
From Melissa:
This hoop, with its little pink house and garden of wool felt flowers is an
excellent way to use up felt scraps if, like me, you have drawers full. (If
you dont have drawers full of scraps, then this project is an excellent way
to make some for future use!)
Materials: 7 wooden embroidery hoop
Linen fabric to fit hoop with approximately 2 inches overhang all around
(Ive used a creamy-beige linen, but this project looks great with a sky-
blue background as well. Cotton works, too.)
Felt scraps (I use wool felt or wool-blend felt exclusively in my projects
because the look is rich and lustrous and the felt never pills. You can, of
course, use whatever felt you have on hand.)
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Thread and/or embroidery floss (either will do). You can use a single
thread color (like white) for the entire project or match your thread to each
piece of felt appliqu. (I have used green to attach all my flower pieces.)
Wool Hoop Template (This is optional, as you can freehand this project if
you wish.)
Tools:
Sharp scissors
One or two straight pins
Hand sewing or embroidery needle
Pinking shears
Tacky glue
Ready?
The House:
1. Stretch your linen on the hoop, and alternate tightening the hoop and
pulling the fabric taut until you have a nice, smooth, drum-like surface on
which to work.
2. Using the templates, cut your house piece (pink) and your roof piece
(gray), along with all your window pieces (the pink background for the
dormer and all the white pieces for the glass).
3. Pin your house piece
so that its centered left to
right and approximately 1
and inch from the top
of the hoop frame.
4. Use a simple, running stitch to attach the house piece to the linen,
taking care to make your stitches small and as even as possible.
5. Pin your roof piece so it overlaps the house piece and sits
approximately inch from the top of the hoop frame.
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6. Use the running stitch, again, to attach the felt roof to the linen.
7. Because the window
pieces are small, you
wont pin them before yousew. Position the pink
dormer piece so its
centered left-to-right and
top-to-bottom on the gray
roof piece, and attach the
dormer to the roof using a
small, neat whipstitch.
8. Repeat this process for the dormer glass (white), centering it inside the
pink piece.
9. Position a window piece inch from the left edge of the pink house
piece and approximately inch from the roofs bottom edge, and attach
with a whipstitch. Repeat for the remaining window.
10. With white thread or one or two
strands of white embroidery floss and
using a back stitch, create stripes
from left to right across the pink house
piece, approximately 1/3 inch apart.
(Note: for much of the embroidered
detail in my work, I use cotton thread
doubled up and knotted off at the end,
creating a double strand. For larger
details that I want to stand out more
boldly, I use two strands ofembroidery floss doubled in the same
manner to create a four-strand
thickness. Whew. Thats a lot of
math.)
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11. With black thread or
one or two strands of
black embroidery floss,
use a backstitch to tracethe outside of each white
window piece and to
create a crossed/pane
effect inside each
window.
The finished house.
The Flowers & Petals:
12. Now for the fun part!
Using your desired colors
of scrap felt, cut circles
that vary in size from a bit
smaller than a dime to a
bit larger than a quarter.
(You can cut these
freehand, use
thetemplates Ive
included, or even trace
coins if you like!) Some of
these will be the petalspart of the flower and
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others will be the centers,
so you can experiment,
before attaching to the
linen, with differentconfigurations and color
combinations, trimming
pieces to fit as necessary.
I made sixteen flowers, so
I needed 32 circles, but I
always make loads, and I
think you should, too! You
will also need to cutapproximately 8 leaf
shapes from green felt.
(Ive included
a templates, but these are
fairly easy to cut
freehand.)
13. You can use the photo of the
finished hoop as a model or
experiment to your hearts content
with the placement of your circles.
Attach each petals circle to the
background with a small, neat,
running stitch, until all your petals
circles are in place.
14. Create stems for the
flowers that flank the
house, using green
thread or floss and a
backstitch.
15. Attach a center circle
inside each petals circle
using a small, neat
whipstitch.
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16. Attach leaves to your
stems and in other nooks
and crannies around the
garden, using greenthread or floss and a
backstitch. (Ive begun
the stitching at the inside
point of the leaf and
worked my way out,
stopping shy of the other
end point of the leaf.)
17. At this point, your appliqu is
complete (Good job!), and all that
remains is to secure the back before
hanging. I like to trim some of the
excess fabric to make gluing easier.
Then lay the hoop on your work
surface so that back is facing up and
run a bead of glue around the insidehoop. (Tacky glue works fine, or you
can use a glue specifically made for
use with fabric and wood.) Using
your thumbs, smooth the fabric down
over the inside hoop, all around the
edge, affixing the fabric to the inner
hoop. Sometimes I have to go
around the hoop with my thumbs twoor three times to smooth and affix
the fabric properly.
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18. Once the glue has dried, use your
pinking shears to carefully trim excess
fabric, cutting as close as possible to
the hoop.
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