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Arrows Row Pattern - Page 1 of 1 plus Cover Page

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Gather the prepared cut fabrics and supplies needed from the pattern cover.

Read through all the instructions first.

Step 1 Prepare the Background Squares

1. Use a ruler and a pencil to draw a diagonal line, corner point to corner point as shown, on the wrong side of each of the twelve 5” background squares.

Use a mechanical pencil and make the line just dark enough to see clearly. Use a piece of sand-paper behind your squares to help hold them in place as you draw the lines.

Step 2 Make the Arrow Block

1. Place a 6-1/2” x 9-1/2” arrow rectangle, right side up, on the table in front of you.

2. Place a prepared background square, right side down, in the corner of the arrow rectan-gle as shown. Be sure the corner edges are even and the line is going in the correct di-rection. Pin in place.

3. At the sewing machine, grasp both the top thread and the bobbin thread together in your left hand. Be sure the top thread is between the toes of the presser foot. Pull both threads together out towards the back of the ma-chine. Pull them out as long as your wrist to your elbow. This is a long tail of thread. Try to remember to do this every time you begin to sew a line of stitching.

4. Place your arrow rectangle under the presser foot as shown with the needle positioned on the pencil line. Lower the presser foot.

5. Hold onto the thread tail with your left hand and begin sewing on the pencil line. Let go of the thread tail after a few stitches. It’s not necessary to back-tack at the beginning or end of this stitching line. Trim the thread tails neatly when you’re finished sewing the line.

6. How did you do? Is your sewing line straight and on the line? If you think you can do better, ask an adult to help you remove the stitches and try again.

Each time you sew a line it will get better. Soon you’ll be a pro at sewing on lines!

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Step 3 Flip and Press the Corner 1. Flip the lower corner of the background square

up to meet the corner of the rectangle. Do the two corners meet? If they’re just a tiny bit off, that’s OK.

If they are really off, ask an adult to help you re-stitch the background square. You’ll get better with each square you stitch.

2. Now flip the square back. Ask an adult to help

you trim away the corner leaving a quarter inch seam allowance.

3. Take your arrow to the ironing board and flip

the corner back up. Press it nice and flat. The seam allowance underneath should point toward the corner.

Step 4 Finish the Arrow Block

1. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 with the other side

of the arrow rectangle, placing the back-ground square on the opposite corner.

2. Start sewing as shown. Remember to pull out a long tail of threads first.

3. Flip the corner up. Test to see if the corners meet. Trim the seam allowance and press.

Yes! This is correct. It’s the seam allowance needed to join with other blocks and still keep the arrow’s point.

Congratulations! You have made your first arrow block. Now have fun making the next one.

Step 5 Finish the Arrow Row

1. Arrange your arrow blocks in a row as shown. You can move them around in any way until you like how they look.

2. Join the blocks together with quarter inch seams and press the seams in the same direction.

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3. Hooray! You have completed your Arrows row.

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Big Wheels Pattern measurements: 8” outer circle 3” inner circle

Gather the prepared cut fabrics and supplies needed from the pattern cover. Read through all the instructions first.

Step 1 Prepare the Background Squares

1. At the ironing board, fold a 9-1/2” background square in half with the wrong side in and edges even. Lightly press the fold line with an iron to make a crease.

2. Unfold the square and fold in half again in the other direction with edges even as shown. Lightly press the new fold line making another crease.

3. Unfold the square and fold in half again diagonally. Lightly press the diagonal fold line to make a crease.

4. Unfold the square and refold one more time diagonally in the other direction as shown. Lightly press the fold to make a crease.

5. Open up the square and smooth it out with the right side up. You should see all the crease lines clearly.

6. Using a ruler, measure out 2 inches from the center of each crease line and make a tiny pencil mark as shown.

7. Thread your machine with thread matching your wheel. Bobbin too. Stitch length setting: about 12 stitches per inch or 2.0.

8. Stitch, following the crease lines, starting and stopping at the marks as shown. Do not back-tack. Stitch on all the lines to make the spokes of your Big Wheel.

Don’t worry if all your lines don’t intersect in the middle. Hold the block up at arm’s length in front of you. Can you see the boo-boo? If yes, ask an adult to help you take out the stitches and try again.

9. Make a background square for each of your wheels. Change the thread color for each wheel. You’ll become a pro at threading your machine!

10. Trim the thread ends neatly. Press the square nice and flat. Set aside.

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Step 2 Make the Wheel Pattern

1. Fold a separate piece of blank paper in half. Set aside.

2. Carefully cut out this half-wheel pattern.

3. Place it on the folded piece of paper, straight edges even with the paper’s folded edge. Use a glue stick to glue it in place.

4. Use pins to hold the two paper layers together as shown. Carefully cut out the half-wheel again using the same cutting lines. 5. Remove the pins and unfold the paper. It should look like a big donut.

Congratulations! You have made your Big Wheels pattern.

Step 4 Practice Stitching the Big Wheels On Paper

Tip: Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com and download the printable activity sheet “Sewing Curves.” It’s fun!

1. Trace the Big Wheel circles on a piece of blank paper.

2. Unthread your machine. Sew on the paper, without thread, on the traced circles. Start with the outer circle. Begin at the three o’clock position. Sew slowly. Ask an adult to show you how to use “little pivots” to keep your stitching on the line.

3. Next, practice sewing 1/8 inch inside the outer wheel line. Look for a line or edge on your presser foot that can be used as a guide.

4. Practice sewing 1/8 inch away from the inner circle too. But this time the stitching will be on the other side of the line.

Step 3 Trace and Fuse the Big Wheels

1. With a pencil, trace the wheel pattern on the smooth, paper side of each of the four fusible web squares. Use a bit of painter’s tape to hold the pattern down while tracing. DO NOT cut out yet.

2. Place your wheel fabric squares WRONG SIDE UP on the iron-ing board. Place a traced wheel with the smooth, paper side up, on top of the fabric squares.

3. Ask an adult to help you fuse all the traced wheels following the manufacturer’s instructions for your fusible web.

4. Now it’s time to cut out the wheels. Cut out the inner circle first.

5. Place your background squares with stitched spokes right side up on the ironing board. Peel away the paper backing from the wheels and center each, right side up, on top of the spokes. Fuse the wheels in place. Set aside.

Step 5 Stitch the Big Wheels

1. Thread your machine with thread to match a wheel.

2. Stitch around each wheel 1/8 inch from the edge just like you practiced in Step 4. Start with the outer circle. When you get back to where you started, stitch 4-5 stitches over top of your beginning stitches to lock them in place.

3. Now, stitch the inner circle. Don’t worry if you mess up. Ask an adult to help you remove the messy stitches and try again. Each wheel will get better!

4. Trim threads and press each Big Wheel block nice and flat.

Step 6 Complete the Row

1. Arrange the Big Wheel blocks in a row.

2. Join them together with quarter inch seam allowances and press all the seams in the same direction.

3. Hooray! You have completed your Big Wheels row.

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Friendship Bracelets Pattern - Page 1 of 1 plus Cover Page

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Read through all the instructions first. Young kids should read them out loud to an adult. You may only be able to complete one step a day. Older kids can accomplish more.

Step 1 Arrange Your Bracelet Rectangles

1. Lay out the twenty 2” x 6-1/2” bracelet rectangles. Arrange them in four columns with five rectangles in each. Have fun with this step and arrange them the way you like them.

Tip: Take a photo of your arrangement to refer to later if they get mixed up.

2. Make four stacks. Keep them in order, right side up, with 1 on top and 5 on the bottom.

Step 2 Join the Bracelets with Quarter Inch Seams

1. Ask an adult to help you find the quarter inch line on your sewing machine. Tape a piece of blue painter’s tape along the line. Use this as a guide for sewing your bracelets together.

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2. Take the first stack to your sewing machine and spread it out as shown below.

3. Layer bracelet 2 on top of bracelet 1 with right sides together. Stitch down the right side with a quarter inch seam allowance.

4. At the ironing board, press this bracelet pair open with the seam allowance pointing down toward the bottom of the stack.

5. Add the next bracelet. Stitch and press the same way.

6. Continue adding bracelets until the stack is finished.

7. Congratulations! You have sewn your first stack of friendship bracelets. Now have fun with the next three.

Step 3 Add the Background Rectangles

1. Add a 2” x 6-1/2” background rectangle to the top and bottom of each bracelet stack using quarter inch seams. Press the seams toward the bottom.

2. Ask an adult to help you trim the bracelet unit to 9-1/2” tall as shown.

Step 4 Add Embellishments 1. Lay out your bracelet stacks and decide

what trims you would like to add to make them look like the ends of real friendship bracelets. Have fun with this step.

2. Pin the trims in place. They should point

inward as shown. If it’s too bulky to pin the trims, you can use a piece of blue painter’s tape instead to hold them down. Baste them in place near the edge.

To baste means to use big stitches to temporarily hold something in place. These stitches can be easily removed later. Ask an adult to help adjust your stitch to a longer length.

3. Pin a 2” x 9-1/2” background strip, right side facing in, to the side of the bracelet stack carefully matching the side edges as shown. Stitch down the side using a quarter inch seam.

4. Repeat with another 2” x 9-1/2” back-ground strip on the other side of the bracelet stack.

5. Take your bracelet block to the ironing board and open up the side strips. Press them nice and flat with the seam allow-ances pointing in toward the bracelet stack. Pressing in this way makes the trims point outward.

Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com for tips about this pattern and how to sew a charm embellishment to one of your bracelets.

Step 5 Finish the Friendship Bracelets Row

1. Join the bracelet blocks together with quarter inch seams and press the seams in the same direction.

2. Hooray! You have completed your Friendship Bracelets row. Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com for project ideas using this row plus many other fun activities.

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Step 3 Make the High Top Applique Unit

1. Cut out the fused shoe top and fused sole shapes.

2. Peel the paper backing from the sole only. Do not remove the paper from the shoe top yet. Position the sole on top of the shoe shape. If a little of the shoe top shows, that’s OK. It can be trimmed away. Ask an adult to help you fuse the sole to the shoe top.

Tip: Use parchment paper or a pressing sheet to protect your ironing board when fusing the sole to the shoe.

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Read through all the instructions first. Young kids should read them out loud to an adult. You may only be able to complete one step a day. Older kids can accomplish more.

Step 1 Trace the High Top Pattern Shapes

1. Lay a piece of paper backed fusible web on top of this pattern page with the smooth, paper side up. With a pencil, trace around the outside edges of the entire shoe including the bottom sole.

2. Slide the fusible web paper away from the whole shoe to make space to trace just the bottom sole. Trace around the entire bottom sole including the toe cap all in one shape.

3. Cut out around the two patterns. Do not cut on the pattern lines. Cut about a 1/2 inch around them. You will cut on the lines later after you have fused them to the fabric.

Step 2 Fuse the Shapes to the Fabric

On the ironing board, place the fabric for the shoe top and fabric for the bottom sole ugly (wrong) side up. Place the traced shapes on top of the fabric with the smooth, paper side up. Ask an adult to help you fuse the pattern shapes following the manufacturer’s instructions for your fusible web.

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Step 4 Fuse to the Background Square

1. Place a 9-1/2” background square pretty (right) side up on the ironing board.

2. Peel away the paper backing from the shoe and position it on the back- ground square. The bottom of the sole should be about 1-1/4” from the bottom edge of the square.

3. Fuse the shoe in place.

The pattern is reversed for the fusible applique method. When finished, your High Tops will point to the right.

Step 5 Practice Zig Zag Stitching

1. Ask an adult to help you make adjustments to your machine for zig zag stitching. Set your stitch width so the stitches are about 1/8” wide. The length should be short but not so short that the stitches pile up on top of each other. A tiny bit of fabric should be visible behind the stitches.

Step 6 Zig Zag Around the High Top Applique

1. Cut a 10” square of tear away stabilizer. Place it underneath your High Top block. Use a few pins to hold the layers together.

2. Begin zig zag stitching at point A and stitch to B. Do not back-tack. Trim the thread tails neatly after stitching this line.

3. Next stitch from C all the way to D. Trim the thread tails. 4. Return to point C and begin stitching toward the top of the shoe.

Continue all the way around and finish back a point C. Trap the ends of the previous stitching when you cross over them and back-tack when you return to point C. Trim the thread tails neatly.

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Step 7 Finish the High Tops Row

1. Make three more High Top blocks and join them together with quar-ter inch seams. Press the seams in the same direction.

2. Ask an adult to show you how to tack on the shoe lace trims. 3. Hooray! You have completed your High Tops row.

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Visit www.rowbyrowexperience.com for zig zag stitching practice activities, how to use stabilizers, and more about machine applique.

2. Use fused fabric scraps left from cutting out your shoe shapes. Fuse them to some leftover background fabric. Practice zig zag stitching on these. Remember most of the stitch is on the shoe fabric and the needle just barely swings off the edge into the background. Use stabilizer behind your practice stitching.

3. Ask an adult to show you how to pivot and turn corners. Zig zagging is not hard. It just needs to be practiced. You won’t be perfect at first. The more you do the better it will be. Have fun!

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Rover’s Head

Pattern is reversed for fusible applique.

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Gather the prepared cut fabrics and supplies needed from the pattern cover.

Read through all the instructions first.

Step 1 Cut Out Rover’s Body and Background

1. Ask an adult to help you rotary cut Rover’s body using the layout plan below.

Cut 1: 6-1/2” x 26-1/2” rectangle for Rover’s body Cut 4: 3-1/2” squares for Rover’s legs

2. Ask an adult to help you rotary cut the background using the layout plan below. Cut 1: 9-1/2” square

Cut 2: 3-1/2” x 2” rectangles Cut 1: 3-1/2” x 11-1/2” rectangle Cut 1: 2” x 9-1/2” rectangle

Step 2 Make Rover’s Ear and Tail following the

instructions printed on Rover’s Ear pattern on Page 2.

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Step 3 Make Rover’s Head

1. With a pencil, trace the triangular head pattern on the smooth, paper side of the fusible web rectangle.

2. Cut out around the head triangle but do not cut on the lines yet.

3. Place the triangle, with the paper side up, on top of the wrong side of the fabric saved for Rover’s head. Ask an adult to help you fuse the triangle in place following manufacturer’s instructions.

4. Now, carefully cut out the triangle and peel away the paper backing.

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5. Place the 9-1/2” background square, right side up, on the ironing board. Place the triangle, right side up, on the square as shown above, with the top and left side edges even. Fuse in place.

Step 4 Practice Zig Zag Stitching

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Step 5 Zig Zag Stitch the Diagonal Line on Rover’s Head

1. Pin a 10” square of stabilizer behind Rover’s head and background square unit.

2. Start on the left (Rover’s body) side of the square and zig zag along the lower diagonal line of Rover’s head. Zig zag along this line only. Tear away the stabi-lizer and press Rover’s head nice and flat.

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Step 6 Make Rover’s Body

1. Arrange the 3-1/2” leg squares, the 2” x 3-1/2” background rectangles, and the 3-1/2” x 11-1/2” rectangle as shown below.

2. Join together with quarter inch seam allowances. Press the seam allowances in the direction of the arrows.

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3. Join Rover’s legs to his body with a quarter inch seam. Does his leg unit match the length of his body? It should. But don’t worry if it does not. Up to 1/2” margin for error is allowed in this step of Rover. Sew his legs to his body and trim off the bit of his body that is too long. Press the seam toward his body.

4. Join Rover’s head to his body with a quarter inch seam. Press seam toward his body. Pressing in this direction will be difficult but it is correct.

Ask an adult to help you make adjustments to your machine for zig zag stitching. Set your stitch width so the stitches are about 1/8” wide. The length should be short but not so short that the stitches pile up on top of each other. A tiny bit of fabric should be visible behind the stitches.

Use fused fabric scraps left from cutting out the triangle. Fuse them to leftover background fabric. Practice zig zag stitching on these. Remem-ber, most of the stitch is on the top fabric and the needle just barely swings off the edge into the background. Use stabilizer behind your practice stitching too. Tear away the stabilizer after zig zagging.

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For Rover’s Ear

Cut 1: 9-1/2” square and fold in half with the right sides in.

For Rover’s Tail

Cut 1: 7” x 10-1/2” rectangle and fold in half lengthwise with right sides in.

1. Ask an adult to help you position the pat-terns on the folds and pin them in place.

2. Cut out the ear and tail pieces along the curved and notched edges. DO NOT cut the Fold edge.

3. Stitch the curved edges using a 5/8” seam allowance. DO NOT sew on the notched edges.

4. Ask an adult to show you how to trim the seams to 1/4”.

5. Turn the ear and tail right side out. Use a point turner to coax

out the points and smooth the curved seams.

6. Press the ear and tail nice and flat.

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Ask an adult to help you find the 5/8” line on your sewing machine. Mark it with blue masking tape. Practice sewing along the 5/8” line on fabric scraps before mak-ing Rover’s ear and tail.

Cut out these patterns. Do not cut on the lines yet. Cut around them to separate the two patterns.

Step 6 Add Rover’s Ear and Tail

1. Position the ear with the notch at the seam line between the head and body. Baste** along the quarter inch seam line to hold the ear in place.

2. Position the tail with the notch 1-1/2” from the top edge of Rover’s body and pointing in the direction shown. Baste to hold the tail in place.

Step 7 Finish the Rover Row

1. Join the 2” x 9-1/2” rectangle to Rover’s tail end with a quarter inch seam. Flip Rover’s tail to the left. Press the seam toward Rover’s body. 2. Measure the length of the row. It should be 36-1/2” at this point. If necessary, trim the left side so the row is 36-1/2” long.

Congratulations! Your Rover Row is finished.

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** Baste means to sew with long stitches that can be easily removed later. Ask an adult to help you adjust your machine’s stitch length setting.