ITH Chubby Patchwork Hearts

These quality designs are created and copyright protected by Inspiration Mutz

Embroidery

www.inspirationmutz.com

©Copyright 2014

MK ITH Chubby Patchwork Hearts is copyrighted by Ursula Lamb. You may not transfer, copy, share, include in

other collections, or sell these designs without written permission from Ursula Lamb. To do so is in direct

violation of national and international copyright laws

Please DO NOT copy these designs for anybody else. That is called sharing and not only against

the law and considered copyright infringement but also unfair towards the designer. Inspiration

Mutz Designs are all manually digitized and involve many hours of planning and work before the

finished product / project can be seen and enjoyed. So, be fair – don’t share.

Please note that I do not work according to certain brands of thread - hence you will not find color

codes or brand names here - rather a description.

‘Machine stop colors’ are only there to make the machine stop to enable you to perform certain

tasks. You can thread any color suitable.

Possibilities for colors are endless for these hearts – so there is no color chart as such, however here

are the colors I used while testing a 5x7 and a 4x4 heart so you have an idea about the number of

color changes and the stitch counts.

4x4

99.10x97.00 mm; 3,698 stitches

21 thread changes; 7 colors

Color Changes

1. Machine Stop Color

2. Machine Stop Color 1














16. Green Sage

17. Peach Medium

18. Peach Dark

19. White

20. Peach Medium


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5x7

129.90x127.10 mm; 4,542 stitches

25 thread changes; 7 colors

Color Changes




















20. Metallic Gold

21. Blue Soft

22. Metallic Silver

23. Purple

24. Metallic Gold


Method:

Pre-cut fabric as follows: For the 5x7 For the 5x7 For the 5x7 For the 5x7 heartheartheartheart 2 pieces 11 x 4 cm / 4.4 x1.6 in From contrast color : 2 pieces 9 x 5 cm / 3.6 x 2 in For the 4x4 heartFor the 4x4 heartFor the 4x4 heartFor the 4x4 heart 2 pieces 9 x 5 cm / 3.6 x 2 in – nothing in contrast color. 5x7 Heart: Very tightly hoop a piece of light weight fabric such as poly cotton or cheese cloth and stitch 1st 2 colors. Place a piece of thin batting over color 2 – hold in place and stitch color 3. Remove hoop from machine and trim away excess batting.

Stitch color 4 and place the piece of fabric you plan to stitch the initial onto over the just created placement line – hold and stitch down with color 5. Remove hoop from machine and trim away excess fabric leaving a small seam allowance to all edges. Stitch color 6 – place a piece of fabric a little bigger than the just created placement line and place on top – hold and stitch in place with color 7. Remove hoop from machine an trim away excess fabric all around – leaving a 1 cm / 0.4 in seam allowance to all outer edges, a smaller one of about 0,5 cm / 0.4 in to inner edges but cut as close as you can to the edges with a narrow zigzag. Repeat until 2 more pieces of fabric are placed ( stitching colors 8 up to 11)

Color 12 is the placement line for your 1st piece of pre-cut fabric. Place it wrong side facing you and 1 longer edge just covering the placement line and with a small seam allowance to each side: Stitch color 13 – fold fabric over and finger press. Repeat procedure with opposite side.

Stitch color 16 – the placement line for your 1st piece of pre-cut fabric out of contrast color. Place fabric as done before – repeating procedure on the other side. Remove hoop from machine and trim away the fabric behind the placed pieces to avoid bulk. Stitch all decorative detail and the initial – have a flat article ready or press fabric down with fingers as the machine stitches to ensure that all fabric lays nice and flat.

Last color is next. Remove hoop from machine and place loop as shown – secure with cello tape. Place the fabric you are using for the backing wrong side facing you into the hoop, hold in place as last color stitches. Remove work from hoop and trim away excess fabric all around – leave a small seam allowance were you see the gap left by the last color stitched and also be careful around the area were you placed the loop/ribbon – don’t cut it too close to the stitching line.

Turn inside out – use a seam pusher for curves. Fill with stuffing and close the opening with some slip stitches by hand.

Here is your pretty heart done! 5x7 4x4 The 4x4 heart is done in exactly the same way - just that you only will have to pre-cut 1 size of fabric (2 pieces 9x5cm / 3.6x2 in) Best wishes Ursula [email protected]

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ITH Chubby Patchwork Hearts