These placemats and napkins will showcase the fun decorative stitches available on your Baby Lock Sewing Machine. Perfect for Halloween this fun addition to any table decor will add a spooky touch to your home this fall season! Use contrasting threads and the stitches will be sure to pop! Download printable instructions.
Materials:
- 3/4 yard of 45” wide purple Halloween printed cotton fabric
- 1/3 yard of 45” wide orange Halloween printed cotton fabric
- 1/3 yard of 45” wide lime green Halloween printed cotton fabric
- Packages of rick rack in orange white black and lime green
- 2- 15” ready-made black round placemats
- 2- 18” ready-made black napkins
- Assortment of threads that contrast the Halloween fabrics
- Rotary cutting system
- Basic sewing supplies
Tools:
- Baby Lock Sewing Machine
Steps:
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Cut the following:
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Two- 11” x 11” squares from the lime green Halloween fabric
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Two- 11” x 11” squares from the orange Halloween fabric
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Two- 8½” x 8½” squares from the purple green Halloween fabric
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Two- 18” x 18” squares from the purple Halloween fabric
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Press the edges of all the squares under ½” to the wrong side of the fabric.
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Pin a lime green square to the center of each placemat.
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Prepare the sewing machine for decorative stitching selecting a bold stitch pattern.
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Thread the machine with a contrasting thread color and black thread in the bobbin. Activate the Guide Beam (if your machine has one) to assist with stitching a straight line.
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Tuck the orange rick rack between the lime green square and the black placemat. Allowing just half of the rick rack to show.
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Stitch around the outside edge of the lime green square near the edge and through all the layers.
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Clip the rick rack at the corner and tuck under to make the turn around the corner smooth. Continue stitching.
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Repeat the above process for the orange square.
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Turn the square one quarter turn allowing the points to fall in between the lime green square points.
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Now add the final square. Line the purple square points up with the lime green square points.
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Stitch the square and rick rack to the placemat selecting a different decorative stitch and thread color.
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Repeat the above steps for the second placemat.
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To make the napkins lay the purple 18” x 18” squares wrong sides of the black napkins.
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Tuck the white rick rack between the purple square and the napkin. Again just allow half of the rick rack to show.
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Stitch the square and the rick rack to the napkins using decorative stitches a contrasting thread and black thread in the bobbin.
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