Embroidery Class: Getting to know the machine (1st of 4-part series)

This is a four week class participants are expected to attend all four sessions.  Enrollment will be limited to 6 participants.

Session 1 February 14: Getting to know the machine

               Off and on, Menus, moving around the menus.

               Threading the machine bobbin and sewing thread

               Machine set up and put away.

               Stitching out a design from another source. Choose the appropriate format. How to load and stitch out the design.

Materials Needed: felt, stretchy fleece, something soft that gives a little, red quilting cotton for heart and inside ear.

Goal: Make a stuffie in the hoop using tear away stabilizers

Here is a link to a video about an in the hoop stuffie:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+machine+embroidered+stuffies+work&oq=how+do+machine+embroidered+stuffies+work&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.17591j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0afa229b,vid:zk8ScI001w4

Homework: Find another stuffie on line and stitch it out to share at our next meeting.