~Fusible Webbing - 12" section/page
~Fusible Interfacing - Cut 9" x 12"
~Silk Ribbons (4mm) or any ribbons you wish to use.
~Embroidery Floss
~Matching Thread
~Mechanical Pencil
~Matching Pencil Crayons
~Black Fabric Pen
~Embroidery Needles
~Small Scissors
~Masking Tape
~Laying Tool (or blunt needle)

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1. Cut the fabrics, batting, fusible interfacing the size required [Rotary Cutting~ #F].

2. Trace the design/stitch guide onto the cream background fabric, with a mechanical pencil.

Tip: Holding it up to a window works well, using masking tape to secure.

Request the free April Stitch Guide and Templates here

 

3. Trace over the 'saying' with a black fabric pen.

Tip: Placing the fabric on a sheet of sandpaper taped to cardboard, will help hold it in place, for a neater finish.

4. Fuse the interfacing to the back of the thin batting.

5. Each block will include the template to make the frame.
This template is one quarter of the frame.
After you make the template [Cardboard Templates] draw the frame on the paper-side of the fusible webbing.
Flip the template around and upside down, aligning all four corners, to draw the whole frame onto the webbing paper (Diagram #1).

Diagram #1

6. Apply [Fusible Appliqué] the frame & large letter onto the background fabric, that you've prepared with the design, where marked.

7. Layer the backing, batting and block top by thread basting [The Quilt Sandwich ~ #5 & #6].
Then machine stitch, using a longer stitch and cream thread, around the edge of the frame.

8. Stitch the flowers in silk ribbon, using the guide (Diagram #2) and the instructions on the Silk Ribbon Embroidery (SRE) How-to's page.

Diagram #2

9. Embroider the remaining design parts with green embroidery floss, using a Stem Stitch (included with design templates), as follows:

~Thin Inner Frame - 3 strands of floss
~Around Large Letter - 2 strands of floss
~All Remaining Letters - 1 strand of floss

10. Using pencil crayons, colour in the large "A" with a matching green, and the smaller Tulip letters with a matching red. See the large block picture for example.