She Brews: Drawer Sachets

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Give me an old creaky oak floored building, with high tin ceilings and hanging fixtures, half decked in vintage quilting material, half in used smelly books, a Starbucks in the middle, with big fluffy chairs, a little Dave Matthews Band playing and some days perhaps, David Crowder Band, depending on my mood, and my best friend, my daughter and I may never leave.

Drawer Sachets

I started with moda charms of 12" X 12" I purchased on-line at Fat Quarter Shop . I made a template out of matboard measuring 3"x 4" and cut four pieces of muslin , at this point you could trace your embroidery pattern on your muslin with a water- soluable pen. Then iron blank side with heat and bond lite. After folding the 12 x12 in half, I centered and lined it up close to the bottom (leaving room for seam allowance) and ironed the muslin applique to the 12x12. I use the heat and bond lite because it allows stitching with reasonable ease. I like to embroider on two layers because I don't worry about my needle travel showing through......

Here you can see the pattern traced on the muslin. You can stitch around the applique any stitch you like. I don't know the technical word for this stitch I use, but it is the one I use the most, although if you know blanket stitch, that would work well too. Stitching around the border makes it nice and clean and I don't worry about it lifting. I also use DMC cotton perle size 8. I like this better than embroidery floss, or maybe I just haven't used embroidery floss because I used this first....lol. Maybe I would really like embroidery floss if I used it.....
I store my perle cotton in little cases made for matchbox cars. I can carry quite a number of colors with me at once when I travel.

I looked to see if I do the borders first and then the design or the other way around....I don't think it matters and I think I change up because that's how I am---I don't like "beaten" paths as well as the new ones......

I am not going to post the patterns today, because I will be posting them on the Flickr Embroidery Blog tomorrow with the finished bags pictures. Make sure you check them out tomorrow.

Once the bags are embroidered, I sew a hem on the top of bag, fold it right side in and stitch it closed except for the top of the bag. Clip the corners, pull right side out and fill with a dryer towel and some cotton batting and tie the top with matching ribbon. Package them up nice and give them to mom for mother's day. There you go.

More pictures tomorrow.