How to embroider a simple Mug Rug using a 5x7 hoop on your embroidery machine.

[Music] stitching a Mugler can be a lot of fun and giving it even more but it can be a little intimidating at the beginning my name is Monica I'm from almost place and I'd like to show you how to do a very basic mug there are several mug works on this CD that use different techniques three of them primarily one of them is the one I'm going to show you today and it has a border and some top stitching on the border the other kind that you will find is it's applique reversed applique which means the fabric is removed underneath so that there is no sign through and the third kind is this that kind of looks a little bit like a quilting block but what we are going to be doing in this video is show you how to just do very basic mug work okay let's get started first of all the supplies you need you can tell what the supplies are from your list of supplies in your write up you want to be sure that you print it out or that you have a laptop or maybe a Kindle next to you so that you can read the instructions easily once you have printed them out find your supply list and just walk through it and make sure you have the supplies and let me just show you quickly what you would need you would need of course your fabrics and I have them pre-cut here you would need fleece and these are already the pre-cut fleece pieces I do that I have a whole big stack of them ready to go for any mug you would also need very much so painters tape painters tape is used in many of my projects if not all of them you would also need a stabilizer and you have two options for stabilizer you can grow with beef people or you can go with a woven cutaway ok what are the advantages of each the paper one when you put it into your frame and you press down on it it stays pretty securely in there it also gives a little body to Europe and product here and what I mean by that is let's say you would like to displayed on a little display rack then you want something that has a little bit more firmness to it and for that purpose this would be good you know not everybody uses my works for and actually mug work they use it as a little display maybe in their office to show what they are what the interest might be let's see a golf mug work or whatever else so maybe this particular mark would be very inspirational put up on a little display when you want to do that I usually use paper for that and I like the fact that it stays stable in hoop without me having to do anything more okay does it hold up very well in washing probably not if you have to do multiple washes of an item which you would do with an axial mug like you probably don't want to use the tearaway okay so here we have polymesh and if you haven't worked with polymesh it is washable and it feels a little bit like a fabric you can see here that it just moves on handles like fabric when you put this in here it tends to slip a little bit and I push down on it you have to make sure that it's really tight but even with that as the stitches hit the fabric and the stabilizer there's a little shifting and this is a trick that I'm going to show you now that isn't mine it is I have learned it from John Deere from adorable ideas and what you need to do is take T pins or you just straight pin with a larger head I don't know whether you can see this here I have a larger like a heart shape I have some that are a button up up at the top okay I think there once with flowers whatever it just is a bigger head to keep it from slipping so what you do is you place the needle right here along the frame and the larger head keeps the stabilizer from slipping and you just go along the side of the frame go over you're close to the edge and I stick about with a five by seven frame I stick about three of them in there and then I go to this side and do the same there and you see what I'm doing I'm making sure it's taut and I'm pulling on it as I'm putting the next pin in and we place three again just like we did on the other side you know when you're stitching lace that becomes really important so that the pieces stay connected okay can you see that okay I'm ready with that um I think the next step we need to do is show you how to do our backing we do not a lot of places that sound my works they have an opening either on the bottom or maybe on the side that you will need to fuse or you will need to hand stitch and most of us try to avoid hand stitching so what we do is our backing you see is split in the back and then we fuse it I'll show you how to do that in just a second what that does is when you look from the front it's very smooth it's very even which is difficult to accomplish if you have to hand stitch something on the bottom or the side okay so how do we do this this is the whole stack that you will find on your CD all of these okay I have a little iron here that I find very very useful it's called clover mini iron or wedge iron I noticed that Joanne's the other day they have all sorts of little irons now I like this because it's pointed and really can get into the corners very well here are the two pieces of backing and you know we use this technique in a lot of our products you will find this on our mini placemats you'll find this on our miniature quilts it's a such a neat and clean way to do this okay I have some steam machine here and the steamer seam is sticky on one side and the other one has paper on it and I take this piece and place it along the edge one of the longer edges right along the edge and I just tear it up on the bottom sometimes it doesn't want to cooperate okay and then I take my little iron and fuse that to the edge there once it's fused I'd turn it to the inside and with my iron go read one more time so it stays there and sometimes I even give it a little help with Mary Ellen's best press you can also use regular a sizing and that will keep the edge very neat and clean okay I take the second piece and I put this edge folded edge it's up I take this piece right side down and place it over the folded back edge I don't know whether you can see that there and then I use painters tape and pretty much cover the whole edge you know if your machine has low clearing the foot could get caught underneath the backing edge there so to cover most of it will prevent problems and then I do a smaller piece in the front here and your backing is ready okay so you need to do that ahead of time so when we start stitching now you are all set to go so not only do you need painters tape but you also need this deema same - and the - just means there is stickiness on both sides okay all right I have already loaded the design onto my machine and I am ready to start stitching I'm placing my hope on and your first stitch out your first color will grow directly onto the stabilizer okay here we are what you're looking at is the outline of the mug and it will be a guideline it will be a guideline for placing the fleece now okay when you place the fleece it helps to put just a tiny amount of adhesive spray on to keep the fleece in place we have the fleece here you see that the corners have been rounded off that will decrease bulk in the finished product later you place this inside and you will notice that it's actually a little smaller than the actual outline I do that not everybody does then I do that so that the seams won't be quite as bulky okay now that we have done that we need to place the center fabric okay now what we have here is the top of the adhesive the adhesive side is up okay so the the fuzzy kind of side is down and this is the adhesive side up all right we take the center fabric right side up and you place it over the fleece and then comes your trusty tape you want to place the tape like along the edge kind of narrowly because you don't want to have the needle travel through it if you can help it if it does it's no big problem but you know what it's kind of a pain to get it out after afterwards so let's avoid problems if we can alright here we go that's what it looks like and it's ready to go back on the machine what it is doing at this point is it is stitching not only the center of stippling but it is also attacking down the center fabric so it doesn't [Music] okay what we need to do next is we need to this is after finishing on the machine we need to remove the tape the fabric is held down by the tacked on stitches let the machine stitched so what you should have should look like this now and what we're going to do is we're gonna trim away the fabric where we're gonna be applying the border strips so you're gonna fold this back like this and then we're going to be trimming this away with your little scissors now you'll only chew it away on two sides not all four okay well we have a problem so you trim it away on the short ends and you go right up close to the stitches to the tacked on stitches and those tack down stitches on the sides triple stitches so you don't have to worry too much that you might be cutting into them okay why do I do this why do I ask you to trim this away first of all it gets rid of some bulk in the seams but the most important reason is it will expose a little bit of the fleece and when you put the borders on you can fuse the borders to the fleece and it will make for a smoother edge okay next is we take our two strips and we place them along the short edges that you just trimmed right side down and then we secure it with tape which is over here and I found it easier to place the tape right here in the center of the mug or two at the center of the mug work rather than at the short ends when I've done it at the short ends when I found is that sometimes there is a little extra material in the center I can get it quite flat at times because I have to tape it to the frame so I found that that piece is really all I need and then you do this to the other side right side down piece of tape again okay and it is ready to go onto the machine all right now that I taped the border strips here I'm going to place it back on the machine for the top stitching of the border okay I took it off the machine we can go ahead and take the tape off and then you bring the borders right side up and you kind of finger crease along the edge there and then I take it over here with my trusty little iron and I come from the center of the design over to the side that's how you should be ironing and as you're doing that you'll see that it fuses with the fusible fleece and gives you a very clean neat edge along the main fabric and the border fabric okay now we're going to quickly secure the sides here and guess what we almost done wasn't too bad was it here is your prepared backing take that the seam goes up and down on the shorter side and you're kind of centering it over the rest of the embroidery secure it with tape sometimes I be use pieces of tape depending on how good the tape is but I really not more than twice because then it loses its stickiness okay and here it is back on the machine for the finals this one has a border stitch okay now that we are done stitching we're going to remove all the tape everywhere even the one that got caught underneath the stitching and once you've done that you're going to unhook the embroidery pins on off and I'll remove those so I don't stick myself which is likely to happen never got your finger stuck in tape I just did okay here we have a poly mesh and the nice part about poly mesh is it cuts away so nice and cleanly see what I'm doing here I'm folding it over then I'm going to take my larger scissors and I'm just going to zip along here and get rid of that when do that to all four sides okay now what we need to do is trim around the microwave to about Oh quarter-inch third of an inch and also trim and cut the corners so don't work either okay be a little more there all right and now we're going to turn it right side out and that's always the exciting part wondering what the final Margaret looks like turn it right side out take that piece of tape off as well okay now what I do is I use a crochet hook to push out the corners and here it is I push that out I'm finding that the crochet hook is less likely to puncture the corner and that's why I use it and now it's time to press the item and what what you do is you press it from the back the sides first and again it helps to add just a little spritz of best press or sizing and press the sides first with a fabric going toward the center when you're pressing okay you want to have the back fabric not showing on the front if possible okay when we do it from the other side and pressing is very important with all of your embroidery projects it makes the difference between a professional or equal and one homemade looking product it's really important I can't stress that enough that's how your product will shine okay so I think that looks pretty good now we're going to do it from the front I'm doing it with my wedge iron here but actually for this it's really preferred to use the larger iron because it's a little heavier and you get faster and better results all right now we go to the back and we peel off the paper backing from the steamer seam we line it up the way you'd like it to look and then with our little iron or the big iron we press again if you're worried that the steam Aseem won't hold up during wash you can of course always add a few hand stitches if you feel comfortable doing that I don't think it's really a problem and there you are with your finished product okay hope you enjoyed making it and let you learn something thank you [Music]

Channel: Oma's Place

Views: 4,710

Keywords: machine embroidery, embroidery, sewing, home made, mug rug, 5x7 hoops, PES, ART, JEF, HUS

Id: zzS0f90wDDI

Length: 26min 53sec (1613 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 23 2019