Hello, everyone, and welcome to this tutorial
on Emma's Collage Pillows. My name is Kim from Kimberbell,
and I'm here to walk you through every step of the way of making one of the collage pillows
that comes on this brand new CD. and this has three different gorgeous designs on it
for your 5 x 7, 6 x 10 hoop 8 x12 hoop,
even a 9 x 14 hoop. And this is something
that is a brand new technique here at Kimberbell. We are so excited
to bring the look of collage appliqué to your embroidery machine. For years, people have enjoyed
collage, appliqué, designs in quilting,
the traditional quilting world. Well, we're going to do it
on embroidery machine today. And you're going to love how much fun
it is to do now to get started. You're going to want to,
of course, the CD itself with the designs. Oh, and you're also going to want
this proper stabilizers. This is going to be important to making
your pillow just as beautiful as can be. So the very first one
I want you to make sure and have is the Kimberbell sticky back tearaway. This is one of those stabilizers that
you just are going to absolutely love. This is going to allow you
to float your design on top of the hoop when you embroider. So the second thing you're going
to want to have is something that we call a double sided sticky fusible web. Now, there are several brands out there
that fall under that category. So find one that your shop carries and that's then that's
going to be important to have. And then a third thing that we feel
is very beneficial to the success of this type of project
is the Kimberbell Wash away, Topper. OK, this is different than a washable
wash away stabilizer. This is actually
what we would call a topper. So check that out. You'll see how I use that in just a bit. So today I'm going to actually do
the design called "Bless This Nest," and I'm going to put it
on one of our pillow cover blanks. This is one that's done in a linen,
kind of an oatmeal, creamy colored linen. It's beautiful with this gorgeous
quilting, our pillow, a pillow cover blanks are actually, They come with the side seams un-sewn. OK, so it lays flat. It has the seam,
the side seams serged already. So you're going to have
a nice finished edge. It already comes pre quilted,
as you can see here. Look at that gorgeous coating design. All of our pillow cover, pillow cover blanks
have a different type of quilting design. This design itself has more of
like what we would call an orange peel. But the thing I love most
besides the quilting, of course, is that it has an invisible zipper
already sewn into it. So that means I can just lay this
on top of my hoop. What we might refer to
as floating on the hoop and do my design and then just so have the sides
and insert my pillow for it really is going to be that easy. All right. So let's
go ahead and get started. The first thing I want you to to see in your instructions, this,
of course, is a PDF that comes on your CD. But this will have a little tutorial and a little mini tutorial of a heart
just so that you can practice this technique of class quilting before
you actually get started on your project. I would highly suggest that you try out
that little heart tutorial first and then jump
right into your project. It's going to be a whole lot of fun. All right. So then the next thing
that you'll find after that tutorial,
of course, is the materials list. I'm going to show you right here
that you will see every material that you need for
putting this together. It also lists those different stabilizers that you'll want to have on hand
and the pillow cover blanks. Now, I'm going to look over here at
the column of the size that I want to do. And as I mentioned before,
it comes in four different sizes from a 5 by 7,
6 by 10, 8 by 12 and 9 by 14. I'm actually going to choose the 6
by 10 design for this project. And it will tell me the different
color groups that I am looking for and approximately how many fabric scraps
you need of that color. Now, I'm going to tell you...
a little tip here. Don't use this as
you're the ultimate guide. I want you to have fun
with this technique. I want you to pull out
all the scraps. Right. How many of you have. Scraps, of course,
you've got all kinds of scrap fabric, right, it's
hard to throw any of those pieces away. But that's the good news about collage
applique' is you can take those scraps that you've been holding onto
for maybe too long. Right. And now's your chance to play with them. OK, so let me show you some example
of the scraps I had in my stash here. Take a look at those beautiful fabrics. I've got my greens,
my yellows, my corals and reds. And I just started pulling, OK? I just said, oh, OK, I like that color
and this looks good together. But here's where what I want to show you when you are looking for fabric
for your collage applique' For me, I think it's nice
to have a pretty good blend of fabrics. So, for example, I have this one here, and this has a this is a Kimberbell fabric. It's got a coral background
with red on top. Well, I wanted to pull out more red. So then the next one
I pulled out was this one that has more red but has coral on top. Then I went a little bit
more on the pink side with red, and then I went almost all coral. And then I found this fun fabric
that kind of combined all of it together. These are the fabrics that I am
choosing for one of my birds. OK. So you can see how. Yes, they blend. They do pretty good. But it's also nice
to have some contrast in there, too. So therefore, having something
like with a little bit of gray in there and I pulled in some blue is going to be a really fun fabric
to play with. OK. Let me show you another example. Here's one where we've got yellows and I've got some, you know,
lighter yellows, some more mustard yellows, some yellows that have
maybe a little bit more green to it. But here's another one
that I absolutely love. And you know these as batiks, right? Batiks are a great fabric
to use with collage quilting, because you can see right
there, it's got all these great shades. Well, if I look at those shades
and I start pulling in some of the darker colors
and some of the lighter colors. This, again, is going to be
for one of my birds. It's going to be beautiful. So, you know, it's kind of a fine balance. You know, it's OK. Do I have it blend
too much or do I have it be more have more contrast? It really is a personal preference. And that's what makes this so fun. And no two are going to be alike. I could put together all these fabrics,
make two pillows out of the same fabrics that they're going to still look different, depending
on where I place that fabric. OK. So. Oh, my gosh. Are you ready to dig in? Let's go ahead and do one of these fabrics prep one of these fabrics with our Double-Sided
Fusible Web. OK. So, for example, let me go ahead and I'm
going to take this coral fabric here. And I think, oh, yes, that's definitely
going to be somewhere on my bird. OK, I'm not sure where yet,
but I'm going to start with this fabric and I'm going to turn it over
to the wrong side. So I'm just going to place this
over here on my iron ironing surface. Right. OK. Now I'm going to take us a little piece
of my double sided sticky fusible web. And there's a paper to it, OK? And you just want to bend
the corner a little bit and peel off that paper backing. OK. Once you you've done that. That's going to give you a sticky side. OK. You still have one
piece of paper on the other. But then you have one side that is sticky. I am going to use that to stick it
to the back of my fabric, just like so. OK. And I'm going to give it
just a good finger press. Now, I will tell you that I am more often than not. I would say you are also, you know, sometimes. Well, let me back up. Sometimes doing a finger
press is all you need. And then you'll peel this away
a little bit later. But I actually like to put a dry iron
to this only for a few seconds. And just to make sure
there's some good adhesion there. OK. So let's go ahead. And I'm just going to quickly
just brush that over. It was that quick. And now I know that's
going to add here nicely. OK. Now, once I've done that, me
grab my scissors here. All right. So that has
a good adhesion to it. Now, I can just cut out that square and to set aside
and put it in my pile of scraps, let's go ahead and take a look
at what I've got here so far. I'm telling you,
I had a lot of fun with this. I could not stop cutting. So there I go. I know that that's
going to be part of that bird. All right. But once you've done that, you can see I've then cut it out
into these little tiny pieces. Well, not too tiny. They're anywhere from,
I don't know, maybe and around an inch. You can make them larger. You can make them smaller. But what I want to do, as you can see
here, is cut out different shapes. There is no right or wrong reason
here, my friends. All you do is just curve in and out and in and around
and look at that. I've got a shape, a funny looking shape,
but it's a shape. And there's nothing that says I have to have so many,
you know, round circles around this or it has to be this size or not
that size. Anything goes. And that's probably why this is so fun
and so relaxing. I thoroughly enjoy this process
of digging into my scraps and just cutting out little shapes. And we recommend cutting shapes that are
more curvy, as you can see I'm doing here. And if you do straight lines, well, you're
going to see a lot more of. Oh. Where it begins
and where it ends. Should we say. But if you do something that's a little more curved,
it just kind of all blends together. In fact, we call it
kind of like cutting fingers. So think of it as you're cutting around and there's a finger cut around,
there's a finger, that kind of thing. You'll see why that can be
to your advantage here shortly. All right. So I've done that. Let's go ahead and move
these stabilizers out of the way. The next thing I'm going to do is just make sure
that I've got my little piles here. I divided it up according to,
like I said, branches, leaves, the eggs, the robin's egg,
all the different parts. And again, I didn't
I didn't count how many I did. I didn't make sure they were all a certain
size. I just cut I just threw caution to the wind
and I just cut away and have my pile. Now, another reason why I like giving it
just a quick little press with a dry iron is because maybe I'm not going to use
all of these fabrics today on this pillow, but I could put them
in little baggies and save it for another collage
applique' design. So there you go. It won't separate the paper and this or the fusible web and the fabric, if you will,
iron it together first. OK. Now, let's see. I got my my piles of fabric and I think I'm ready to
go. Are you ready? Now, as shown in your instructions, you're going to lay your pillow blank flat
with the wrong side facing up. The other thing I want to make sure do is that I am going to make sure
that my zipper pull is on the left hand side of me. Now, it might look a little bit backwards
to you, but for me, I'm looking at this and I'm saying, yep,
my zipper pull is over to the left. OK, now your tag,
your Kimbell tag in there. It may be fall, fall on the top. It may fall on the bottom of that zipper. It doesn't matter where it's at. It's
not going to be seen. The important part now is that the zipper
pull itself is on the left hand side. All right. Now, the next thing I want to
do is actually take my ruler right here and I'm going to measure across my pillow blank. OK, whatever that measurement is,
I'm going to divide it in half. So these may vary vary in width just a tad because of the quilting on them. But for me, I'm looking at it. I'm going, OK, I see a measurement. I see, you know,
eighteen, 18 and half, 19 inches. And then I'm going to whatever that is,
I'm going to divide that in half and create a center line right down
the middle, a vertical center line. I'm going to use a water-soluble pin
to find that. OK. So for this one,
I'm going to measure halfway. And this is where it lands. I'm going to mark a couple of places
so that when I go to draw my line, I'll just connect my dots,
if you will. OK. All right. So here we go. I'm going to just draw my vertical line going all the way down again. Water-soluble pen. I'm going to mark this line as A. OK. OK, so I've marked
my vertical line just like that. Now I want to turn my pillow blank over. I think I've knocked
some of my pieces off the table. Oh, well, here we go. Now I've got the right side facing off,
which also means that my zipper pull is now over to the right side of me. OK, so looking at your pillow now,
your your zipper pull is over there. Now, what I want to do is take the bottom that's closest to you and bring it up. And I want you to measure approximately a half of an inch above
the zipper teeth. OK. So this means you're
not going to measure it up here and you're not going to
measure it down here. The zipper teeth are right here. I'm going to measure about a half an inch. Now, don't worry if it's a little bit
beyond that or less than that. Just give it. I'm
just going to check my measurement here. I could eyeball it if I want to. No big deal. OK. All right. Let's set that aside, now that
I've done that, I have found where my crosshairs are going to go. OK. And I am going to mark on this
for just a little line here. All right. So, you know, lifted up just so that I can mark along that line. Just a little bit. OK. And I'm going to label
that as my B line. OK. All right. Now you're done
with the hardest part. And that wasn't hard, right? OK. You can do this now. I have actually already
hooped my stabilizer again, this is the Kimberbell, sticky back
tearaway stabilizer. And what I did was I hooped the stabilizer and then I scored around the outer edge
and removed the top coating of paper. So that just leaves me with a sticky back. That's sticky back stabilizer. Right. And then the first step
that you'll want to do, and this is a file that is found on
your CD as well, is you're going to locate the crosshairs
file and then stitch the crosshairs file directly on top of that
sticky stabilizer . All right. Now, that's important
because this is going to help me float my pillow cover blank. So in order to do
that, let's go ahead and look at step. Here we go. Step eight
in your instructions. All right. It says to align
the fold A. OK, here we go. I've got my A and B line here. Right. And I want to align A
with the horizontal line here. And I'm going to line B
with the vertical line there. All right. So to do that, I'm actually
going to fold this on top of itself with the B, the B line. OK. Right. There is my B line. Right here is my A line. Once again, access to line the B line up to the vertical crosshairs
and the A line up to the horizontal. All right. Let's see what happens. All right. I'm going to just shift
this right here. Looks like I've lined up my B line along there and my
A line right along there. OK, let's get. There we go. B line
A line because we've got the sticky back. We can just fold this back out. And it should be nice and centered. All right. Now, the next thing I want to
do, as I mentioned in your instructions, is to look on the back
and make sure that if you want to double check, you can go, oh, yeah, that lined up
pretty good. Pretty good. I say pretty good
because nothing's ever perfect, right. Now, this one's maybe a little more often
I want. So no big deal. I'm just going to turn it back over. And I'm going to try it again. OK. So I'm going to take
my B line and my A line Line them up to those crosshairs. Stick it down and my A line right here. All right, let's see how I did. Start on that end
and oh, that's looking a little better. And you know what? It's
good enough for me. So I'm just going to keep it right there. All right. OK. Now
let's get to the real fun part, and that is the collage applique'
going to places on my machine. I have already there goes
some more fabric off the table. I've already loaded my file in. This is the six by 10 size and. The extra fabric
from this pillow cover blank is actually going to lay off
to the left side of my machine. All right. Now, the first
step is the branch. And this is going to be
what we would call the placement outline. This is telling me this is where you place
all that pretty brown fabric here in just a moment. So let's go ahead and place my machine
foot down and do the branch. All right, so we have finished
stitching the placement line here. Now, you won't have to always
get this out of the hoop each time you go to do this next step. But I want to be able
to show you right now that there's my outline for my branch. OK. And I now get to have some fun
with these fabric pieces that I cut. Now, for the branch, I just
I used three or four different rounds. And again, as you can see,
cut them in all different lengths, sizes, widths, you name it. It's all just random. OK. Now, the others the tip
I want to give you is this. When you go to place your fabrics
on this area, the branch. I want to make sure that it's
at least a quarter of an inch. In fact, I personally like making it
more like a half of an inch larger than the area
that I'm going to cover. This is going to help
when you go to cut away the fabric pieces around the branch
a little bit later. So I'm going to it
might look really skinny, but I'm still going to choose
some of these larger pieces to place down on there now,
because if this is double sided sticky, I will just
peel off this paper. It leaves this sticky residue
on the back of it. And I'm going to place
it just directly on top of that area. OK. Notice, I did not line
anything up with that branch. I want it to be beyond the branch. I want it to go further than the branch. And because we're not fuzing this to it yet, you're going to be just fine
because it is repositionoble. If I didn't like that,
I had that fabric there. I could just peel it off because it's
just got and just enough stick to keep it down there for just a moment
until I really want to fuze it down later. OK, so this next one
I'm just going to choose. Let's choose this darker brown. You just have to just give it a little fold and then peel off that paper with your fingertips there. And I've got a stick. So I'm just going to place this here. Now, I certainly could place it this way, but you'll notice
that I might not have enough extra fabric beyond that branch
to really hold on to when I go to cut. So I'm choosing to
do it this way. All right. All right. Let's go ahead and here I've got a larger piece. I've got my stick. I'm just going to place that down on top. All right, I'm going to go back. In fact, let's go to this smaller one. There is no rhyme or reason for what I'm doing, except that
I just I'm just having fun with it. In fact, if I look at that now and I go, you know,
I want a little something extra in there. Well, no problem.
I'm going to take one of my other pieces, a different shade, a different fabric. OK. And I'm going to pull that off. And I think that might be too much
of one fabric showing. So I'm just going to layer it. Why not? Right. I'm going to just layer
it right on top. You see, this is just called having fun
and playing with fabric. Oh, my goodness. Here we go. There's another one in. You know, one thing
I realized as I was doing this is that you're going to use
a lot more fabric than you think because, you know,
you just want a nice, good variety. Now, it looks pretty funky right
now, doesn't it? Going OK. That doesn't look like a branch Kim. Oh, you just wait. You just wait because pretty soon
the magic will happen. Right. And I'm going to place this. It's nice and snug on there. OK. I'm not doing anything
with my iron quite yet. I don't want to fuze this
because imagine if I fuze it right now, we're going to have
a funny looking branch. What I want to do instead is actually
put it back onto the bed of the machine, do my next step, which is a tackdown
line of that same branch, and then you'll see
where it goes from there. OK, so let's go ahead and place
it back on your machine. And your next step. Before I do this one, though,
there's one other thing to note. You want to make sure that this stick is keeping everything down. OK. It's it's something that you don't want
to have a little piece of your fabric flipping up
and risk the chance of your press or foot
catching on to that fabric . So you're going to want to keep
a close eye on it. Now, the other thing you can do,
and this is where our water soluble Topper can come into play is
you could actually at this point cut a piece of this off. Hey, you just need a little strip. All right. And you could place
that over the top so that it becomes a barrier. OK, it becomes this plastic coating
that the stitches will stay on top and nothing's
going to flip your fabric over. So you could put that on there. If you do, you're going to want to use
some paper tape to keep it in place. So I'm just going to I'm going
to go ahead and do that, because, you know, I just I'm not sure. I don't want to risk
my fabric flipping up. If that happens,
you can kind of have a mess. OK, it's no fun. Right. So I'm just going to place this there now
because it's water soluble. I can easily, for one,
tear this away from it. OK. Or if I have any extra pieces left of it
after I've torn it away, then I can also just use a little bit
a spritz of water or something that'll come right up. OK,
so I've laid that down again. It's not absolutely necessary. But if you want to make sure
that everything stays in place and doesn't lift off with your presser foot,
I suggest the water soluble. All right. OK, so let's
go ahead and do our tackdown stitch, which is going to look
just like the same branch. We just did the step before. Let's take a look. All right. We have stitched that tackdown
line, as you can see there. Now, again, this is just something
that can be easily pulled away from the edge there. If you used it, now would
be the time to remove it. OK. If I have any extras that I can't get out then
and I mean, you shouldn't have a problem. But if there's any remaining,
you can just take a little water bottle and spritz it. OK. Now, you can see why having it a little bit larger
than the branch itself is going to help. Because what I want to do
is take my scissors and cut away all this extra fabric here. All right. So I'm going to pull out
some appliqué, scissors. There's a lot of choices
you have here in the Kimbell Scissor Tin. And normally we would probably go
with a duckbill scissor and I could certainly do that. I'll tell you which one
I like the most, though. But let's try it first with the duckbill. See what we think. Well, I like it. It's working good. OK. When I do. And cut away. When I cut away,
when I cut away fabric using the scissors. And what I want to do because I'm
a righty here, I'm going to pull my fabric taut with my left hand and then I'm going
to cut with my right hand. The more taut that
you can pull that, the better. So I also wanted to mention that I love having the duckbill portion
towards the center of my applique'. I think that gives you a really nice
upclose clean cut. All right. So you can continue to do that. Let's show you another pair of scissors
that I like here. And that is these ones here. OK. I love these scissors of ours,
because unlike other types of flexible scissors that are out
there, ours have these elongated blades. And we wanted to make sure that they were
sharp from the base of the blade to the very, very tip
because they are flexible like this. It's also going to reduce hand fatigue. I also like it's got this curved edge,
so it's not going to dig into my fabric, the low and keep all the fabric up on top. So, again, I'm going to pull tight with my left hand, OK, and cut with my right hand. All right. You'll notice, of course,
that I put this down on a flat surface. How many of you you can admit it? But after this, you can't do it anymore. Have tried getting
your applique's in your lap. Oh, please say it ain't so. Do not do that. I highly recommend
you not doing it that way. Always lay your hoop on a flat surface like a table and not your lap, because we do not want to take the chance
of this popping out of the hip, do we? All right. And you're just going to have
a much better experience and clean cut. All right. So we're just going to continue
this process of going all the way around that branch. All right. And before you know it, we're ready for our next step. OK. I have cut this around. Take a look. There we go. Now,
the next thing I want to do is actually iron this. OK, well, fuze this,
if you put it well, there we go. Now I want to take an iron skillet
because it is the shape of the branch. And I want to make sure
that all of those pieces are going to stay nice and flat for my next step. So I'm going to take it right here
and just give it a good press for about ten seconds is all you need. It doesn't have to be too much. Beyond that, you just want that To adhere
for all those layers to fuze together. All right. All right. Oh, yes. Perfect. All right. Now I can place it back onto the machine where it will do
a decorative stitch on top. And what I love about what
our digitizers did with this is that they wanted it
to look like a tree branch. Right. So they digitized it
to look like a tree branch. You'll see here what I mean
in just a minute. Now, some of you might ask, OK, now what thread what thread color do I used
to? I use a dark brown. There's different
shades of brown in there. Do I go dark? Do I go like
do I try to match? You know what? There's
no right answer for me. You know, I look at it and go, ooh,
I really want to see the detail. OK, I want to see that the branches. So I might go a little bit lighter
in thread color on this type of fabric, because I want to see the detail stitches, but maybe in another place on the design. I want it to blend a little bit more. So I would choose a thread that was closer
to the color fabric of a stitching on. Again, it's totally up to you. All right. So let's go ahead and do the next step,
which is our detail stiches of the branch. All right. Let's take a look at the decorative detail
on that branch. Zoe. Oh, I'm so excited. All right. Take a look. Here we go. We've even got a knot what we'd call a wood knot, right? We've got a wood knot right in there. And then we've got
all of the different lines just kind of going in and out. It's beautiful. Beautiful. All right. The next step is
we are going to do two leaves. Now, there are three leaves total. This next step just has
two of them right now. So I'm going to place that
back on the machine and I'm going to also
switch out my red color. So, of course, I'm
going to keep my leaves green. All right. So I'm going
to place the green on here. And stitch that out now. You know, you might be wondering about
when to change the thread colors and such. It will explain that in the directions
when we would suggest. But certainly this initial
what we would call the the placement outline
is not really seen in the design. So on a placement outline for this particular project, you'd be OK with
just about any color thread. I'm just going to go ahead and change green now, because then
I won't have to do it later. Right. So here we go with stitched out
to green leaves. All right. So as you can see here, I've stitched
the outline of two green leaves. Now I'm ready to play
with some fabric again. So I'm going to peel off my paper. Remember
I mentioned that you don't have to take this off the bed of
your machine each time. Sometimes it's easier
just to keep it on there and just place your fabric over it again,
making sure that you've got a little bit of extra
on all of the sides. OK. You just want to completely
cover this area. Now, one of the reasons why oh, this is a good example here. I'm going to show you something here. I'm going to show you what can happen sometimes with this double sided fusible web
if you go to peel it off and it didn't stick to the other side
and you're going, wait a minute, there's no sticky
on that other side. That's OK. Nobody deal. All you got to do
is just take it to your ironing board. Give it a little press of heat. Dry heat, OK, let it cool down a little bit. Whoo hoo. And I bet when I try it again. All right. Oh, here we go
now. Oh, that's it. That's what we're looking for. OK, so it's got some stick. I'm going to place it down on top. Now, the other thing
I want to mention right now is that, you know, we
I said that there's little fingers, if you will, lots of in and out
curves that you see. And here we go doing that
and having this repositionable allows you to do some talking and lifting
and, you know, placing interlocking fabric so I could lift this side up. You know how well you can see that and then we can take this one
and tuck a little bit of it underneath. And now those pieces
have interlocked, so to speak. So you could do that, too. There's really no
right or wrong way to do this. I know. I keep saying that.
But it's so true. And that's what makes it,
I think, especially enjoyable. Right. OK. Got another piece. I'm ready. And I think that right
there. And let's go. Oh, what do I want here? OK, let's go with. Well, let's do this one. Oh, my goodness. Is this fun? OK. There we go. I'm ready. Now I can place that there. Oh, so I used four different shades there. Let's go ahead and do the next one. Boy, if you wanted to. I was just thinking about this. Well, you could actually make
a really large piece and cover both of them at the same time. But. Each leaf is going to be
a little different. Right. That's what makes it more fun. I'm going to pull something over here. So layering one on top of the other, interlocking the fingers of each piece. All of those kinds of things
just make it absolutely uniquely yours. All right. I'm going
to use a larger piece here to cover. Oh, there we go. I had another one. It's the same fabric, so I bet I didn't
put enough heat on it before. All right. Let's try this again. Cool that baby up. There it is. All right. Having them
go different ways and oh, there's just different directions,
you can have them go off, as I'm told, vertical,
that does not matter where we go. All right. I cannot wait to see
what this turns out to be like. So it looks a little funky
right now. That's OK. That's what you want, right? I'm actually going to take a piece
of my water-soluble topping from Kimberbell
and place it over the top. Just because I can see that that might get caught on my machine
and I don't want that to happen. So I made sure I've got a piece
large enough to cover all the area. And I'm going to
just use some Kimberbell paper tape, of course, to make sure
that that topping stays in place. Let's go ahead and do our next step,
which is the tackdown line. All right, so we've done our tackdown stitch And now I actually do want to remove this
from the machine, because we've got to tear away
a couple of things. We've got to actually take away
this topper here. OK. Again, it is washed away. So if there's any extra pieces
that you can get out. No big deal. It looks like I'm getting it here. OK. I am actually really glad I put this down, because I can tell already that this piece
would have flipped up had I not. So that is a good thing. All right. But I want that to stay nice
and flat in just a minute. Don't press it yet with your iron, OK? Or else you're going to have
some funky looking leaves. We want to cut away all that extra fabric. So I'm going to I'm going to use these flexible ones here. Again pull taut. And get as close as you can to that edge
now, our digitizers went around and each of these edges, I think it's maybe a triple bean stitch, as I can see. And that's really nice,
not only for decorative purposes, but it's also going to prevent you from accidentally cutting any of that,
that those stitches away that you don't want to, right? All right. OK, I have just cut
the extra fabric away from the leaf, and now it's time to press it
for about 10 seconds because that's going to lay all the layers
nice and flat. OK. Once again, there is this little piece
that didn't get caught on one of the outlines, and that's OK, because it's going to stay
pressed down once I put this heat on it for like I said,
maybe about 10 seconds is all. And then we'll take it to the machine. We'll do the top stitch. And everything is going
to lay nice and flat, but it's going to have that beautiful
look of collage. And I'm just oh, I'm squealing right now because I'm so excited
about how these leaves turn out. And that's what it's
going to happen to you. You're going to do the eggs. You're going to do the bird's nest.
You're going to do the birds. I can't wait to do the birds here, because those are going to be such
beautiful colors to work with. And it will be a surprise to you
when it ends up looking like. Right. All right. OK. I put that down and ready for my next step. Let's do it. Oh, my goodness. OK. Once again, it's just one of those moments
when you take a look and you just go. Because look at the veins in the leaves. I just love the extra stitching on it. It's just something that just adds
a little something to those leaves or to all of the designs on here
that are digitizers do. And they do it so well. So very excited about this. The next step, I believe, is the nest. And I am going to, you know,
oh, no, it's actually the next leaf. And then we get to the nest. Now, here's what I want
you to think about. Visualize with me, OK? And you can use your instructions,
of course, your step by step directions to go through the rest of this process. But you're going to do
the same series of steps. So the first thing, of course, is we know
is that placement and outline, it will tell you
exactly where it will show you rather exactly where your fabrics
need to lay. OK. Once you've done that, you
then take all your fun pieces of fabric. Oh, so much fun. And then you're going to layer them
one on top of the other, overlap them just a little bit. OK. You don't want to get too thick of layers. So I wouldn't recommend maybe more
than, you know, doing one or two. Right. Right on top of each other. But if you overlap them just a little bit
and interlock the fingers, maybe lift one end and tuck another under, just cover
that entire placement stitch. OK. Once you've done that, you're going to
then take it back to your machine. If you want. You can put
some water-soluble topping on top, stitch out the rest of the tack down line. OK. Again, it's just like
the same outline you did before. Then remove it from your machine. Place it on a flat surface. Remove the topping if you did it and cut away any of the extra fabric that goes beyond
that place or the tactile down. All right. Once you've done that,
give it a good pressing. About ten seconds is all it needs. I like to
do that with a dry iron. Then take it back to your machine and
stitch that those fun decorative details. All right. You'll continue that process
until the entire thing is done. And well, what a work of art
you have just created. Take a look at these pictures.
Oh, my goodness. Look at what is in these photographs. It's gorgeous, isn't it? This is something that is a true lifestyle
piece for your home. It's just going to up your home game with the beautiful decor that you can create
with your embroidery machine. I absolutely love the look. And I think you will, too. You know, if this is your first time,
trying collage applique' you know, and you're going... "I'm not sure if that's for me. " Well, you could certainly do one piece of fabric down like a normal
appliqué piece would be. But I want to encourage you to jump
right in and try something you've never done before
and do collage applique'. All right. So that's one look to it
with the design centered in the pillow,
in fact, in these pictures right here. We actually used the nine
by 14 size design onto the pillow blink. And as you can see, we centered it. But I want you to take a look
at your directions in the very back of each
set of directions. You're actually going to have some different ideas
for various placements on your pillow. So if you want your your pillow,
maybe in the right hand corner or maybe is a smack in the center,
you want it lower, you want it maybe somewhere
entirely different. There are some suggestions in the back of your directions,
as you see in these pictures here. We've done it all different ways. Here's another look at where we took
the smaller size. This is a five by seven size and we put it in the bottom left hand
corner of this pillow blank. Isn't that gorgeous, by the way? Oh, that's our gray linen.
Hello. Blank here. We took a little bit
larger as the fabric design. And I think this
might have been the six by 10 size. And we just put it in the bottom right
hand corner. And that one. And this is on our missed
linen pillow cover. And then this one is on our Navy color. And look how beautiful that turned out. Right smack in the center
of this lumbar pillow. So lots of ideas and we cannot wait
to see what you do with it. Now, bless this nest was not
the only design found on this CD. There are two additional designs. I'm going to go back here to find them
for you, because you've got to see. There are some home designs
and some more floral designs, I'm going to place them right there
as I grab the next one. Stay with me here. You're going to love it. Look at this one. We took that same pillow plank cover and then did this
beautiful floral collage on both sides. OK, I'm going to toss that. There we go. And here we took
again, the same floral design, but did it in a different size and
we put it on the lumbar pillow instead. But be still my heart. Look at these golds
and yellows that are blending together. It is gorgeous. And then we've got,
of course, that extra little machine embroidery designs
that even extend beyond the applique'. It's just so beautiful and stunning. And one of those things
that you're going to be very proud of to show off in your home. So that's another pillow design. And then let's take
a look at the home design. Even with these letters,
take a look at that. Oh, my goodness. We've got the beautiful leaves here. We've got some images
to show you as well. Take a look. Isn't it gorgeous? And my favorite.
I'm going to grab it right here. Stay with me. Is. The home on the 18 inch pillow,
I believe this is 18 or 20 inch. This is the mint mist linen
and oh my goodness, that looks like it was just one
piece of fabric, doesn't it? But it's not. It's not. It is all kinds of collage,
yellows going on with a beautiful green greenery below it. So just gorgeous stuff. I just want to give you that,
you know, you can do this pep talk and tell you that, you know, if you jump
right into something that you've never, never done before,
it can be a whole lot of fun. And I encourage you to check out
Emma's Collage Pillows. Thank you for joining me today,
everyone. Have fun. And I can't wait to see
what you're going to make. Thanks.
