Organizational Journey with Sue Spargo's Embellished Yazzi Wallet

[Music] [Applause] [Music] I am feeling powerful today and the reason being is I came to a conclusion I am not getting a lot finished because I'm not organized and so I have decided to become more organized and this revelation came to me when I was looking for something in the stash closet and for a friend of mine who's coming by on Friday and when I was looking looking looking I found all kinds of things that needed to get done and one of those things was this case flower needle keeper from Sioux Spargo yeah Suze Fargo's a dear person I am a great fan of hers and I know I'm not her best student because I kind of go off on my own thing my own my monkey brain kind of takes over and because I have so much to do I just want to do it my way I can hear that song playing my way okay but I'm not swimming so I found this kit for the Cape flower needle keeper and I said ah this is why I haven't gotten all of my Seuss Pargo plaka the months done it's because I was supposed to have all the organizational tools done first and then I would get him done so I am backing up a bit and I found this kit which I love and I love the Ozzie bags and have have different sized ones around here but this is the a Yazzie wallet stitcher see how it folded up like that and it came with I got it from Sue's website and it came with all of the instructions and the supplies and now I need to put it together but here's where we kind of go our separate ways and the reason being is that I'm a fusing kind of girl yeah yeah so I'm trying to figure out how to fuse my pieces on the back for stitching so I just have everything together and then I came up with this brilliant idea it says to put this piece of wool to pink the edges of this piece of wool so that it won't Ravel as your needle keeper and then I thought oh well I was gonna make a new role which I will do someday but I could actually put this here as instructed and make it an eel keeper too so I had two packages of these if you've ever seen people that make you jealous in Susa Bardot's class that has everything organized oh yeah and they got an eel roll with all the little needle sizes and names labeled on there wolf man people just drive me crazy well I'm gonna be one of those so I'm actually gonna take these labels and sew them not all of them because I don't necessarily use all these different size needles but I'm going to use my favorite ones in here and attach it and then oh because I don't know about you but every time I go to get a needle I you know they're stuck in pin cushions all over the place here and I can't figure out what size or what kind they are I'm trying to look through the little hole going can I see the little eye of that needle so that's what I'm doing today and I will kind of let you watch me as I figure out the process of how I'm gonna get away with this by using fusible so that I can take it with me and stitch it without having to carry all the separate pieces brilliant I know I know okay so hang tight so in trying to make this project a little easier and a shortcut for myself this is not by any means the way Sue teaches and as you know her things are just lovely but it is what I do for the experience of time so I did follow the directions and I pink sheared the little piece of wool that you attach to this needle case which worked out great what I did a little differently than the instructions is I took those little labels because I had two packs of those for a needle roll that had the size needles printed on them and I picked the ones that I use the most and I fused them to my wool and then I stitched around just to hold them on so now I have a little needle Peck organizer in my organizer my organizer is an organizer so now the next step for me is to get the wool onto the outside of this to make it look cute and I am using soft fuse I traced my motifs onto soft fuse from the instructions that were given and now I'm going to fuse my pieces the soft fuse pieces to the wool and cut those out and then decide how I'm going to lay them out on this this is this is going to help me finish all my projects because I'll have everything so organized don't you know okay next step [Music] [Music] [Music] i steam both sides now we need to cut these all up [Music] I'm gonna try something a little different because the last time I have to tell you the challenge let me get this bag out of here the challenge of decorating a Yazzie bag and this is my other yazi bag is actually sewing onto the yazi bag is challenging to say the least so I think what I'm going to try to do is since I use fusible I'm going to fuse the pieces on top and then I'm going to stitch those first I'm gonna do the least amount of stitching to the yazi bag so I'm gonna give that a try so stay tuned for that I think I have figured out a way to make this a little easier when you stitch with these embellishments on yazi bags I'm cutting down half of the struggle and the way that I'm doing this is so this motif because I fused all my pieces together it's supposed to be right here but rather than put it there and be stitching I left the fusible paper the paper part on the very back biggest piece and I fused my little pieces on to it and so now I'm going to peel off the back fusible but before I fuse this if this makes any sense before I fuse this piece onto my yazi bag or wallet which I will have to do in order to stitch this piece to it I am going to do the stitching of all of the other pieces on top of this one while I'm holding it like this and so I'm using some wool thread and I'm just going to tack down oh this is gonna be so much easier than trying to do it while it's attached to the yazi bag and there's still be enough fusible on the back of this the largest piece to make it fit in place I'm using just a wool thread doing a very very tiny tacking stitch and then I'll do some embellishing around it oh but this is so much easier than if this was attached to this and I was having to move this thing all around I don't know why I didn't think of this before but this is working out really slick so normally you'd attach this to the yazi bag and then start stitching and have to kind of go under and up under and hide your stitches but all I'm doing is I'm stitching on top of the motifs that are on top of my piece there's fusible on the back of the whole thing and that is what why I can do this because that fusible is keeping my base piece of wool the flour from getting all stretched out as I'm stitching it and so I have gone around one whole circle with a chain stitch while I'm holding it which is so much easier than if I was having to deal with it stuck or attached to the yazi bag this is I wish I had done this when I did the big bag that was of course I couldn't have done it with that one I actually did make that separate because attaching that piece to the yazi bag what is you know a big problem so doing as much as you can well it's not attached to the a/c bag is better and I'm just doing this chain stitch around the circle's su is all about the embellishing stitches and we certainly love them all I took a little break I went down with my friend to deliver her quilts at the quilt events office and then we went and had lunch at one of the food carts in town that's up-and-coming places to eat in all of Central Oregon and we had a fabulous lunch so now I am back to my project and I am loving on this particular project doing this by not attaching at first to the background piece but stitching some of this down by just holding my little piece and I I think I've discovered some new a new way to do whoa I don't know maybe other people do this but this is like wow so I fused the little green inner leaf to that outer blue leaf and I left the fusible paper on the back of the blue leaf when I did this so it wouldn't stick to my ironing board and then I peeled that paper off to stitch and what I'm finding is by using the fusible which I use soft fuse you know in the tube this this stuff over here soft fuse for those who maybe this is your first time here and it's keeping the wool from fraying as I'm stitching this little piece which is awesome so now I'm just tacking down with some wool thread that has a complementary color onto my background leaf so I am already starting to stitch my leaves which I absolutely love because instead of having them already attached as I said before it's more fun or I should say less of a hassle to stitch then just to pick one little leaf up and do the stitching and so I have three of them done and three to go and all I have done is a little Palestrina knot down the center of the inner leaf and then a running stitch around the outside with the same thread so what I'm going to show you now for a stitch demo is the Palestrina knot which I absolutely love and I'm going to do this on a separate piece of wool that's kind of more contrasting so that you can actually see what is done and I'm gonna do it a little bit bigger so I got my thread got my piece of wall and I'm going to and this by the way is on page 68 of creative stitching Sue's Fargo's book so I'm going to bring my needle up through my piece and I'm going across the wool as if I was going to make the vine or the vein on the leaf and then I'm going to come over however big I want that to be I'm going to take a bite out of the wool just like that and pull it through so that you can see I have a straight line in a and my thread coming out there then I bring this around I bring the thread around and I'm going underneath that's little straight line with my needle and I'm going to pull the thread through there now here's the tricky part the next step to make this Palestrina knot is to take your needle and find that sweet spot between the stitch that was across and the stitch that came over the top so I'm going to go through there so as you can see it's kind of like at a diagonal I'm kind of in that sweet spot between those two threads and then I'm going to make sure that this thread is behind my needle and I'm going to pull it through gently and there's your Palestrina not so when I go to the next one I have my thread I'm going to take a bite of my wall I'm going to pull it through I'm gonna come around and go underneath this and I'm gonna bring that thread through and then I'm going to look for that sweet spot that space between those two threads and there's that sweet spot and then I'm gonna make sure that this thread is behind my needle excuse me and I'm going to pull it through and then I have my second knot it kind of looks like a chain of pearls like that plant that chain of pearls plant with the little ball and so when you go across you're going to have these little pearls with a little space in between and that is a fun stitch it's an outline stitch and you can see if you make the space bigger it gives that kind of a pearl outline now on my little leaf they're very very close but it gives a little texture to the vein on the center of the leaf so that's what I'm doing now finishing up my leaves and then the next step is we will attach all the different motifs I have gotten my outline stitch done on my flower and now all that's left is to do the outside of the flower and I'll have to do that one it's actually attached to the yazi bag so I have that I have my stem and my leaves and then we're all set to actually embellish the Gazi Bank so stay tuned hey so I have it's thunder and lightning outside again oh geez I'm beginning to attach my motifs to the Yesi wallet and right now I'm using wool thread and I'm just doing a tacking stitch going sideways just in the very top layer of the wallet just to get it attached to the wallet and I'm kind of making little perpendicular stitching bites and then I'll go back and do the challenging part which is making some bull yawns around the upper flour it's a little more challenging when you are stitching attaching to an entirely pre-made wallet or bag and so you just have to give yourself a little bit of grace and leave the judgment at the door after all this wallet is going to help me get organized to get my Sue's Fargo stitching done so if I can't accomplish this I am in deep trouble when it comes to my walk at mutts and I'm just taking a tiny bite of the upper layer of the wallet because I don't want to go through the backside because I don't want the stitching to show it's going fairly well fairly well I think before I attack this whole thing down I want to put a little beach arm right there so I think I'll do that when I can still kind of get underneath there luckily for me I remembered that I wanted to put that little beach arm because after all this is the Beehive on my little wallet and so a subscriber had sent me this little pack of beach arms and so I'm using one on the middle of my flower there and I just love it and so now I'm still tacking down around the flower with just a slip stitch and I tucked the ribbon under I found a great ribbon to use for this project because I melted the other one when I tried to iron it on here live and learn you know him my girlfriend that came over said yeah that's that's not that's not right this is a a blend of some kind of ribbon but it was really cool it's just when the iron hit it it just shriveled up like an old woman so I'm continuing to slip stitch around not going through the whole wallet to attach this flower to the outside I'm keeping one finger on the bottom side so I can feel if I accidentally poke through the wallet because I'm only wanting to slip stitch it to the top and not puncture one of the bags on the backside it gets a little bit on the hard side there we go well I've got the flower tapped down so now maybe a bullion stitch around the top but I'll have to decide that so I think the next step for me is to slip stitch the stem down and then I can attach my leaves I was able to get my Reed's whip stitch down this is the thing is I did not have any wool thread that matched my leaves in any of my doughnuts so what I did was I took the next step I went to my embroidery floss and I took two strands of embroidery floss and I whip stitch down those leaves and it was simple when you're doing this kind of project I always keep my hand on the back side I could feel it it's surprisingly easy how I am NOT puncturing through the backside because there's all this plastic here but I'm just kind of doing a perpendicular whip not a perpendicular parallel whip stitch so I can kind of feel the needle from the backside that it's not going through and I whip stitch them all down and now I am doing a back stitch with a heavier thread this is an I chose a number three thread and I think that's actually what it says on the pattern so it's going to be a running stitch a back stitch around the leaves and the reason I'm using a number three is because it will show up more it is a little tougher stitching through this yazi bag because the fabric is naturally matte I don't think they intentionally made it to be embellished so the weave is quite tight and it's a heavy-duty fabric to withstand wear but he or he or she whoever is the person behind the designer bind yazi bag has had no idea what would happen when sue Spargo got ahold of it because she spar goes everything so there I went around one whole leaf with the running stitch and it was easy to bury the knot underneath because the whip stitch I kept kind of a little further apart and loosed what I can tell you is that using fusible on here I was starting to try to fuse my big pieces and my leaves onto this wallet but I could tell that I might have the same problem as I had with that dang ribbon that I might mount my wallet so I didn't use the piece fuse them to this I didn't want to use a hot iron on this wallet but I still liked having the fusible around because it kept the wool from fraying as I was holding the individual pieces and stitching on top of them so I would still use fusible as a stabilizer and then I just really love my little baby there so the next step for me which I won't bore you with is I'm going to do a running stitch I keep saying running stitch oh it's early in the morning back stitch around all of my leaves and then I'm going to see if I am capable of putting a bullion stitch around here and if I am I'll share it with you so I've got my leaves all back stitched with the embellishing stitches and now I'm ready to do the very last stitch I'm going to do which is around the flower and it uses a bullion stitch and a bullion stitch is one of my favorites I've talked about it before I've demoed it aboard before but I will be demoing it again and it is the stitch that you used to make a lot of insects like bees and ladybugs and it is a wrapped stitch and let me see what page on your book if you are a book learner it is that's that this is the one yeah it is on page 94 of your creative stitching book the most important thing about the bullion stitch is that you need to use a millionnaire needle it's reason you use this needle is it's the same circumference around at the head and at the base of the needle and so any kind of wrapped stitch is going to just pull right off and you won't really realize how extremely difficult it is to do a bullion stitch if you're using a regular chenille needle because it's just a hair bigger but boy that wrap just does not want to slide off so the this milliner's needle and I'm using a milliner number one and I kind of went through my thread and I absolutely love how bullion stitches look when it's done with silken and purl which is you can get on sue Fargo's site and it is this one is called morning on this end it's kind of like a variegated purple blue and pink and so I think it'll look really pretty and then I'm gonna be done so let me just say this project is not for the faint of heart yeah and I mean that not in that it's a difficult project the challenge is that you're not stitching on wool or cotton you're stitching on this yazi bag and this is kind of like a hard tightly woven canvas and so you have to what you want it to be you want to be in charge of it it kind of like I started daydreaming when I was doing it and I was thinking wouldn't it be awesome to have a 10th that was all spar goat I mean can you imagine but that's kind of what this is like to stitch on I'm not saying that you should not do it I am saying that when you do do it and you conquer you will be the star of the class so I am hoping when I go to my sous bar go class in Santa Fe I will be whipping out my wallet and someone will say at my table oh and I'm gonna say oh yeah piece of cake Oh cake yeah no so it is a challenge worth meeting that's all I'm saying and I love it so now I've got my last to do no Boyan stitch so we're ready for the tutorial on the bullion stitch and just to give you an idea of the boy on stitch it is what is used as I said before to make that little B it's alternating colors and I usually just bring both colors up and then alternate the needle to complete that it's also what's used to make this rows and around this edge I used a very small bullion so depending on how many wraps will determine how tall your bullion stands up like I said it was on page 94 of creative stitching but now I'm going to demo a bullion I love the silken pearl thread you again have to use a milliner's needle this is a milliner's number one and I have come up from the back my knot is on the back I've come up to the front and then depending on how big I want that bullion to be I'm gonna go I'm gonna go like a maybe an eighth of an inch down and then come up right next to where I went came through from the back so you can see here's where I came through and there's my milliner's needle I'm gonna push that up and then I'm going to determine how tall I want that little bulge to be by how many wraps I do so let's say for this spot I'm gonna do eight reps one two three four five six seven eight I'm going to keep a tight handle on the thread I'm gonna put my thumb over the wraps and I'm going to push them down and then I'm going to just pull that needle through those wraps without letting go this is why you need a milliner's needle because it slides right through those reps and then I'm going to keep pulling the thread and then as I come to the end I just adjust that boullion and you see you've get this nice little and you can stick your needle in there and make it a little bit taller if you want or shorter and then you go down to secure it so there's your bullion stitch so if I want to do the next one I'm going to come up I'm gonna go down right next to where this one ended and come up next to that thread and then I'm gonna do my reps one two three four five six seven eight now you can do however many wraps you want depending on how big you want your boullion and now I'm going to pull that through it slides right through you know once I get to the end I'm gonna go down to the back and there's my second boullion it's like a little pat so that is the bullion stitch and that is what I used to complete my wallet so I did a bullion stitch all the way around the edge and I chose a wrap of eight until I got towards the inside of these points and then I went to like a wrap of six but I absolutely love my little wallet it's all ready for me to show off in class I have my supplies basic supplies scissors needle threader the little round circle that helps you pull the nail through my gisle stitch little square so that I can do the drizzle stitch and then I decided to attach a magnet so my magnet is on the inside of this pouch and then that goes on the outside so I have a place to put my and then my labelled needles which I love so there you go that's another one in the can thank you thank you for hanging out with me today and I hope you will give yourself a challenge and make this beautiful [Music] Yesi bag wallet [Music] thanks for watching and be sure to LIKE and 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Keywords: Quilt Roadies, Sue Spargo, Yazzi Bags, Embellished Stitching

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Length: 40min 31sec (2431 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 09 2019