Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Machine Embroidery Tutorial

Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Machine Embroidery Tutorial

February is National Embroidery Month! Start stitching your winter machine embroidered projects with our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Mini Wall Quilt Machine Embroidery Tutorial by the Stitch it! Sisters.

Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 202, Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes!

Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 202, Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes with hosts Deanna Springer and Denise Abel – real-life sisters from Team Nancy Zieman Productions! In this video, Stitch it! Sisters share how to turn your embroidery sewing machine into a quilting machine – with quilt making techniques borrowed from traditional paper piecing.

Then, head over to ShopNZP.com and purchase our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Bundle Box by the Stitch it! Sisters! Each Quick Quilting in the Hoop Winter Snowflakes Bundle Box includes our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop — Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book with full-color step-by-step instructions for three projects, complete with downloadable embroidery design files, quilting cotton Shades fabric cuts by Riley Blake Designs, quilt backing, binding, and Pellon® Fleece Batting – to make our Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt using 5″, 6″, or 8″ quilt blocks – available exclusively at ShopNZP.com!

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Creating accurate and consistent quilt blocks, in multiple sizes, is easier than ever with an embroidery machine. First-time quilters and seasoned quilters alike will enjoy precise piecing — with every quilt block — when combining embroidery and block piecing with our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection Book and Embroidery Design Files. 

Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt

Find additional projects – to piece with your embroidery machine – in Team NZP’s Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book available exclusively at ShopNZP.com!

Winter Snowflakes Wall Quilt

Winter Snowflakes Machine Quilted Beverage Coasters

Then, head over to ShopNZP.com and purchase our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Bundle Box by the Stitch it! Sisters! Each Quick Quilting in the Hoop Winter Snowflakes Bundle Box includes our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book along with everything you’ll need to make our Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt – available exclusively at ShopNZP.com! – you’ll supply the stabilizer and thread.

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SHOP our Books & Patterns and Exclusive Bundle Boxes at ShopNZP.com

Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 202, Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes!

Watch the Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes at ShopNZP.com Program 202, Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes. In this video, the Stitch it! Sisters share how to make our New! Winter Snowflakes Wall Hanging within the hoop of an embroidery machine! See step-by-step how to prepare and cut fabrics, piece quilt blocks in the hoop, and add winter snowflake embroideries – with our new Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection Book and Embroidery Designs.

Tools & Supplies: 

• Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Bundle Box
• Isacord Embroidery Thread
• Fusible Polymesh Cut Away Stabilizer
• Clover’s Mini Iron II “The Adapter”
• Chrome Embroidery Needles, Size 90/14
• Chrome Quilting Needles, Size 90/14
• Silicone Hoop Mat
• Clover’s Fabric Folding Pen
• Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
• 1/2″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
• 1″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
• 6-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ Square Quilting Ruler
• 1/4″ Quilting Foot Low Shank
• Edge Joining Foot Low Shank
• Tailor’s & Quilter’s Clapper
• Quilter’s Starch Savvy
• Perfect Embroidery Press Cloth
  

  

See how easy it is to turn your embroidery sewing machine into a quilting machine with techniques borrowed from paper piecing. Creating accurate and consistent quilt blocks, in multiple sizes, is easier than ever with an embroidery machine. First-time quilters and seasoned quilters alike will enjoy precise piecing — with every quilt block — when combining embroidery and block piecing with our Quick Quilting in the Hoop — Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection Book and Embroidery Design Files

The piecing of the Square Within a Square Quilt Blocks and Square on Point Quilt Blocks is stitched on a fusible stabilizer, assuring precise piecing. Piece a quilt without being a quilter! Embellishing quilt blocks couldn’t be easier with the included snowflake embroidery designs. Snowflakes are pre-merged within quilt block embroidery designs and are ready to embroider! Or choose one of the included machine quilting motifs, and quilt all layers in the hoop for the look of free-motion quilting.

The Quick Quilting in the Hoop — Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book includes 26 embroideries in three sizes; some of the embroidery designs are for piecing, while others are for quilting! The embroideries are found in a downloadable link included with the purchase of The Quick Quilting in the Hoop — Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book at ShopNZP.com.

• • Eleven piece in-the-hoop Square Within a Square Quilt Blocks and Square on Point Quilt Blocks quilt block designs featuring optional snowflake embroideries.
  • Four free-motion inspired quilting designs, full snowflakes, and half snowflakes.
  • Nine snowflake embroideries.
  • Plus, each of the 26 designs is included in three sizes – for a total of 78 designs:
    • 78 designs: 26 (5″ x 5″), 26 (6″ x 6″), 26 (8″ x 8″).
  • Includes:
    • Embroidery design files.
    • Thread color sequence chart (PDF.)
    • Printable templates for each design, 100% actual size (PDF.)
    • 10 embroidery formats: DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, SHV, VIP, VP3.

How to Piece our Quilt Block in an Embroidery Hoop

Here’s an overview of our techniques. There are more details shown in our Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection Book. Each quilt block design is available in three sizes: The larger the block, the large the embroidery hoop size needed:

• 5″ block requires an 5″ x 5″ hoop or larger
• 6″ block requires a 6″ x 6″ hoop or larger
• 8″ block requires a 8″ x 8″ hoop or larger

• Print an optional template from collection files for the chosen design. On printed template, notice the different sections of the block and numbers within. These numbers indicate the piecing sequence.

• Select and Prepare Fabrics for Square Within a Square Blocks with Snowflake accents: The most dramatic results are achieved by selecting assorted fabric of light, medium, and dark shades.
• – Snow White Shades— center block squares.
  – Cobalt Blue Shades — inner block triangles.
  – Peacock Aqua Shades — outer block triangles.

• Prepare all fabrics using spray starch or a starch alternative. This step preshrinks, removes wrinkles, and makes fabric crisp to allow for nice sharp folds.

Preshrink fabrics by steaming and pressing and steaming and pressing a second time. Stabilize fabrics for sewing by pressing and starching fabrics with June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy — press and starch, press and starch.

• Cut Fabrics for Square Within a Square Blocks: Note: 5″ fabric squares work perfectly with all three sizes of the Quick Quilting in the Hoop Block’s inner and outer block triangles. Size of block determines if 5″ fabric squares are cut in half (1/2-square triangles) or in quarters (1/4-square triangles).
• Using a rotary cutter, ruler, and mat, cut Block fabrics by cutting one 5″ wide crosswise strips for each of the three fabric colors.

• Sub-cut 5″ wide crosswise strips into 5″ fabric squares.

• For 5″ blocks, cut 5″ fabric squares point to point diagonally in both directions creating 1/4-square triangles for both inner and outer block triangles:

• Cut fabric squares for block center squares (Section 1) according to block size: For 5″ blocks, cut 3-1/4″ fabric squares:
• – 3 fabric squares of Snow White Shades.

• Set up the sewing machine with embroidery unit and appropriate embroidery foot.
• Insert a new Schmetz Chrome Embroidery Needle, Size 90/14, and thread machine with cotton quilting thread – for piecing.

• Import and select the Quick Quilting in the Hoop Winter Snowflake Block design.
• Use a neutral thread color that works well with fabrics for the piecing sequence. For embroidering numbered “Map stitching”, choose a slightly darker thread so that you can see the stitching on the stabilizer — the numbered “Map stitching” will be hidden within the seams of the block. (We are using black thread for easy viewing.)

Hoop a section of Fusible Stabilizer; fusible side up.

Use the dime Silicone Hoop Mat to help hold the hoop while hooping. Silicone mat with printed grid provides a non-skid hooping surface for successful hooping – on any table surface!

• Embroider first stitching sequence, the numbered “Map stitching”, directly on hooped stabilizer … the outline and sections of quilt block plus numbers 1-9.

• Section #1 — Place block center square, Fabric Color #1 (Snow White), over section marked #1, right side up, with fabric square extending equally beyond stitched lines.
• Fuse fabric to stabilizer with Clover’s Mini Iron.

Add an ironing surface under hooped stabilizer by slipping a potholder under the hoop. Slip potholder under hoop and press. Stitch a long length of fabric to potholder … as a reminder to remove potholder before resuming stitching!

• Embroider next stitching sequence, which stitches down Fabric Color #1.

• Section #2 — Align one inner triangle, Fabric Color #2 (Cobalt Blue), right sides together, along stitched line facing section #2; center fabric triangle.

• Embroider next stitching sequence, stitching fabric triangle to block.
• Use pointed end of Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner to lightly hold fabric triangle in place while stitching.

Using Fabric Folding Pen, apply marking solution along stitched seam. Clover’s Fabric Folding Pen‘s marking solution ensures flat and crisp fabric folds.

• Fold fabric triangle right side up and finger press.
• Press with Clover’s Mini Iron from triangle’s folded edge and continue to press towards triangle’s point to eliminate wrinkles.

• Embroider next stitching sequence, stitching down fabric triangle.

• Section #3 through #5 — Repeat above process, following numbered “Map Stitching” piecing sequence on stabilizer until all inner triangle fabric pieces (Fabric Color #2 (Cobalt Blue) have been stitched in place.

• Section #6 — Align one outer triangle, Fabric Color #3 (Peacock Aqua), right sides together, along stitched line facing section #6; center fabric triangle.

• Embroider next stitching sequence, stitching fabric triangle to block.

• Using Fabric Folding Pen, apply marking solution along stitched seam.

• Press with Clover’s Mini Iron from triangle’s folded edge and continue to press towards triangle’s point.

• Embroider next stitching sequence, stitching down fabric triangle.

• Section #7 through #9 — Repeat above process, following numbered “Map Stitching” piecing sequence on stabilizer until all outer triangle fabric pieces (Fabric Color #3 (Peacock Aqua) have been stitched in place.

• Using 1/2″ Sewer’s Fix-It Tape, tape overlapping seam edges before stitching final thread color; taping approximately 1/8″ away from stitching lines.

Economize on stabilizer — rehoop stabilizer with previously pieced block still attached to stabilizer – just outside hoop.

• Repeat instructions to create one additional Square Within a Square block and one Square on Point Block.

Trim Quilt Blocks:

• Remove stabilizer/pieced block from hoop. Remove Sewer’s Fix it Tape.
• Position block on cutting mat and align 1/8″ lines on 6-1/2″ square ruler to two corner edges of outer perimeter stitched square. Trim blocks square with rotary cutter.

• Rotate block, align 1/8″ lines on 6-1/2″ square ruler to opposite two corner edges, and trim blocks square with rotary cutter.
• Note: Trimming blocks now will later assure the piecing stitching lines will be hidden within 1/4″ seam allowances.

Seam Blocks:

• Set machine for conventional sewing.
• Attach a 1/4″ Quilting Foot, a Patchwork Foot, or set needle for 1/4″ seam allowance.

• Align block pairs, right sides together, stitch with a 1/4″ seam.

• Bind the table runner using Nancy Zieman’s Easy quilt binding instructions.

There are more design options to piece with your embroidery unit in our Quick Quilting in the Hoop — Winter Snowflakes Embroidery Collection and Book.

Stitch it! Sisters Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Tools & Supplies: 

• Exclusive Quick Quilting in the Hoop: Winter Snowflakes Mini Wall Quilt Bundle Box
• Isacord Embroidery Thread
• Fusible Polymesh Cut Away Stabilizer
• Clover’s Mini Iron II “The Adapter”
• Chrome Embroidery Needles, Size 90/14
• Chrome Quilting Needles, Size 90/14
• Silicone Hoop Mat
• Clover’s Fabric Folding Pen
• Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
• 1/2″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
• 1″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
• 6-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ Square Quilting Ruler
• 1/4″ Quilting Foot Low Shank
• Edge Joining Foot Low Shank
• Tailor’s & Quilter’s Clapper
• Quilter’s Starch Savvy
• Perfect Embroidery Press Cloth