Create this patriotic wall hanging to display in your home! Plus this project is great for practicing attaching buttons with your Baby Lock machine.
Download the project instructions here.
Materials:
- Neutral Thread in Top
- Neutral Thread in Bottom
- 80/12 needle
- 50+ buttons various sizes
- Jute cord (optional)
- Blue Star Fabric
- (3) Red Plaid Fabric Pieces
- (2) Red Plaid Fabric Pieces
- Fusible Batting
- (2) Binding Strips
- Backing
- Top Background Fabric
- Wooden or Metal Star (optional)
Tools:
Steps:
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Layer backing batting and top background fabric. Iron and fuse to batting.
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Using a fabric marking pen mark center line across the 22” fabric background piece.
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Line up the bottom of one 16 ½” strip to the drawn line. Stitch in place with straight stitch or zig zag.
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Repeat for all strips leaving 1” between each strip aligning the right sides.
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Align star fabric to upper left corner and stitch around.
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Setup sewing machine for button sew on step:
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Select button sewing stitch.
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If your machine does not have this stitch select zig zag.
- Drop feed dogs for 0 stitch length.
- Set stitch width to 3.5 it may need adjusting for holes in button.
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Stitch button on in open space between sewn strips.
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Trim the edges and bind as desired.
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Add wooden or painted star with jute. (optional)
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Tip: Add Fray Check to your buttons!