In The Hoop Machine Embroidery

Chick / Love Bird

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Fabrics
Always cut your main Body fabric Larger than the hoop you have chosen e.g. for a 8 x 12 hoop cut your fabric
8.5 x 12.5

Always cut your body parts fabric Larger than the Placement Stitch outline by about ½ inch (1.5 cm) to allow
for placement error and seam allowance.

• Body – (2 pieces) low pile Minky/Cotton/Rose/fluffy minky or Fleece

• Wings – (2 pieces) cotton – OR Outer Minky and Inner Cotton
• Head tuft – (2 pieces) – Wool Felt (Craft felt/poly blends will pill!)
• Tail – (2 pieces) Cotton
• Beak – (1 piece) Wool Felt
• Tummy – (1 piece) Cotton backed with Heat n Bond Lite to prevent fraying. Optional - iron/fuse the
cotton/heatnbond piece to 1 piece of craft Felt for more stability. (If using the diamond stitch you will not need
the Heat n Bond backing).

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Supplies
Tearaway stabilizer
Stuffing (polyfil, wool etc.),
Stuffing tool such as an old paint brush,
Needle & sewing thread (for hand sewing)
Scissors
Safe cutting surface
Tape – (e.g. Painter tape) to keep your limbs in place

TIP: If you use thick or loopy fabrics use Water Soluble stabilizer to stop your embroidery foot getting caught!

Embroidery:
This is a Multi Hooping project.

The Wings, Tail, & Head Tuft should be done before the main Body.

Bird ideas: Omit the tail to make a little chick, omit the head tuft to make a ‘general’ bird, omit both and you have a
duck! Make 2 matching ones as ‘Love Birds’ for Valentine’s day!
Wings, Tail , & Head Tuft

Placement Stitch Outline is a line (Step 1

here) stitched onto your stabilizer so you
know where to place your fabric. It can be
done in any color as you will not see it on
the finished product.

TIP: After each Step gets stitched

1. Hoop stabilizer.
2. Stitch Step 1 for Placement Stitch Outline for Parts.
together, Always check that the fabric
does not overlap the Placement Lines
for other parts of the design. If it does
trim it.

3. Remove the Hoop and Turn hoop over. Place once piece of Head Tuft felt over the placement line on
the back of the hoop. Tape in place or use a Temporary Spay Adhesive.
4. Turn right side & place back into machine.
5. Place Head Tuft felt over placement line on top of stabilizer. Run the outline stitch. Use matching
bobbin thread if desired.
6. Place both of your Tail fabrics right sides together and lay over placement line. Stitch step to stitch
together. Trim around it to remove the excess material. This way you won’t be sewing it into your
limb seams by accident ;)
7. Place both of your wing fabrics right sides together and lay over placement line. Stitch step to stitch
together.

Tip: If you are doing the same fabric for the wings and tail do as I did and just cute one large piece of fabric
to cover all 3 placement stitches and run step 3/4 straight after each other .. saves so much time ;)
8. Remove from hoop, remove stabilizer, and carefully trim with 1/8” seams. Snip seams along curves
of the wings to make the curves pop after turning. Snip off the points of the tail making sure not to go
through your stitches and snip up between the tail points (see red tail photo) Turn everything, a
paintbrush helps push out the curves. Do Not Stuff! Iron the wings and tail flat.

9. Take one of your wings, lay it flat on the table with the inner ear facing up. Fold the top corner A over to rest
on B (see above photo as guide). Once happy, tack down the fold 1/8 inch from the edge with sewing machine
or by hand (Optional you can use an iron ;) just so it folds in place). Repeat for the other Wing so you have a
mirror image. (see photo)
Body-

1. Hoop Stabilizer, I used tear away in this project, but cutaway/poly mesh can also be used.
2. Run step 1, for placement stitch. Place one piece of body fabric on stabilizer right side up centered in
hoop. If using loopy fabrics or fur this is where you want to add your Water Soluable Stabilizer to
prevent your embroidery foot from getting caught. Run Step 2 for tacking down your main body fabric.

3. Run placement line for your belly.

4. Place your Fabric over placement line and tack down If doing the Diamond stitch version, trim fabric as
close as possible without snipping the tack down stitchs. Then run the next step for the Diamond Stitch.
 If using the Straight Stitch , Always back your cotton with Heat and Bond and cut 1/4inch from the
stitches. You can iron that on to felt for even more added stability.
No Diamond Stitch for the 4x4 I am afraid, please use the straight stitch & a non fraying material e.g. felt or
minky or back your cotton with Heat n Bond

***This is where you would add a monogram to the tummy ***

1. Stitch the details on the face. TIP: Always pick a high contrasting color for face so it shows up against
the skin tone fabric 
2. Run the placement line for the Beak, Place your Felt over placement line and tack down.
3. Trim around the Beak.

4. Run step for placement lines for the tail, wings and head tuft, I would do this in a different color so you
can see where the placement line is. If you use thick minky it can be very hard to see!
5. Place the tail, wings and head tuft over each placement lines and tack down one by one going in a
counter clockwise rotation. It will start with the tail (can omit for a chick!) … right wing … head tuft
(optional you can omit for a different look!  ) .. ending with the left wing.

TIP: Use painters tape to stop them from wiggling around.

TIP: Slow your machine down if you are using thicker fabrics or when attaching limbs and ears etc
TIP: If you use thick or loopy fabrics use a layer of Water Soluble Stabilizer over the main body before you start
attaching the limbs to stop your embroidery foot getting caught! Simply remove it after all of your limbs are
attached 

Depending on your machines model some larger hooped machines read this step differently. And will
run the placement line followed by the tack down line for each limb speratly in a anti clock wise
direction.

** The second photo is what your finished limb attachment will look like**

6. Make sure that all of the the tail, wings and head tuft are out of the way of the side seams.

7. Lay remaining body piece of fabric over hoop right side down and run final step
8. Remove from hoop and remove stabilizer.
9. Trim with 1/8” to ¼” seam. Leave seam wider near the opening.
10. Clip seams around the curve.
 11. Turn and carefully trim away any excess felt around the beak if you didn’t earlier.
12. Stuff and sew closed the side and the tail using a hidden Ladder stitch. Go to my blog for a tutorial:
http://dollsanddaydreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-close-softies-and-dolls-ladder.html

Tip: If you want your birdie to be resting and not flying simply pin the wings to its side and stitch to body using the same
colored thread (see photo below).

Embellishments

You can add bows on head, buttons and bits of trim to the body! Please remember, anything that is detachable is
not recommended on dolls for children under the age of 3 as they pose a choking hazard.

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