Little Pink House Tutorial

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Little Pink House Tutorial (Wool Felt Appliquein Hoop Frame)

Melissa fromCheckout GirlandLittle Pink Houseshares her house hoophow-to today. Read herintro, browse through her fantastic shop, and then

grab some felt and get to work!

From Melissa:

This hoop, with its little pink house and garden of wool felt flowers is an

excellent way to use up felt scraps if, like me, you have drawers full. (If

you dont have drawers full of scraps, then this project is an excellent way

to make some for future use!)

Materials: 7 wooden embroidery hoop

Linen fabric to fit hoop with approximately 2 inches overhang all around

(Ive used a creamy-beige linen, but this project looks great with a sky-

blue background as well. Cotton works, too.)

Felt scraps (I use wool felt or wool-blend felt exclusively in my projects

because the look is rich and lustrous and the felt never pills. You can, of

course, use whatever felt you have on hand.)
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Thread and/or embroidery floss (either will do). You can use a single

thread color (like white) for the entire project or match your thread to each

piece of felt appliqu. (I have used green to attach all my flower pieces.)

Wool Hoop Template (This is optional, as you can freehand this project if

you wish.)

Tools:

Sharp scissors

One or two straight pins

Hand sewing or embroidery needle

Pinking shears

Tacky glue

Ready?

The House:

1. Stretch your linen on the hoop, and alternate tightening the hoop and

pulling the fabric taut until you have a nice, smooth, drum-like surface on

which to work.

2. Using the templates, cut your house piece (pink) and your roof piece

(gray), along with all your window pieces (the pink background for the

dormer and all the white pieces for the glass).

3. Pin your house piece

so that its centered left to

right and approximately 1

and inch from the top

of the hoop frame.

4. Use a simple, running stitch to attach the house piece to the linen,

taking care to make your stitches small and as even as possible.

5. Pin your roof piece so it overlaps the house piece and sits

approximately inch from the top of the hoop frame.
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6. Use the running stitch, again, to attach the felt roof to the linen.

7. Because the window

pieces are small, you

wont pin them before yousew. Position the pink

dormer piece so its

centered left-to-right and

top-to-bottom on the gray

roof piece, and attach the

dormer to the roof using a

small, neat whipstitch.

8. Repeat this process for the dormer glass (white), centering it inside the

pink piece.

9. Position a window piece inch from the left edge of the pink house

piece and approximately inch from the roofs bottom edge, and attach

with a whipstitch. Repeat for the remaining window.

10. With white thread or one or two

strands of white embroidery floss and

using a back stitch, create stripes

from left to right across the pink house

piece, approximately 1/3 inch apart.

(Note: for much of the embroidered

detail in my work, I use cotton thread

doubled up and knotted off at the end,

creating a double strand. For larger

details that I want to stand out more

boldly, I use two strands ofembroidery floss doubled in the same

manner to create a four-strand

thickness. Whew. Thats a lot of

math.)


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11. With black thread or

one or two strands of

black embroidery floss,

use a backstitch to tracethe outside of each white

window piece and to

create a crossed/pane

effect inside each

window.

The finished house.

The Flowers & Petals:

12. Now for the fun part!

Using your desired colors

of scrap felt, cut circles

that vary in size from a bit

smaller than a dime to a

bit larger than a quarter.

(You can cut these

freehand, use

thetemplates Ive

included, or even trace

coins if you like!) Some of

these will be the petalspart of the flower and
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others will be the centers,

so you can experiment,

before attaching to the

linen, with differentconfigurations and color

combinations, trimming

pieces to fit as necessary.

I made sixteen flowers, so

I needed 32 circles, but I

always make loads, and I

think you should, too! You

will also need to cutapproximately 8 leaf

shapes from green felt.

(Ive included

a templates, but these are

fairly easy to cut

freehand.)

13. You can use the photo of the

finished hoop as a model or

experiment to your hearts content

with the placement of your circles.

Attach each petals circle to the

background with a small, neat,

running stitch, until all your petals

circles are in place.

14. Create stems for the

flowers that flank the

house, using green

thread or floss and a

backstitch.

15. Attach a center circle

inside each petals circle

using a small, neat

whipstitch.
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16. Attach leaves to your

stems and in other nooks

and crannies around the

garden, using greenthread or floss and a

backstitch. (Ive begun

the stitching at the inside

point of the leaf and

worked my way out,

stopping shy of the other

end point of the leaf.)

17. At this point, your appliqu is

complete (Good job!), and all that

remains is to secure the back before

hanging. I like to trim some of the

excess fabric to make gluing easier.

Then lay the hoop on your work

surface so that back is facing up and

run a bead of glue around the insidehoop. (Tacky glue works fine, or you

can use a glue specifically made for

use with fabric and wood.) Using

your thumbs, smooth the fabric down

over the inside hoop, all around the

edge, affixing the fabric to the inner

hoop. Sometimes I have to go

around the hoop with my thumbs twoor three times to smooth and affix

the fabric properly.


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18. Once the glue has dried, use your

pinking shears to carefully trim excess

fabric, cutting as close as possible to

the hoop.

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