Australian Homespun - June 2018

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Fuse the remaining fusible-

web shapes to the wrong side

of your selected fabrics. Yvonne used

a dark brown print for the wheels,

a light brown print for the handle

and assorted fabrics for the four

hearts. Cut them out on the lines.

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Put the appliqué mat or baking

paper over the complete design

on the Pattern Sheet. Arrange the

shapes for the pram on the mat,

aligning them with the lines on the

Pattern Sheet and overlapping the

shapes as required. Position the wheel

rim shapes, but not the central hubs

• these are attached later. When you’re
  happy with the position of the shapes,
  fuse them together with a hot iron.

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When the shapes have cooled,

carefully peel the assemblage

from the appliqué mat or baking

paper. Position it, glue side down,

so that the left edge of the hood and

pram body are 1^11 ⁄ 4 in inside the left

edge of the white background fabric.

Fuse it in place.

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Fuse a square of stabiliser

behind the design. Thread

the top of the machine with a colour

to match one of the fabrics and put

bobbin thread in the bobbin. Set up

the machine for blanket stitch about

2.5 x 2.5mm in size. (If you don’t have

that stitch, you could use a 2 x 2mm

zigzag stitch or blanket stitch by

hand with one strand of matching

embroidery thread.)

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Work blanket stitch by

machine around all the shapes

using threads to match the fabrics.

Aim to have the straight part of the

stitch sitting along the edge of the

fabric shape with the horizontal bites

going into the appliqué fabric. To

turn curves, stop with the needle

down on the outside of the shape,

lift the foot and rotate the fabric a

small amount each time. For corners,

just rotate it once 90 degrees. Yvonne

added radiating lines of triple straight

stitch on the pram hood to indicate

fold lines.

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For the spokes of the wheels,

use the same thread colour as

for the wheels and set the machine

for triple straight stitch if you have

it. Sew the four lines across the

space, then appliqué the hubs to

the centres, covering where the lines

cross. Set the blanket stitch size

to 2 x 2mm for the hubs and hearts.

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Position the four hearts as

shown in the photograph

and appliqué them in place. Yvonne

recommends leaving the

backstitching of the string until after

the quilting so it is uppermost.

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Remove the stabiliser by tearing

it away gently from the back of

the work. Take the thread ends to the

back and tie them off neatly. Trim the

appliqué panel to measure 9^1 ⁄ 2 in square

with the design centred.

FRONT ASSEMBLY

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For Border 1, sew the 1^1 ⁄ 8 x9^1 ⁄ 2 in

print fabric strips to the top and

bottom edges of the appliqué panel

and press the seams outwards. Then

join the 1^1 ⁄ 8 x10^3 ⁄ 4 in strips to the left

and right edges and press as before.

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Sew the^7 ⁄ 8 x10^3 ⁄ 4 in white strips

to the top and bottom edges

and the^7 ⁄ 8 x11^1 ⁄ 2 in white strips to

the left and right edges, pressing

the seams towards Border 1 this time.

Pram wheel detail

Appliquéd hearts and string detail

Diagram 3

Diagram 4

Square Rectangle Rectangle Square

Square Square Rectangle Rectangle Square Square

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PROJECT