Cloth Napkins

Step 6 Sew down the deceptive stars.

I then sewed on the stars. You might want to take your machine into account. I have owned an awful lot of machines, and some of the cheaper ones are not very happy to sew through iron on appliqué. This is why I bought the Husqvarna Viking. Part of the demo was that the sales lady sewed straight through a yardstick, and the machine was fine. Of course, this means it can sew through my finger and keep tension, as well, but with the kinds of hell I put my machine through, it only seems fair.

I also used a heavy duty denim needle for this. You may break the lighter ones if you don't. Nothing says fun like flying needle shards.

The machine is threaded with red top thread, to match the stars, and black bottom thread to match the napkins.

Just go slow, and zig zag around the star. It's a lot of stop and go, raising the presser foot, turning, and going again.

Comments

[Caya]

See here is where I'd be handsewing the little things on. I think it would drive me nuts to be so fiddly with machine-sewing the wee little stars.

[HeresyOfTruth]

I am simply much faster on my machine. If I could approach that speed by hand I would have.