{"id":5422,"date":"2010-01-16T23:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T04:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2014-12-29T01:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T06:08:53","slug":"heart-swag-baby-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/16\/heart-swag-baby-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Swag Baby Shawl & Free MCS Zig Zag Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wing needle fil tire’ hearts and floral swag are from Fil Tire’ and Fancywork Combinations machine embroidery collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I make a lot of Swiss flannel\u00c2\u00a0baby blankets. They are easy, they always fit and they make me so happy when I see our grandbabies wrapped up all snug and pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 Many were made for baby gifts and young mothers are always very pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 Another reason that I’ve made so many is that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taught many classes making Swiss flannel blankets and each class project must be a little different from the others.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here is another of those sweet, cozy wraps.<\/p>\n

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Wing needle fil tire’ hearts and floral swag are from Fil Tire’ and Fancywork Combinations.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to edge a baby blanket with a trim sturdy enough to hold up to the heavy laundering that these items require. My three favorites are the English lace shown here and another English lace show in the\u00c2\u00a0second photo. It is almost like a very delicate faux crochet. Not only can both of these laces\u00c2\u00a0endure countless, rigorous\u00c2\u00a0cycles in the washer and dryer, but also they are not too delicate for the wing needle used for pinstitching.<\/p>\n

The machine embroidery design is a pair of fil tire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hearts joined with a floral swag. The Swiss flannel is wonderful for wing needle work and the hearts stitch out beautifully with 80 wt. Maderia Cotona thread. The design is from Fil Tire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Fancywork Combinations<\/em> by Suzanne Sawko and me.<\/p>\n

The swag is a perfect setting for a name or monogram, which all mothers seem to like.\u00c2\u00a0 Depending on\u00c2\u00a0 the timing of the baby shower, I have sometimes given blankets like the first photo and then embroidered the name when it is chosen.<\/p>\n

In the previous post, as well as a few others, I have mentioned Brother’s My Custom Stitch<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 (MCS) program.\u00c2\u00a0 As you might guess from its name, it allows you to design or copy a stitch.\u00c2\u00a0 It goes into\u00c2\u00a0the machine memory and can be called up at any time and even altered\u00c2\u00a0for length.<\/p>\n

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note zig zag feather stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

The zig zag feather stitch that I designed has been so useful to me.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks especially nice done in 30 wt. cotton thread.\u00c2\u00a0 It is shown on the Blossom Basket Blouse<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and T-Bonnet post<\/a>. If any readers have a Brother machine with this option and would like to have this stitch, I would be happy to e-mail\u00c2\u00a0it\u00c2\u00a0to you.\u00c2\u00a0 Just post your request as a comment. The baby shawl does have some color, but it is basically white, suitable, I hope, for my White Wednesday<\/a> post at Faded Charm.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out all the lovely white eye candy there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I make a lot of Swiss flannel\u00c2\u00a0baby blankets. They are easy, they always fit and they make me so happy when I see our grandbabies wrapped up all snug and pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 Many were made for baby gifts and young … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,76,28,18],"tags":[422,1062,1056,423,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32528,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/32528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}