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This is for a friend at my day-job for her first Granddaughter. I played with the monogram function in the Bernina embroidery software to create her monogram. The little curlques around her monogram and birthdate are also from the monogram function. The center square is flat minkee and I used a piece of the aqua film topping to keep the pile of the minkee in place for the embroidery. Once the embroidery is done the film is very easy to remove. The remainder of the blocks are flannel prints that I found when we were at the coast in November. I found a cute stitch on the 830 and I used that to stitch around the finished edge. I forgot the number but thought the curlee stitch matched the circles and dots in all the fabrics! There's so many new stitches on the 830 that I've told myself to look for a new stitch to use instead of the old faithful straight stitch, when possible. I'll take this to Penny tomorrow and know she'll love it!

Now, don't you love the beautiful embroidered ribbon on the towel below? Not! It's really a strip of this beautiful striped Christmas fabric that we have at the store. If you don't have a yard or so of this I would definitely recommend adding it to your list. There are various striped patterns and it's so easy to make yourself a strip of faux ribbon! Pick the stripe you want to use and then line up the 1/4" with the line to be the finished edge of your ribbon and using your rotary cutter you'll have the perfectly straight edge. Continue the length needed and then repeat for the other side. Then using your iron you need to press that new 1/4" seam to the back side taking care to keep the pressed edge straight! This fabric actually has a gold metallic line I used for my finished edge so I used gold metallic thread to sew it to my towel! The stitches just blended in with the fabric. Of course using a thread color from the colors in the design would be wonderful as well!

I just thought it was very beautiful fabric and has so many ways it can be used to show it off!