Fabric bowls are back! But this time they are embroidered completely in the embroidery hoop! Check out the entire process on this video.
The Anita Goodesign Reverse-A-Bowl embroidery collection contains 20 designs including two blank designs to add your own designs to or just let the fabric do the talking. Designs include a flip-n-sew version for a fabric pieced bowl and and other very creative designs. This is one of the Anita Goodesigns “Project” collections where everything is completed in the hoop! Peltex interfacing in added under the fabric to give the bowl’s stiff sides. Yet Peltex is still soft enough to be about to turn the bowl inside out to show off its other color. You could even have two holidays sewn on one bowl. Just flip it with the seasons!
Taking one of the designs from the Anita Goodesign Reverse-A-Bowl collection, we selected blue for both sides of the bowl and added silver thread for the fleur de lis design on six pentagons and the center hexagon.
This past week, we hosted three sessions of the Anita Goodesign Fabric Bowl workshops (see all the pictures below). Instead of making kits, we let each person select their own bowl fabrics upon arrival. As you can see by the finished collection of bowls, the possibilities are endless! We noticed a lot of fall color combinations and long with Christmas and Halloween. Wouldn’t this make a great candy bowl for the little tricker-treaters? Thank you to everyone who attended. Your bowls all turned out beautiful!
Stabilizer Tip: Instead of cutting stabilizer into squares, cut a 1 1/2 – 2 yard length. Working from the right to left edge, begin hooping the stabilizer at the furthest right edge. After the design is complete, trim the design away from the stabilizer. Since this has Peltex interfacing it is a bit hard to hoop through the previous design. If it had been a design such as free standing lace, I would have waited to trim the stabilizer until a third design was completed.
We even heard one student comment that, “embroidering these fabric bowls is a whole lot easier than when we used to have to satin stitch around every piece multiple times.” What a time saver! And you could be doing something else while the pieces are embroidering. Double projects in half the time.
These Anita Goodesign Reverse-A-Bowls embroidery designs could easily be adapted to school colors, wedding colors, a simple teacher gift or a bowl to hold seasonal fruit to give to a neighbor. Keep it full of candy on your office desk and sit back and wait for the ohhhs and ahhhs from co-workers.
Take the “blank” bowl shapes and add your own embroidery designs around the bowl or down in the center on just the hexagon shape.
To create the template to cut the Peltex shapes, embroider the first color of the design which will be an outline on cut-away stabilizer. Cut along the stitching line for the exact shape needed to precut the Peltex pieces. You will need both the center hexagon shape and the side piece shape.
Anita Goodesign Reverse-A-Bowl embroidery CD’s can be ordered by clicking here.
