The Simply Sweet Mat for December celebrates the centerpiece of your holiday décor – the Christmas Tree! Beautiful textures within the wool add interest and variety in this easy-to-make kit. It’s then finished with hand-embroidery accents to create glistening garlands, stars, ornaments and holly. Mat finishes to approximately 12-1/2" in diameter.
Products Used:
Callie Del - 100% Cotton Woven Fusible Interfacing - 22" x 1yd - Highly Recommended for stabilizing wool, reducing stretching & warping for both machine and hand embroidery; 1/2 yd required.
Wafer 1 Lightbox 9" x 12-1/2" - Extremely helpful for tracing appliqué shapes.
Wool Pressing Mat - Very helpful for pressing your wool appliqué.
Pressing Sheet - 11" x 17" - Extremely helpful for assembling appliqué units accurately.
Wonder Clips - Extremely helpful for holding your project together when stitching around the edges
Heat N Bond Lite - Very helpful for bonding wool appliqué without added weight.
Kai Embroidery Scissors - Great for precise wool fabric trimming.
Schmetz Super Nonstick Needles 100/16 - Perfect needle for machine stitching through multiple layers of wool.
Shabby Fabrics #22 Chenille Needles - Perfect needle for hand appliquéing your wool.
Embroidery and Crazy Quilt Stitch Tool Book - Helpful for learning the stitches that are used; for right or left-handed use.
Shabby Fabrics Embellishing Needles - Helpful for hand stitching embroidery details.
Thread Magic - Great for taming unruly thread.
FriXion Pen - Very helpful for marking placement & embroidery.
