Machine Embroidery

My darling asked for a folding dice tray for an in-person role-playing game they are in. I happened to have this delightful machine embroidery design by String Theory Fabric Art. So many fun and nerdy designs!

This is the largest size of the Feature Fabric Appliqué Portable Dice Tray ITH design. I used some gray marine vinyl and some fun dungeon fabric I bought from Spoonflower a couple years ago. The snaps are KAM snaps.

My favorite tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Creative Grids 4.5" x 12.5" Rectangle Quilting Ruler

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
Fiskars 8-inch scissors

Magna-Glide bobbins (absolutely the best for my embroidery machine)

Pellon Stitch-N-Tear

Snaps: KAMsnaps kit (this is the kit I purchased, it includes a rainbow of snap colors and the tools you need to set the snaps)

Machine Embroidered Notebook

Kreative Kiwi has some great embroidery designs. Last week they had a great sale on in-the-hoop notebook covers. I've been eyeing these for a long time. I've made more than a couple notebook covers but I had never made one using my embroidery machine. 

Each step is a hooping, which is a neat way to make something bigger than you embroidery hoop could handle if you were to make all of it in a single hooping.

This pattern even adds the lining in the hoop. The gray fabric is leftover from a quilt I made. 

I used some batting scraps I had from another project. 

Here it is turned and pressed. 

And wrapped around my notebook. This was a great little project. I'm sure I will make a few more of these. The embroidery design comes with four sizes so finding one to fit your notebook is easy.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Creative Grids 6.5" x 24.5" Rectangle Fiskars Rotary Cutter

Creative Grids 4.5" x 12.5" Rectangle Quilting Ruler

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
BLACK+DECKER Classic Steam Iron
Fiskars 8-inch scissors

Juki TL-2010Q

Grabbit Magnetic Pin Cushion

Dritz Craft Pins, 1-3/4-Inch (250-Count)

Pellon E-Z Stitch Tear Away Embroidery Stabilizer

Buried Treasure

This is my student desk. It was built by my father more than 50 years ago. I've had it my entire life. I use it as a dumping station. I've misplaced a book (I'm certain it is somewhere in the house) and this is where I started looking. I went through everything, recycled what I could and put things away. 

I managed to find the desktop, put things into storage, or out to recycles. Now, I can stack different things on this surface. 

I found some great test sews and embroideries. From center top:

• self-drafted foundation paper pieced flying geese
• two versions of the Pokémon Gengar I digitized and stitched out before stitching onto my chosen fabric
• a very poorly digitized machine embroidery of Firefly
• a couple test stitch-outs of a 20-sided die that I digitized
• a notebook cover I drafted and stitched out, it has the cutting measurements written on the pieces

Have you found buried treasures in your creative space?