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Shadow Work Swallow Tutorial

Price: $4.00


Did you know you can do shadow work embroidery with your embroidery machine? Want to try it? Check out this sweet tutorial and stitch up a shadow work swallow. The tutorial explains how to use reverse appliqué and a daintily digitized design to create vintage looking embroidery. This design would be perfect for weddings, babies or even tea towels!

The design is sized 2.55″ x 2.71″. For this tutorial, you’ll need a fine cotton fabric such as batiste, voile or handkerchief linen; crisp fabric for the under-appliqué material such as silk organza, cotton organdy or well starched quilt weight cotton; wash-away stabilizer and two colors of machine embroidery thread. (More DETAILS below.)

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This design is automatically available as a download. The option to request a CD or USB may be selected at checkout.

The swallow design is included in the following formats: ART, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, VIP & VP3. Step-by-step PDF instructions with lots of photographs makes this project super easy!

Hoop size requirement: 4×4