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Appliquéd Thanksgiving Bib Pattern
 Bring on the turkey! The center of attention at your Thanksgiving
dinner will be the cute little gobbler wearing this bib.
Materials:
- Coats Rayon Thread- 39B Barberry Red, 48A London Tan,
- Coats Dual Duty Plus All-purpose Thread-- 56B Cloister Brown
- Coats Medium Rick Rack--1 pkg. 128 Red
- Coats Extra Wide Double Fold Bias Tape--1 pkg. 56B Cloister
Brown
- J & P Coats Embroidery Floss- 1 skein of 8403 Black
- 1/3 yd. of gold print
- 5" Square of dark red print (turkey feathers)
- 2 1/2" x 4" piece of brown print (turkey)
- 1" x 1 1/2" piece of cranberry print (wattle)
- 10" x 10" piece of polyester fleece
- 10" x 10" piece of fusible webbing
General Instructions:
Use a 1/4" seam allowance when sewing. Sew
pieces together with right sides together, raw edges even and with
matching thread. To fuse fabric to fusible webbing, center the
wrong side of the fabric on the rough side of the webbing.
Fuse with iron according to manufacturer's directions. Trace
pattern piece on the paper side of the fused fabric. Cut out. Peel
off paper back from fabric. Fuse to base fabric.
Bib and Appliqué patterns: To download and
print the patterns for the turkey appliqué, click on the link below.
>> Download Thanksgiving Bib Pattern
If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click
on the image below.
Directions:
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Cut 2 bib shapes from the 1/3 yd. of gold print fabric and
1bib shape from the fleece. Center the wrong side of a fabric
bib on a fleece bib. Center the other fabric bib right sides
together on top of the fabric bib. Pin Sew together along the
neckline only. Clip seam. Turn right side out. Press. Pin
along raw edges.
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Sew a piece of rick rack around the neckline 1/4" from the
neckline edge. Machine baste around the outside of the bib,
1/8" from the edge
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Allowing a 12" length of wide Bias Tape on each side of the
neckline for tying, enclose raw edge of fabric in the tape
with narrower side of tape on the right side of fabric. Hint:
Swirl tape before applying. Lay tape on project and use a
steam iron to shape tape into a curve. Pin. Fold and press
ends of tape 1/4" to inside. Starting at one end, stitch close
to edge of tape, continuing around bib to the other end of
tape.
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Fuse webbing to the webbing to the rust, brown and cranberry
prints; trace and cut out the appliqués. Fuse motifs to the
bib.
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Set machine for a satin stitch (length between 0 and 1 mm,
width between 2 and 3 mm. Machine appliqué the wattle with the
Barberry Red, and all other pieces with the London Tan rayon
thread.
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Sew a French knot for each eye with three strands of black
floss.
© 2004 by Coats & Clark Inc.
Reproduced with permission from Coats & Clark Inc.
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