Irish Chain with embroidery
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Irish Chain with embroidery
I'm starting an Irish Chain for my GS and would like to hand embroider on the solid squares. Should I embroider, then cut to size or cut the size I need, then embroider on them. I am not too sure how much embroidering on the square would shrink or distort the block. I don't plan on a very dense design, mostly just outline of simple items.
Thanks in advance,
Deb
Thanks in advance,
Deb
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I would suggest that you embroidery on each blank square first and you should cut your embroidery square a little bigger and cut to size you need when you are done with embroidery. Sometimes doing embroidery takes up some space and makes your fabric square smaller. Hope this idea helps.
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I have actually done it both ways. Once I made an ocean wave and decided to stitch sea shells in the open spaces and another time I made squares and put them in a quilt. The only difference I found was that the quilt top that was made was a do at home only. At least if you do the squares first, it's portable. I also was able to back the embroidery in the squares. But I did make them larger than needed so I could hoop them.
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