W
ho wouldn’t love to be cozy on the most
beautiful snowy day of the year?
Enjoy every moment of machine embroidery
felting to create your own all seasonal cape. When you
select your fabric of choice, explore the various roving
yarns, wool or craft felt, or any wool fabric remnants for
the most exquisite results.
Choose the colours that move you, and remember that
anything goes. You can also mix the wool roving for
variety of colour splashes in the felted embroidery. Each
felted embroidery could also be different if you wish.
Have fun with it. This cape can be transitioned into cooler seasons, and can be done in a variety colour groupings, linings, and neckline accessories. Wrap around
scarves, or cowls, bulky knits, can also be used. Gloves,
half gloves, fingerless or full gloves, fashion hats, to
include only a few items. Explore all of your ideas. z
skill level intermediate
finished measurements
approximately 33" [84cm] in length
materials
fabric
2.2yds [2m] of 150cm wide medium
weight brushed wool
2.2yds [2m] of 150cm wide minky fabric
for lining
1.1yd [1m] of batting, Soft Touch Batting
was used for the sample.
1.1yd [1m] Inspira® Tear Away Stabilizer
sewing feet used
S Foot (large foot for Omnimotion stitches)
Seam allowance guide foot
General sewing foot
Topstitching foot
cutting tools
TrueCut rotary cutter
TrueCut cutting mat
TrueCut rulers
INSPIRA® scissors
Husqvarna Viking® provided the following machines and
products to make the sample:
Husqvarna Viking® Designer Ruby Deluxe
Husqvarna Viking® Embroidery Design #230 Organic Creations
6D Embroidery Software with 6D Sketch & 6D Stitch Creator
INSPIRA® Stabilizers
TrueCut cutting tools
Robison Anton Threads
Extension Table
Other
8 pieces of crafting or wool felt (7 for cape
and 1 for practice sample)
INSPIRA® fusible fleece extension/quilting
table for circular attachment use
Husqvarna Viking metal hoop (180 x
130mm)
felting embroidery set
sewing extension table
marking tools
i n s t r uc t ion s
preparation
Choose a cape pattern of your choice or
use our pattern piece measurements
to create one. These panels can be
adjusted to any size you wish using
measurements of your choice.
cutting
1. Cut all of fabric pieces for cape. These
measurements are generous and can
be fitted and trimmed to size.
software
Husqvarna Viking Embroidery #230
Organic Creations
TIP There are many styles of batting
that can be used for quilting this cape.
A combination of batting styles plus the
stabilizer can also be used. Experiment on
a sample piece first to see what the best
result is for the weight of the fabric you
selected. The cape still needs to appear
soft in appearance and not overly bulky
in the upper area. When the lining is
added, all of the stabilizers and battings
will be between the layers and not seen.
Any excess batting and stabilizer will be
trimmed away to reduce bulk.
Note: See cape illustrations for measurements.
needles
INSPIRA cutwork needles for machine
embroidery
New INSPIRA® 90 Universal, Embroidery
90 for decorative stitching
Inspira Tear Away Stabilizer is used for
support behind the decorative stitching.
It’s important to use stabilizer behind
all decorative stitches and any machine
embroidery stitches. Some felting designs
with the felting needle also incorporate
regular machine embroidery with thread
and an embroidery needle to complete
the design.
about the felted embroidery designs
Each of the cut pieces will be felted using
embroidery mode on your embroidery
machine. Choose any area of the panels
to felt, and any type of pattern or multiple
felting designs each different from each
other using your 6D Embro idery software.
The sky is the limit when it comes to
creativity.
threads
Robison-Anton®
rayon threads 40wt for decorative stitching
60wt bobbin thread for decorative stitching
multi-purpose thread
2. Cut 5 for the standard cape pieces and
cut 2 for the centre front pieces.
Cheryl Stranges
Product & Event Specialist
husqvarnaviking.com
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