From selecting the right garment to securing, stitching, and finishing it, discover how to embroider a beautiful sweater that showcases your unique style. Embroidery expert Pattie Otto helps you choose perfect pairings of sweaters and designs, and reveals essential secrets to keep your stitches from sinking into or distorting the fabric. Find out how to accurately mark all-over, mirrored, and symmetrical designs – even on textured sweaters – using the elegant designs that are included free with the class. Then, discover how to deconstruct a sweater to access sleeves and shoulders, and reassemble it with ease. Finally, learn damage-free removal methods for toppers and stabilizers, plus Pattie’s tips for dyeing stabilizer so it blends seamlessly with your sweater, inside and out.
Class Sessions
Choosing Sweaters & Designs
32:19
Meet your instructor, embroidery designer and author Pattie Otto, and gain an overview of the techniques and designs you'll be working on in class. Next, Pattie helps you compare a wide variety of sweaters with consideration to what styles, yarns and fabric weights will be the best choices for machine embroidery.
Hooping & Basic Placement
19:42
Hooping can be a little intimidating, but Pattie shares the best secrets of the trade for hooping your sweaters in a way that prevents your fabric from getting crushed or stretched. Next, learn how to gently secure your fabrics to ensure that your sweaters are stable enough to stitch on. Put your new skills into action as you embroider a gorgeous leaf design that's included with your class.
Embroidering Hard-to-Access Areas
18:35
Shoulders and sleeves can seem inaccessible due to side seams and other constraints, but Pattie offers great techniques and confidence-boosting advice that will help you embroider where you want to. Learn which parts of a sweater can be deconstructed and which to leave as they are. Pattie also shows you how to gently take your seams apart and reconstruct them like a pro.
Mirrored Designs
20:22
Discover how to align mirrored designs perfectly on a variety of sweaters using Pattie's professional tips to help you as you go. Learn the best ways to mark your designs and use stabilizer that doubles as a marking tool. Additionally, define the center of your hoop to ensure precise stitching. Pattie shares troubleshooting tips to help you avoid design misalignments or fabrics that trip up your needle.
Lightweight Sweaters
18:32
Learn how to stitch on a flyaway-front cardigan, and try techniques that prevent thin layers from shifting. Pattie helps you select designs that work best with lightweight projects, and shares suggestions for the stabilizers, threads and hoop sizes that pair the best with delicate projects.
Finishing Techniques
21:28
Now that you've learned how to place and embroider designs on your favorite sweaters, it's time to navigate the tricky business of removing the toppers and stabilizers. Pattie helps take the fear factor out of this step by demonstrating how to remove all types of toppers, including ways to avoid clipping your threads and helpful methods to keep the inside of your sweaters looking neat.
Dyeing Stabilizers
28:47
Take your skills a step further as you learn how to dye various stabilizers to match the inside of your sweaters. Discover what type of stabilizers lend themselves to dyeing, and how to recreate the hues you want using a stovetop kettle, front-loading or top-loading washing machine. Finish the class ready to embroider the sweater project of your dreams, starting with a gorgeous design and finishing with stabilizers and threads that are barely noticeable.
Your Instructor
Pattie Otto
Pattie Otto's career has always been driven by creativity, and she currently designs for both embroiderers and sewists in her pattern line, Great Copy. She has taught extensively over the years, and especially enjoys sharing her machine embroidery and heirloom sewing expertise.
Bonus Material
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - Supplies and Resources
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .ART (252 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .DST (73 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .EXP (60 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .HUS (56 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .JEF (61 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .PES (177 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .SEW (49 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .VIP (57 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .VP3 (63 KB)
The Machine Embroidered Sweater - .XXX (61 KB)
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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