Embroidery 101: Dear Santa Panel

[Music] hi everybody I'm Natalie from Missouri Star Quilt Company and I'm here today with Jenny hi so we have a fun project to show you it's Christmas in July yes and we have these great panels with Santa's face in red work look at this now they're super cute just on their own you could border it or just quilt it and bind it as is but I thought how cool it would be if we just went ahead and stitched right over the top of it with our embroidery floss and made it into this beautiful red work pan I had to touch it to see if it wasn't already embroidered I know well and the the cool thing is if your stitches are not quite perfect the red work behind the red it makes it so it doesn't even show it just looks perfect I love that so check this out oh that looks so cool you like that so one of the things that I think is really important to notice on this is that we have machine machine quilted right over the top of this embroidery and a lot of times people are afraid to machine quilt over the top of their embroidery but it just what it does is it for to me it kind of like stabilizes the embro yeah it holds everything down really well it's going to be last way longer it's going to hold together really really good and it just looks awesome don't you think yeah it totally does so you can do the line work in your favorite Stitch you know all the all the lines like um stem Stitch back stitch running Stitch split Stitch you have videos on all of those yes and so if you need some Stitch support you can check them out on our YouTube channel um and then for these pieces I just did a satin Stitch but I think it would also look cool in like a chain stitch or French knots you know you could really fill in those larger spaces with whatever Stitch you love really cool this is so cute you guys I thought it was just a really fun Christmas project it didn't take me too long and it's all like drawn out and ready to go I just used some red floss for my stash and literally it'd be a great carryon with you you know if you're in the car or you're you know you just have one panel and a hoop and and the same color of red yeah what color did you use uh just whatever red you had probably I used um whatever red I had I don't remember that the exact number but we will find some good Reds and we'll put them on the landing page so that you know you guys can have some to choose from for sure awesome yeah well all right so that's it I hope this inspires you to get creative and have fun with some Christmas projects in the summertime or whenever you decide to work on them it's inspired me for sure that's right see you guys later thank you so much for joining me for this video today I hope that you enjoyed it and that it inspired your creativity and guys we're at almost a million Quilters strong in our community so if you know of anybody that you think might like to join us and learn quilting with us bring them on in put your arm around them and tell them to subscribe to our channel so that we can all learn and and grow together [Music]