good evening everyone my name is Lindsay and I am from unique baby boutique I this is my fourth tutorial that I've made I really enjoy doing them so today we're going to be doing a tutorial on how to machine appliqué so there are many steps to machine application it can seem a little overwhelming but in reality once you get the hang of it it's bing-bang-boom you got the steps you can do it I always say I always tell my girl friends when they ask me how how much how do you do that how can you do that I can never do that I'm not crafty I was told them you never know what you can do until you try you can fail or you can succeed but you'll never know until you try so try to always have a positive outlook when you start a project I know sometimes it's hard when you're in a rush and you know you got to get things done but if you're not in the right frame of mind your projects can have not come out well you need to be ready to sew and ready to go alright so you're going to need obviously your hoop this is where all the fun happens right inside this little baby next thing you're going to need are your stabilizers now the two stabilizers that I use literally for every single project I do is going to be hell on 8:06 stitch and tear now you don't necessarily have to use this brands but this is just a brand that I think works the best I love it it's great the next brand that I use is gonna be sulky sticky and I don't know if you can see that but it has a grid on it next thing you're gonna need is heat and bond light now there's two different types of heat in lot heat and bond there's a regular coupon which is a white paper with a red where it says heating bond in red and then the purple one where it's it says heating bond alight and that's pull the light is better for applicaton so your next step is going to be to pick out your coordinating fabrics for your project the project that I'm choosing is going to be the Incredible Hulk I'm also adding a coordinating number to match so when you applique you almost never want to use just plain fabric because it will tear it will separate from the satin stitch you won't be able to have a clean smooth applique when you first start you know you'll be trial and error what works for you and what doesn't but this is what over a few years of trial and error this is what I figured out works the best so you're going to get your heat on light and you're going to iron it on to the back of your fabric so say you know I previously ironed it on to save time so you're going to cut it to size and then you're gonna iron it on from that point on you are going to take your shirt and you could either hoop or float it floating is when you hoop your stabilizers and you look the shirt literally on top of the hoop you can hear my daughter in the background floating I'm sorry hooping is when you take the shirt and you literally hoop the whole thing I personally don't like hooping I float everything I do I've made a previous tutorial on floating so if you're interested in learning how to float I would definitely watch that tutorial I'm actually gonna float this shirt really quick but I'm gonna time-lapse it up for you guys so I'll be back in a couple minutes with that you alright now that I got my shirt hoot I would like to talk about some other materials that you're going to need you're going to want to have coordinating thread colors for your fabric so most of the time like 99% of time I use Floriani thread I love it I've been using it since I started embroidering I think it works the best not to men not to say that you know say you like sulky thread I also use a lot of silky thread but you just have to figure out what works best for you I'm gonna if you can tell but it's really really shiny it's beautiful I also really like a mond thread it's a nice accord it's almost just as shiny but I feel like Floriani has a little bit more of a sheen so these are going to be the thread colors that I'm going to be using today here are my coordinating fabrics then you are going to need scissors you're going to need a good pair of embroidery scissors I have been using Kai 4 inch curved for the past 4 years someone recommended them to me because I also make felt ease for hair bows and someone recommended them for me for felt ease and I was like okay great I'll try anything because you know my scissors are so dull so there are $15 free shipping and I ended up buying two pairs that same day and I had to look back since and that was in 2013 was the last was the first pair of scissors that I um KY scissors that I bought their Chi 4 inch curved I'll post the link to on the materials that I use if you decide that you like the way that I applique excuse me I also wanted to show you this scrap piece of fabric it has the heat and bond light already on there this is what it looks like when you peel it off but I have a tub all of applique scraps I never throw away a piece that's big enough for like a piece of hair or you know shorts or a shirt or a face I try to save every piece that I possibly can because you're just in my opinion you're throwing away money when you're throwing this away this is a perfectly good piece of fabric with heat and bond light already ironed on so all right let's get to the applique if you have any questions also please feel free to ask me I love questions I'll try to answer as best as I can so I'm gonna take you guys step-by-step on the machine out okay all right so that first stitch is called a placement stitch that lets you know where you need to place the fabric the next stitch is going to be called your tack down okay so it's a little hard to see I know because I did white on white I should have done black and then white but if you can see that I think you barely can can see the outline of the three the next one you'll be able to really see it you all right so can you see that that is called a tack down all right now let's do the sign now before the signs pitch you have to trim around let me see if I can move this down my battery's gonna die properly charge it so you want to trim this is the importance of a good pair of scissors you want to make sure to trim as close as you can without actually cutting the stitches now I'm gonna be a little bit faster at this then someone else who is just beginning but it's the general it's the same idea you're just you just have to take your time and try not to cut the stitches because if you do some designs when they do a satin stitch they don't I wanted to satin stitch they just go right to it and you'll have fabric separation I'm not sure if I mentioned also that a fresh needle will completely change your project you definitely want to work with a fresh needle when you're doing when a you've been on your broidery machine all day or you know you've been using it pretty consistently for the past few days I think they say each little is good for about 8 hours but I think that also depends on the amount of work that you've been using it and that eight hours so I do a lot of in the hoop projects like I make a lot of kids masks and things like that I've been making those for a few for you know a day or so I changed my needle if I'm gonna do a shirt because it will completely change the way that your shirt looks so I'm gonna change my thread to black I'm actually gonna turn off the camera then I'll come back to show you what it looks like afterwards you all right so here is the finished shirt I hope the video was informative I'm gonna add a couple extra slides I took some pictures of another shirt that I made an applique on so hopefully I helped you guys out if you have any other questions please let me know I would be happy to assist I hope you guys is how great dang it again here is our shirt