Have FUN Creating Placemats on Your

Have FUN Creating Placemats on Your
This is an easy beginner project to reinforce what you have already learned:
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Transferring designs from the USB to the Quilt Magician (QM)
Creating a folder
Copying designs from the USB into the folder created
Baste, adjust stitch length, adjust speed, and center a design
Edit: move, rotate, resize, remove, autofill, merge, smart scale
Adding multiple designs onto the quilting surface
Choosing QM designs
Quilting the designs
Note: Don’t forget what you have already learned about the care of your machine. Cleaning and oiling are an important part of machine
maintenance. If you need a refresher, check the instruction manual that came with the machine or watch the videos on the
tinlizzie18.com website. Have the QM Users Manual handy to reference if you have any questions on how to do something in the Quilt
Magician or watch the videos on the tinlizzie18.com website .
Materials:
Since these are practice pieces, use fabrics you have on hand.
• Fabric:
• Top: 2 ½ yards -45” wide for top (1 ½ yards for quilting the four placemats
and one yard allowed to make 2” bias cut strips for the binding).
• Back: 1 ½ yards 45” wide fabric
• Cotton batting
• New needle (if one is needed)
• Quilting cotton thread to coordinate or contrast with fabrics for top and
bobbin
• Sewing thread to bind the placemat
• Fusible tread (optional)
• Rectangle placemat design
Basic Sequence of steps to create the four placemats:
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Load the fabric on the frame; thread the machine.
Create a new folder and load the “Rectangle Placemat”
Add two placemat designs onto the quilt area; rotate the placemat design.
Add QM designs into the rectangular placemat area; edit the designs to fit
the area.
5. Stitch the first two placemats.
6. Roll the quilt.
7. Repeat the steps 3-5 to create two more placemats.
8. Remove the placemats from the frame and cut out along the stitching line.
9. Bind the edges of each placemat.
10. Enjoy your new placemats!
Load the back fabric, top fabric and batting
Use the Baste feature, set the stitch
length, and baste the top, batting and
backing fabric together at the top and
sides.
Place the Rectangle Placemat design on the
USB stick.
Create a new folder and name it “Placemat”
Locate the “Rectangle Placemat” design on
the USB stick, prepare to copy it to a new
folder.
The design is now ready to be added to the
quilt area.
Follow the prompts on the screen to define the quilt area.
Add pattern and select the placemat design. The design is over 19” tall. It needs to be rotated so two
will be able to be stitched side to side.
Rotate the design CW.
Under the edit menu, select Move.
The design needs to be moved to fit within
the quilt area.
Move the placemat design to the upper left
hand corner is in the upper left hand corner
of the quilt area.
Add a second placemat design, rotate and
move it to the right of the first.
Check the stitch length and adjust it to what you would like.
Follow the prompts to start stitching. Stitch the rectangular placemat outlines.
Remove the pattern on the screen Each placemat will now be treated as a separate area (just
like a quilt block) and designs added and edited to fit the area of the placemat.
Treat the first rectangle as a new layout. Follow the prompts on the screen to measure the area.
Begin and end about ½” inside the rectangle area. This is like adding a design to a block area on
a quilt. (There is another way to do this, but it will be reinforced in a future project.)
Using the design selection in the Quilt Magician, choose an overall
design such as “Charms” under the “General” folder.
Go to Add pattern,
and find the “Charms” design in the the “General” folder.
Autofill the area keeping the pattern proportions
Move the design to center it in the area by holding and dragging or using the arrows. When you are happy with the location, tap the check mark.
Now “Merge” the designs
and watch the start and end points change.
Stitch the design inside the first rectangle placemat area.
It is so much FUN to watch designs stitch out on the
Adjust the stitching speed as desired.
Now the same steps will be repeated to create a quilting design on the second placemat. Start with a
new layout, set the quilt area as the area inside the second rectangle placemat
We’ll use this feather design under the
“Blocks” folder.
Add the pattern. Locate that pattern under the “Blocks” folder and select the design.
To fill the center area of the placemat rectangle with the design we’ll “Smart Scale” it. Chose Smart Scale, and keep the pattern proportions.
The pattern needs to be centered within the placemat rectangle area. We could move the design
like we did before, but there is an automatic centering feature making centering very easy and
accurate.
Choose “AutoCenter” and watch the design
pop into the middle of the placemat area.
There is still an area on each side that will accommodate another design. The design Feathers Blk 3” is the
same style and will fit nicely on each side of first design. Find this pattern and select it.
After the design is added, it needs to be moved to align with the first design. It faces outward and we want it to face inward, so the design has
to first be mirrored Vertically. Once it faces the correct direction, then use the move function to align it with the first design as shown.
Repeat the steps of adding the same design to the
right side and moving it into position (it doesn’t
need to be mirrored this time).
Because there are tight curves, you may
wish to adjust the stitch length so it is
shorter and will make for smoother stitched
curves.
Start the machine and stitch the design.
creates beautiful, consistent stitching
throughout the design.
Repeat the steps for creating two more placemats:
• Set the quilt area
• Add the rectangle placemat pattern twice
• Stitch out the rectangle placemat
For the second two placemats different designs will
be added.
Now roll the fabric so the previous two
placemats show just below the rail.
Choose the “Cont leaves” pattern in the Flowers folder for the third placemat, and autofill the area with the design, auto center it and stitch.
For the fourth placemat, choose the “open
meander” design in the Geometric folder.
Autofill the area
Stitch the design following the display screen prompts.
and merge the design.
Remove the fabric from the rails and cut out each placemat,
cutting just outside the placemat stitching line.
To create the binding, cut 2” bias strips (stitch them together
if necessary) and press the binding in half lengthwise.
Stitch the binding to the edge of the placemat meeting cut edges and mitering the corners. Stitch the binding on using a ¼” seam allowance.
To finish off the end, fold down one edge of the binding as shown, overlapping the second edge over the fold, pin in place and stitch. Trim the excess fabric.
There are several brands of fusible
threads on the market.
An optional step is to use “Fusible Thread” to hold the binding in place temporarily for stitching. Thread
the top of the machine with the fusible thread and baste stich a line right next to the stitching line for
the binding. Using a warm iron, press the binding to the right side.
Continue to press the binding all the way around the placemat, mitering the corners then use the same thread
that was used for quilting the designs to stitch the binding in place.
Placemat backs and fronts
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