Adding Battenburg Lace to Garments
Adding Battenburg Lace to Garments
Beautiful Battenburg lace is a lovely style of embroidery, and a delightful way to add interest to your
apparel. Learn how to adorn sweaters, scarves, and other garments with Battenburg lace for excellent
results.
Project Needs & Notes:
- Water-soluble stabilizer
(Vilene or Sulky Ultra Solvy)
- 30-35 weight thread
- Size 11 or 75/11 sharp sewing needle
- Needle and thread for some hand sewing
(optional)
Designs used in this tutorial include the
Fine
Fashions (Battenburg Lace) designs.
This video tutorial demonstrates how to embroider
Battenburg lace. Specific assembly instructions
for adding it to apparel are below. Battenburg lace designs are
embroidered onto water-soluble
stabilizer. When the stabilizer is
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soaked away, beautiful lace remains behind.
First, create templates of the
Battenburg lace to plan where to
add them.
A template is a
printout of a design, and it's an
excellent tool for planning where
to stitch.
If you do not have embroidery
software to print templates, try Wilcom's TrueSizer, a free
program.
Arrange the templates on the
garment how you want them.
Here, one of the designs will
wrap around the shoulder seam
at the top of the sweater.
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Battenburg lace is digitized for 30-35 weight cotton thread. This
thread brings a classic, hearty,
and traditional look to the lace
pieces.
30-35 weight cotton thread is
found under different names,
such as mercerized cotton or
all-purpose cotton.
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You will use the same thread in
the top and the bobbin, too.
Wind a bobbin with the cotton
thread.
There are two main types of
water-soluble stabilizer. One is
clear and looks like plastic; an
example brand name is Sulky
Ultra Solvy.
The other kind is soft and
fibrous, such as Vilene. Both will
work well. Vilene is used in this
demonstration.
Use a size 11 or 75/11 sharp
sewing needle, instead of an
embroidery needle.
A sharp sewing needle has a
smaller, finer point than an
embroidery needle. That means
it will make smaller holes in the
stabilizer.
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Embroider the design.
Battenburg lace uses two colors
of thread.
Remember to change the bobbin
thread for the second color, too.
After embroidering, cut most of
the stabilizer away.
The stabilizer's packaging
should give instructions for
removing the excess.
Air dry, and press.
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Adding Battenburg Lace to Garments
Once all of the designs are
embroidered and ready to go,
add them to the garment where
you planned and pin in place.
You can sew the lace in place by
hand using needle and thread.
This works especially well in
places where the garment might
not lay completely flat, like this
the shoulder of the sweater.
On flat areas, like on the front of
the sweater, you can machine
sew the lace in place.
Use the same color thread in the
needle as you did for the lace.
Sew a seam along the inner edge
of the lace.
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Adding Battenburg Lace to Garments
Battenburg lace adds elegance
and style to your apparel!
Add to sweaters, as a detail
accent on back pockets, or
around sleeve cuffs for a
delicate look.
Questions or comments? Let us know! Send an email to us; the address is
[email protected].
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