Bring a classy touch to your holiday home decorating with this tutorial on creating chair scarves.

Supplies

  • OESD’s Holiday Couture #12471
  • Medium Weight TearAway Stabilizer
  • Temporary Spray Adhesive
  • 1¼ yards off-white cotton fabric
  • Khaki cotton fabric scraps for appliqué
  • 14″ x 2″ piece coordinating printed khaki fabric
  • 14″ x 2″ deep red cotton fabric
  • 14″ x 4″ off-white satin fabric

Instructions

Embroider

  • Cut an 18″ x width of fabric strip of off-white cotton fabric for embroidery.
  • Keeping the design centered, embroider design(s) of your choice close to the edge of one selvage end of fabric. Our sample uses design #12471-19 Noel Applique.
  • Appliqué using the khaki cotton fabric as needed, following the Cut-in-Place Appliqué Instructions below.
  • Trim loose threads from embroidery design and carefully remove excess stabilizer from the back.

Cut

  • Cut remaining off-white cotton fabric into (3) 12½” x 36½” strips.
  • Trim embroidered fabric ½” below the embroidery.
  • Keeping the embroidery centered, cut the embroidered 18″ strip of fabric to 12½” wide.

 Assemble

Use ¼” seams unless otherwise noted.

  • With right sides together, stitch the 14″ x 2″ piece of coordinating printed khaki fabric to the embroidered fabric (below the embroidery).
  • Press seams toward the khaki fabric.
  • Trim sides of khaki fabric to 12½”, matching the width of the embroidered fabric.

  • Trim the khaki fabric to 1¼” below the seam.

Note: Sew the stripes longer than needed and trim them to the desired size to ensure they remain straight. If the first stripe is uneven by a small amount, by the time the second and third stripes are attached, the unevenness will be more obvious. This method will better hide any imperfections in your seams.

  • With right sides together, stitch the 14″ x 2″ piece of deep red fabric to the khaki fabric.
  • Press seams toward the red fabric.
  • Trim sides of red fabric to 12½”, matching the width of the embroidered fabric.
  • Trim red fabric to ¾” below the seam.

  • With right sides together, stitch the 14″ x 4″ piece of off-white satin fabric to the red fabric.
  • Press seams toward the red fabric.
  • Trim sides of satin fabric to 12½”, matching the width of the embroidered fabric.
  • Trim satin fabric to 2¾” below the seam.

  • Trim the embroidered front half of the scarf to 12½” x 36½”, measuring from the bottom edge of the satin fabric.
  • With right sides together, attach one of the 12½” x 36½” to the non-embroidered edge of the scarf, to create the 12½” x 72½” scarf front.
  • Press seam open.
  • With right sides together, stitch the remaining two 12½” x 36½” strips of fabric along the short sides to create the 12½” x 72½” backside of the scarf.
  • Press seam open.
  • With right sides together, stitch the front of the scarf to the back of the scarf. Leave an opening at the opposite end from the embroidery for turning.
  • Clip corners, turn and press.
  • Whip stitch opening closed.
  • Edge stitch if desired.
  • Fold scarf in half and drape over the back of a chair.

Refer to the PDF of this collection for the Cut in Place Appliqué instructions.

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