Cozy Christmas Sew Along - Week Seven - Block Seven!!

Good morning cute people! 

Today is week #7:)

We are half way through our 

Cozy Christmas blocks already!

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If you are just joining us 

and need to download 

the free pattern:)

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to get a set of 

Cozy Christmas 

Sew Simple Shapes

We are using the Cozy Christmas fabric collection!

Today we are making this cute little guy:)

#CozyGingerbreadmanBlock

One fabric...one shape!

We are using NUTMEG Solid by Riley Blake 

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 to download the cutting guide

and cut your interfacing and fabric.

You will need 

4 pieces of 2" long ric-rac 

for his frosting:)

I'm going to show you my 

easy peasy method of 

sewing the ric-rac on all in one step!

I traced my shape... and then drew a line

 3/4" up from the bottom of each leg...

and 1/2" in from each arm.

This is where I will place my ric-rac when sewing.

I sewed on my marked line just like normal...

and placed a piece directly under the line on the first arm and held it into place.

No need to pin...its better if you don't so it will lie flat.

As I got to that part...

I continued stitching on the line and across the trim at the same time.

I backstitched a few stitches over the trim just to secure it. 

I continued sewing...

inserting each piece of trim as I came to it like this....

Until I had completely stitched around 

the gingerbread man and all four pieces of trim:)

Easy Peasy!

I trimmed my 1/4" seam allowance...

And clipped all 5 "cleavage" areas.

I cut my interfacing for turning...

And turned each arm and leg one at a time...

carefully making sure that the trim flipped over to the front:)

This is how he looked after turning but before pressing.

I pressed each arm and leg and then the head separately before I pressed the whole shape at once.

I used my turning tool to get all of the edges as smooth as I could before pressing.

I traced my embroidery lines on before basting him to the background.

I placed hime 3/4" down from the top and 3/4" up from the bottom:)

I went through my jar and chose three

Cute Little Buttons

To go down the center.

Now he's all ready for appliqué...

embroidery and button sewing!

You can hand stitch the

 ric-rac down with white thread:)

I used 6 strands of my

Aurifloss 

for the embroidery and also

 to sew on each button:)

After trimming my block to 6 1/2" square...

I used the yellow and aqua

 little bells print for the inner border:)

And added my flying geese and

 half square triangles pieced border.

YaY! 

Take a photo of your cute little

 gingerbread man and post him on

 Instagram 

so that we can all see him:)

Sew you next week!

xx

Lori