This is the second part in a series of three tutorials. Part one shows you how to make a Christmas themed quilt top using charm squares.
See also:
- Part one: quilt top assembly
- Part three: improv patchwork back of quilt
In this tutorial I will embroider a French Christmas children song on the quilt top and do some other embroidery on the white fabric as an extension to the fabric print.
This is the song:
Père-Noël
Un, deux, trois
Qui est-là ?
Père-Noël
Père-Noël
Entre vite, il fait très froid,
Bonne fête et chocolat !
Father Christmas
One, two, three
Who’s there?
Father Christmas
Father Crhistmas
Come in fast, it is very cold,
Happy Christmas and chocolate!
Download:
French Christmas song embroidery for tracing (pdf).
WARNING: The song sentences do not fit the zig zag lines exactly. You will need to move the paper to make it fit better to the zig zag path.
Print pattern and stick together.
Placing the paper underneath the top, trace the song making sure the words follow the white fabric zig zag area.
Closeups of the song
Using stranded cotton in matching colours embroider the song using stem stitch.
The song has been embroidered.
Pattern matching embroidery
To complement the poem, I decided to extend the patterned fabric into the white areas so I selected some prints and drew the rest of the flowers or graphic elements using a water soluble marker.
Just a few graphic elements here and there.
Spread out throughout the whole quilt.
And then I embroidered those.
I like the look of the pattern overflowing the white areas.
The top is ready for the backing and quilting.
Sewn Up 
that is so beautiful…and such a lot of beautiful work too!
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Thank you! I did this work a while ago and when I had a look again I wasn’t sure about the poem though I like the “print extension” embroidery and I intend to do some more work on that in future.
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I just love your idea of extending the pattern from the printed fabric into the background. Lovely.
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Yes, I think it´s quite cute. I plan to do some more of that some time. I´ll post details.
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This is such a cute quilt top and the addition of the embroidery really adds that special touch. I love the way you made your zig zags – much easier than triangles!
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This is such a lovely project… the embroidery is just a wonderful touch.
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I love how you’ve continued the fabric designs into the white in embroidery really “Arts” it up!
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