Celebrate Halloween Sewing and stitch a set of Reversible Palette Coasters with our Spooky-Fun Halloween Appliques! We stitched this easy sewing project with four fat quarters from the NEW! Hocus Pocus Fat Quarter Bundle! Our reversible drink coasters, or mug rugs, feature an envelope back and a front flat surface — an ideal “palette” for showcasing seasonal appliques! The reverse side opens to wrap around the base of a stemmed-glass.
Download and print our FREE! Halloween Spooky Fun Applique Printable Patterns.
Halloween Palette Coasters Supply Listing
Team NZP’s FREE! Halloween Spooky Fun Applique Printable Patterns
Four coordinating cotton quilting fabrics from the NEW! Hocus Pocus Fat Quarter Bundle.
Assorted fabric scraps – for appliques
Quilter’s Starch Savvy
Pellon’s® ShirTailor Interfacing by the Yard
Eze-View Pressing Cloth
Non-Stick Teflon Pressing Sheet
Wonder-Under Paper Backed Fusible Web
Clover’s 5-1/8″ and 6-3/4″ Bordeaux Ultimate Scissors
Open Toe Applique Presser Foot
Clover’s Straight Tailor’s Awl/Stiletto
Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
Clover’s Wonder Clips
Clover’s Rotary Cutter and Mat, & Ruler
Schmetz Chrome Embroidery Needles, Size 75/11
Optional: 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot
Standard Sewing Thread
Iron
Preshrink fabrics by steaming and pressing, and steaming and pressing a second time, and then spray press and starch fabric with June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy — press and starch, press and starch.
For four 5″ squares for coaster “fronts”. Note: Team NZP selected the black spiderweb on white background – for the front of our coasters.
Cut eight 5″ squares ShirTailor Interfacing for coaster “fronts”.
For each Palette Coaster, cut three 5″ squares for coaster “backs” and for the reverse “envelope” side of the coaster.
We selected four different Hocus Pocus Fat Quarters – for the back of our coasters.
Using a Eze-View Pressing Cloth, press 5″ square ShirTailor Interfacing to the wrong side of one 5″ front “palette” fabric. Press a second 5″ square ShirTailor Interfacing to the previously pressed interfacing.
Machine Appliqué
Download and print our FREE! Halloween Spooky Fun Applique Printable Patterns.
With pencil, trace desired applique designs on paper side of Wonder-Under paper backed fusible web.
Following manufacturer’s instructions, place rough side of Wonder-Under to wrong side of solid black cotton fabric. Press with dry iron. Allow to cool.
Cut out appliqués. Gently peel off Wonder-Under paper backing.
After cutting out our applique shapes, we auditioned two background fabrics:Witches Boots on White, and Black Spiderwebs on White. Black Spiderwebs on White won!
Position fusible appliqués to right side of palette coaster front fabrics.
Using a Non-Stick Teflon Pressing Sheet, press appliqués to palette coaster front fabric – using a dry iron.
Optional: Layer multiple appliqué elements for multi-color designs.
Attach an Open Toe Applique Presser Foot, insert a new Schmetz Chrome Embroidery Needles, Size 75/11, and set sewing machine for an appliqué stitch, blanket stitch, or medium zigzag stitch (3.5 mm width, 1.4 mm length).
Stitch around outside edges of appliqués.
When stitching –or appliquéing– designs to fabric, stop with needle down on the outside of appliqué fabric when turning outside curves or corners; and stop with needle down on the inside of appliqué fabric when turning inside curves and corners! Always test stitches on a sample appliqué number– fused to a fabric scrap.
Optional: Add stitching accents to your appliqué designs.
Stitch Reversible Palette Coaster
Approximate finished size: 4-1/2″ x 4-1/2″
Press two coordinating 5″ fabric squares in half, creating 2-1/2″ x 5″ folded fabric rectangles.
Layer front appliqued square to one 5″ coordinating fabric square, with wrong sides together and appliqued square facing up. Position two 2-1/2″ x 5″ fold fabric rectangles over thread-embellished square – with folded edges meeting at middle, and raw edges aligning to outer edges.
Wonder Clip edges.
Optional: Insert a 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot, and use Nancy Zieman’s Wrapped Corner Technique to stitch and “wrap” coaster seams toward center – folding along previous stitching lines. Stitch seams twice, for durability! Find Nancy Zieman’s Wrapped Corner Technique in our previous Blog Posting.
Use Clover’s Straight Tailor’s Awl Stiletto to assist feeding fabric layers under presser foot.
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Turn Reversible Palette Coaster right side out, using Point 2 Point Turner to push out corners.
Press.
Repeat steps above and complete additional coasters.
Our Reversible Palette Coasters are so fun to make, you’ll be stitching new coasters for every holiday! And, they make a great addition to a gift basket!
Halloween Palette Coasters Supply Listing
Team NZP’s FREE! Halloween Spooky Fun Applique Printable Patterns
Four coordinating cotton quilting fabrics from the NEW! Hocus Pocus Fat Quarter Bundle.
Assorted fabric scraps – for appliques
Quilter’s Starch Savvy
Pellon’s® ShirTailor Interfacing by the Yard
Eze-View Pressing Cloth
Non-Stick Teflon Pressing Sheet
Wonder-Under Paper Backed Fusible Web
Clover’s 5-1/8″ and 6-3/4″ Bordeaux Ultimate Scissors
Open Toe Applique Presser Foot
Clover’s Straight Tailor’s Awl/Stiletto
Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
Clover’s Wonder Clips
Clover’s Rotary Cutter and Mat, & Ruler
Schmetz Chrome Embroidery Needles, Size 75/11
Optional: 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot
Standard Sewing Thread
Iron
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For a chance to be the random winner of a Wonder Clips 10/Pk from Clover, please leave a comment below sharing your fall sewing project plans.
Clover will give away one of The Ultimate Quilt ‘n Stitch Presser Foot, to one US resident in the 48 contiguous states. Winner must reply within 30 days to the official giveaway announcement email message – sent from Nancy Zieman Productions.
The randomly selected winner of a Stitch it! Sisters 5″ Fabric Short Stack with S!S button & sticker, from the September 19 Blog Post, September 2020 Block of the Month: Block Row Assembly Begins!, is Dixie.
Her comment is: I love the block of the month series. Love the colors used.
Happy Sewing!
Team Nancy Zieman
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