Video - How to Applique Outside Points

It's the last of the machine embroidery videos - covering the trickiest shape - outside points.

Outside points are tricky because you have so little space for your seam allowance to sit. The allowances have to be trimmed very close, and you often wind up with raggedy frayed threads at the tip. Yuck.

My technique won't get you a perfectly perfect point, but it will eliminate those raggedy threads and give you a point that can stand up to machine washing. If you need a perfect point that doesn't need to be super-durable, use needle turn applique. Click the link to watch a video showing how.

In the video I refer back to the previous videos in the series. Here are the links for easy clicking. . .

How to Machine Applique Convex Curves - the introduction to my basic technique on the easiest-to-handle curves

How to Machine Applique Inside Points - the next step - and not difficult at all, once you know the trick.

How to Machine Applique Concave Curves - also easy, once you know the trick. :-)

Happy stitching!

Best,
Wendi