GINGERBREAD MAN

I usually make this Gingerbread Man as a rice bag to use as a warming bag, but it can also be stuffed and used as a doll. You won't need the lining for just a doll.

SUPPLIES:

Dark brown felt (1 yd. makes at least 4, depending on width of felt)

Dark brown cotton for lining

Fusible webbing
such as Heat n Bond or Wonder Under or Steam a Seam strips

Embroidery thread
red/heart and mouth
black/eyes and nose
brown/finishing edges

Bobbin wound with the dark brown embroidery thread for finishing edges

Bobbin thread on a bobbin for decorative stitching and embroiderered heart and name

1-1/2 Cups rice (uncooked)

Pattern: For the real size of this gingerbread man, you should enlarge it to 125%. Cut out 2 gingerbread men from the felt and 2 from the lining fabric for each gingerbread man. I cut 1/2" strips of some kind of fusible webbing or Steam a Seam and apply them around the edges of the felt enough so the lining can be pressed in place. Felt stretches especially when moist, so the lining will help with that problem

Click HERE for pattern

Use Customizing to add the child's name under the heart (E Card 1) and save it as a design. Hoop stabilizer, use a ruler to draw horizonal and vertical lines on the hooped stabilizer. Draw placement lines on the felt for the heart. Spray the stabilizer with embroidery adhesive and match placement lines on the felt to the placement lines on the stabilizer. Embroider the design.

Use stitch D26 (a wavy border stitch) to embroider the frosting look on the lines of the hands and feet. Use stitch A 14 (satin stitch) to stitch the mouth in red. Do the curve first then do the ends.

Designer 1, the border stitch is H 16 and the satin stitch is C 30.
Rose, the border stitch will be 35 and the satin stitch is 38. SW 2.0

Eyes and nose with black embroidery thread:
Viking 1+ Program D50 > D35 elong. 4> D35 elong. 4 mirror end to end> D50 Stop Repeat
Designer 1 Program C5 elongate 4> C5 elongate 4 Mirror end to end> Repeat.
Rose Program A30> A38> A30 end to end mirror> repeat.

Or, download the completed Gingerman face HERE in HUS format for your embroidery machine. You will to Unzip the file using WinZip or your favorite unzipping program.

Pin the back and front wrong sides together. Put the dark brown embroidery thread in the bobbin case and on top. Press A21
Designer 1 is A 16
Rose is A6

Starting on the right top of the head, sew this stitch so that the sideway stitches go over the edge of the fabric. Stitch all around the man until you reach the left top of the head and leave an opening to pour in the rice (a funnel works well). After adding the rice, then close the opening with the same stitch.

If you have other brands of sewing machines, use similar stitches. The stitching used to sew this together is actually a utility stitch that makes a seam and overcasts the edge.

Microwave on medium for 2 minutes as a warming bag.

J.H.