Abstract: A mushroom shaped needlepoint canvas is formed as a hollow curved shell of perforated flexible plastic material, the canvas having a generally oval head part and a tapered stem or body part. This canvas is readily modifiable by shortening the bottom of the body part, attaching limbs as arms and legs, and joining pairs of canvases to form enclosed ellipsoidal shapes atop an enclosed truncated cone base.

Abstract: A method of stitching a pattern on fabric employing a piece of interwoven netting having rows of square holes and the desired pattern printed thereon. The netting is attached to the fabric so that the pattern on the netting directly overlies the area on the fabric where the pattern is to be reproduced. The pattern is then stitched onto the fabric using a needle and embroidery threads. The stitch that is used is a cross-stitch wherein the thread is pushed up from the inside surface of the fabric and through the center of a hole in one row of the netting and then crossed over an intersection of the netting on a 45.degree. angle to the threads forming the netting. The thread is then pulled down through a hole in an adjacent row and through the fabric. Upon completion of the stitched pattern, the netting is removed by drawing out the threads thereof one strand at a time. A kit is also provided to enable one to carry out this method.

Abstract: An embroidered design adapted to be heat sealed to another article. The design is embroidered on a substrate made of woven polyester fabric. The substrate is bonded at the underside thereof to a low melt thermoplastic adhesive film to form a lamination. The design is thereafter traced along the outer and inner peripheries thereof with a severing tool to remove all portions of the lamination except only the design proper consisting of the embroidering thread and the plastic film portions thereunder. The design may then be heat sealed to another article such as a garment with the garment proper being exposed between adjacent portions of the thread to simulate a design embroidered directly onto the garment.

Abstract: A fabric for threaded embellishments is formed of a plain consistent weave having no more than 60 warp threads with a continuous filling thread so as to permit a needle and thread embellishment through the interstices thereof.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making aesthetically pleasing and novel quilting including intricate artistic stitching-patterns. The quilting results from a preferably tri-laminar layup having a resiliently-compressible foam layer sandwiched between relatively thin facing and base fabric sheets. The method utilizes a tabletop for supporting the layup, at least one sewing machine head overlying and associated with the tabletop, and gripper means for frictionally engaging non-peripheral areas of the layup for shifting same along the tabletop relative to the sewing head according to successive command means.

Abstract: An embroidery fabric having colored guide threads forming a grid corresponding to the heavy grid lines on conventional embroidery paper patterns, the guide threads being removed from the fabric when the embroidery work has been completed.

Abstract: A method of forming a stitch pattern is disclosed in which at least two closely spaced or coincident end stitches are present. The overall pattern is divided into overlapping block sections. In one block, a first group of stitches is formed followed by a second group of stitches being formed in an adjacent block. The number of stitches between closely spaced or coincident stitches that results is reduced. Therefore the accumulated error of fabric feeding pitches and the distance between the two end stitches is reduced resulting in a more precisely constructed overall pattern.

Abstract: A method of producing a dimensional scallop stitch to provided a petal-like effect wherein a bar of thread, attached at spaced ends to a piece of cloth, provides an anchor for a series of loops of thread, wherein the loops are formed by passing a threaded needle repeatedly beneath and around the bar of thread with the outer ends of the loops spaced from the bar of thread and the loops interlocked with a next succeeding loop, filling the bar of the thread with loops until those portions of the loops at the bar are closely confined and the outer ends of the loops are unconfined, whereby a petal-like unit is produced which stands away from the cloth supporting the bar of thread.

Abstract: A needlepoint sheet of flexible plastic material having a plurality of aligned rows of perforations for receiving thread-like material such as yarn therethrough. The sheet has at least one flat face which has pattern indicia imprinted directly on the flat face so that one may needlepoint a design in accordance with the pattern indicia or in accordance with instructions utilized in combination with the pattern indicia. The pattern indicia may take on the form of a pattern needlepoint design on the flat surface of the needlepoint sheet or it may consist of indicia on the border of the flat face at spaced intervals to assist one in locating specific perforations in the sheet for sewing a needlepoint design thereon. The side walls of each of the perforations are preferably in the form of a pyramid frustrum.

Abstract: A stitching grid is formed from a rigid lattice plate having spaced perforations extending therethrough surrounded by lands. A design of one or more colors is imprinted on the lands. Colored yarn is stitched through the perforations with the color of the yarn matching the color on the lands to produce a yarn embroidered design on the grid.

Abstract: In the preferred embodiment, the triaxial fabric is adapted for use as a needlepoint canvas with the yarns forming the fabric being defined in three sets of the yarn courses with the courses within each set being parallel. The courses of each set are angular to the courses of the other two sets, usually at a 60.degree. angle with the courses from all three sets commonly intersecting at a plurality of points in a repetitive pattern over the fabric. Preferably, one of the sets is at all intersecting points sandwiched between the yarn courses of the other two sets.The equilateral configuration of the pores of the canvas facilitates embroidery of patterns having 30.degree., 60.degree. or 120.degree. corners and permits contiguous placement of embroidery patches which are composed of stitches oriented along non-parallel, non-orthogonal axes.

Abstract: A pair of embroidery hoops especially adapted to be used with a sewing machine including an inner hoop of fixed diameter and an outer hoop composed of substantially quadrantly related, arcuate hoop segments adjustably interconnected by circumferentially acting screw type connectors, permitting one-handed adjustment of the outer hoop without distortion of the work material. Each of the two hoops is notched along its upper edge to facilitate movement of the hoops under and out from under the presser foot and needle of the sewing machine. Opposed lug members extend inwardly of the inner hoop and provide surfaces to be contacted by the user's thumbs or forefingers for ease of manipulation of the hoops while doing embroidery.

Abstract: A predetermined symmetrical pattern is sewn on a canvas by applying a flexible adhering sheet having printed thereon indications of a gridwork corresponding to the gridwork of the canvas. The flexible sheet is of substantially smaller area than the canvas and indicates STITCHES and paths to be followed. The edges of the flexible sheet gridwork are aligned with the canvas gridwork while they are joined together. The canvas is then sewn with a first set of stitches to establish paths and STITCHES illustrated by the paths on the flexible sheet. The flexible sheet is removed and a second set of stitches is sewn to complete the paths established by the first set of stitches.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing chenille crests comprising, preparing a large block of chenille material many times the size of an individual crest by Moss stitching background material with white thread, applying by heat transfer a heat transferable and washable coloring ink in the form of crest designs, to the surface of the chenille material, cutting the chenille material along the outline of the crest designs, stitching the cut chenille material along the edges to a felt type backing material, and cutting the backing material outside of the stitching to form complete individual crests.

Abstract: A canvasworking method is disclosed herein which comprises a procedure by which the entire surface of an open weave material is covered. The method entails the formation of several endways-adjacent stitches in a line along the top of the open weave material, and several endways-adjacent stitches in a line along the bottom of the open weave material and directly underlying the top stitches. The top and bottom stitches each extend between first and second holes in the open weave material. The first and second holes of at least two of the top stitches and of the bottom stitches include at least one hole in the open weave material lying therebetween, such that the stitches extend more than just between adjacent holes. The method is preferably performed by first weaving a strand of material through an open weave material in a first direction forming a line of alternately top and bottom stitches.

Abstract: There is disclosed a technique analogous to needlepoint employing a ribbon and a needlework canvas. The ribbon is worked through the mesh openings of the canvas to lay a multiplicity of flat untwisted sections along perpendicular axes to completely cover the canvas between suitable margins.

Abstract: The three-dimensional embroidered article is produced by preparing a plurality of elemental cloth pieces each having an embroidery pattern including pattern lines of embroidery extending substantially along its edge lines and sewing said plurality of elemental cloth pieces together along their embroidered edge lines.

Abstract: A method of preparing articles of aetzed embroidery is provided which includes stitching embroideries on a backing of thermoplastic material to form composites, with the backing being either a continuous web or individual sheets. The composites are fed into juxtaposition with a transfer strip having a first side thereof to which the thermoplastic backing material will readily adhere. The composites and the transfer strip are pressed together and heat is simultaneously applied to bring the thermoplastic backing material to its fusing temperature so that the portion thereof covered by the embroideries adheres to the embroideries, and the excess portion of the thermoplastic backing material not covered by the embroideries fuses and adheres to the first side of the transfer strip.

Abstract: There is disclosed a technique analogous to needlepoint employing a ribbon and a needlework canvas. The ribbon is worked through the mesh openings of the canvas to lay a multiplicity of flat untwisted sections along perpendicular axes to completely cover the canvas between suitable margins.