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Create a board game that will keep the little ones occupied for hours. Great for traveling in the car. Game
pieces adhere to the board while playing. A pocket in the back houses the game pieces when not being
used. The Brother Disney Card “Finding Nemo” is ideal for this project
Materials and Supplies
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Brother Disney Sewing and Embroidery Machine Combo
Brother Disney “Finding Nemo” Card SA341D
(Nemo embroidery is also available on www.ibroidery.com)
Brother embroidery thread
Sticky back water soluble stabilizer
Sticky back foam-1 sheet
Sticky back hook and loop tape-hook only ¾” x 10”
Blue felt 11” x 11”
Light blue cotton fabric- 2 pieces 11” x 11”
Light blue cotton fabric- 1 strip 3” x 46”
2 color green scrap fabrics for ocean bottom and seaweed
Tim tex 11” x 11”
Ribbon-4 strips ¼” x 11”
Sew on hook and loop tape 9” x 3.4”
Monofilament clear thread
White organza 9” x 12”
Water soluble marking pen
Hand sewing needle and light blue sewing thread
Creating the game pieces:
1. Cut stabilizer to fit the 5” x 7” hoop.
2. Hoop the stabilizer, using a pin scratch the shine side to
perforate the paper.
3. Lift and remove the shiny paper to expose the sticky
side.
4. Cover the sticky side with organza and smooth out any
winkles.
5. Set up your machine for embroidery.
6. Turn on your machine and install the design card into
the machine.
7. Pull up the deign card and choose one of the motifs that
would fit nicely in a 3’” x 3” square.
8. Install the hoop.
9. Position the first design in the upper corner, add 4
more of the same design within the hoop space, putting
them as close to one another as possible.
10. Embroider all five of this design. When finished choose
another design of similar size and repeat the previous
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step to fill the hoop space. Embroider 5 of the second
design.
11. When the embroidery is done, remove the hoop from
the machine.
12. Using a sharp scissor, cut out all ten designs as close as
possible to the design itself.
13. Immerse in water to remove the sticky back stabilizer.
14. Pat dry with a paper towel and set aside to completely
dry.
Creating the game board:
1. Set your machine up for sewing.
2. Thread the machine with monofilament thread. Use the
same type of thread for the bobbin.
3. Choose a small zig zag stitch for appliquéing.
4. Divide the blue felt fabric into equal parts of three and
draw a reference line on the fabric for ribbon
placement.
5. Place the ribbon strips on the blue felt background
fabric vertically and pin in place.
6. Sew both strips to the fabric appliquéing them to the
material. Figure 1.
7. Do the same to the remaining two ribbon strips, placing
them horizontally and appliquéing in place. Figure 2.
8. From the darker green scrape fabric, cut a small ocean
bottom, appliqué in place. Figure 3.
9. From the lighter green scrape fabric, cut 5 seaweed like
shapes. Arrange close to both sides and bottom.
Appliqué in place. Figure 4.
10. To create the back pocket, fold 1 piece of the light blue
fabric in half, wrong side’s together place on top of the
other piece of fabric and mark where the fold lands on
the non folded piece of fabric.
11. Using a straight stitch, sew the “sew on” hook and loop
tape to the folded piece of the fabric at the fold,
centering the hook and loop tape leaving equal
amounts of fabric on each edge.
12. Sew the other side of the hook and loop tape right
under the line previously marked. When placed
together, all raw edges should align. Figure 5.
13. Turn the pocket piece over, wrong side facing up; place
the Tim Tex on top. Place the game board felt piece on
top of the Tim tex making a quilt sandwich. Pin
together.
14. Fold the 3” strip of fabric in half, wrong sides together
using a straight stitch, sew the binding, matching raw
edges to the edge of the game board. Figure 6.
15. Slip one end of the binding into the other, encasing the
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Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5
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ends as you sew.
16. Fold the binding over to the back, pin in place.
17. Hand sew the binding to the back of the game board.
You have just completed the playing surface. Set aside
for now.
Figure 6
Finishing the game pieces:
1. When all your game pieces have dried thoroughly, place
one piece of each game piece on the foam paper backing side and
trace around it completely. Make sure you draw on the paper side
of the foam. When the paper is torn away the sticky side will be
revealed. Figure 7.
2. Using a sharp scissor, cut out all traced game pieces, 1/8”
smaller than the tracing. 10 pieces total.
3. Remove the paper back and adhere to the back of each game
Piece.
4. Cut the sticky back hook tape into 1” intervals. Peel off the paper
and adhere to the back of each game piece. Some trimming
maybe necessary. Figure 8.
Figure 7
Have fun playing the game!
Figure 8
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