PLAIN (No GingerKid) Pocket with Grid Snack Mat 8x8 to insert your own design... in honor of Loralye's Birthday....Happy Birthday, Loralye!!!

Batting 9" x 9" square

Fabric #1 9" x 9" square (center fabric with grid)

Fabric #2 9" x 9" square (make a small slit in the center if you need help cutting away the center for reverse appliqué border

Fabric #2 9" x 9" for backing

Pocket Fabric 7" x 3" (fold in half)

Hoop tear away stabilizer - Color #1 placement

Place batting and Fabric #1 (right side up) and center over placement stitches

Color #2 - Tack Down

Color #3 - Grid

Color #4 - Pocket Placement

Place folded pocket fabric with the fold at the top of the pocket placement lines, making sure to cover the side and bottom placement lines.

Color #5 - Pocket Single Run Tack Down - Cut away the fabric sides and bottom as close to the stitching as possible

Color #6 - Pocket Zig-Zag tack down

Take a piece of tape and tape the fold of the pocket closed...to keep your embroidery foot from catching it as the rest of the design sews...

Center Fabric #2 border fabric over placement line

Color #7 - Single Run Stitch Tack Down then Zig-Zag Tack Down - Cut center of Fabric #2 out as close to the Zig-Zag tack down stitch as possible.

Color #8- Satin Ball stitching

Place your design and sew here...after your design sews, go back and sew the final tack down...

Center Fabric #2 for backing, wrong side up, over hoop.

Last Color - Finishing tack down

Remove from hoop, trim with 1/4" seam allowance, leaving a larger "tab" at the opening for easier turning. Turn, press. I suggest sewing topstitching around the edge of the satin ball stitching on the sewing machine to finish...ENJOY!!!