Embroidery Machine Felt Turkey Mask

inside: Sew a felt turkey mask on your embroidery machine. Cut and easy Thanksgiving project made on an embroidery machine. This easy turkey mask is a fun Thanksgiving project.

I had so much fun making this embroidery machine felt turkey mask. Brother Sews asked me to do a facebook live show in November with a kids turkey project and I hadn’t really made anything like this before. I decided to come up with a fun project to write about now, and they show you all how to make it live soon. I came up with this adorable embroidery machine felt turkey mask and I love how it turned out, just how I envisioned. All the details can be found below.

Embroidery Machine Felt Turkey Mask

I love making kids costume masks! I’ve made a few before…

I was hoping to just find an embroidery file to use for this turkey mask, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I decided to create my own with a couple of premade embroidery files. The files I purchased can be found with the supplies and how to use them is in the tutorial below.

Didn’t these felt turkey masks turn out so cute? Rose kept trying to make a “turkey face” while wearing the mask, but it just made her look a little crazy. {haha} The smiles are just fine…

how to make a felt turkey mask on your embroidery machine

The mask part of the turkey is an “in the hoop” embroidery file and so easy to sew. Once that part of the mask is complete, then I created some feathers to add to it. I didn’t like the way the mask looked without the feathers and I think they complete the mask perfectly.

I created five different color feathers and used one of each for these masks. I have five more feathers ready to show on my facebook live show. Come check me out on Nov. 10th on the Brother facebook page.

Sew a kids Mask

Feather Design here
Turkey Mask – this is slightly different than the one I used, but that embroidery site went down a month after I wrote this post… yuk!
Stiffened Felt
Embroidery Thread
Sticky Stabilizer
Brother Embroidery Machine {or combo machine} with 5×7″ hoop

A couple of notes. I really like using stiff felt for masks like this. It allows me to only use a single layer for them as well. of course you can add a second layer or backing, but with this stiff felt I don’t really need to. In order to hoop the stiff felt you do need sticky stabilizer though. I used it for all the hooped steps of this project.

In the Hoop Embroidery

ok! Let’s get creating. Download the two embroidery file and load them on your machine. Place the hoop in the machine. The file will first outline the mask shape.

When you are adding the second color, place it on top of the first and hold it in place while it stitches. Make sure to carefully check your machine screen as you go to layer felt as needed. I needed to trim away the white to embroidery the nose of the turkey. I just messy trim it while in the hoop.

Here you can see the white trimmed away from the other thread lines.

When the embroidery is finished remove it from the hoop.

Cut around the outside of the mask. Also, clip any jump threads. Trim close to the stitches, but make sure to not clips the threads. Also cut around the white of the eyes. Cut open the eye holes.

I left the sticky stabilizer on the back to give the mask more structure. Make sure to clip open the elastic holes on the side of the mask as well. Part one of the mask is complete. This is the turkey mask as purchased. I just really wanted feathers on mine.

I purchased the second embroidery file which was five feathers. I really only wanted three feathers of each color, so I stood by my machine and stopped each one after three, then changed out the felt and restarted the file to embroider three more.

I made five color feathers, but you can do more or less or the same. Arrange the feathers as you want on the head. I just held in place. Sew with a straight stitch on the embroidery line to secure the feathers in place.