This beautiful design by Michael Zindell was a major reason I signed up for the OESD Spree Club for August 2025. While the designs in the club become available for everyone at a later release date, I was thrilled to work on this project as soon as possible. (Boo Manor Tiling Scene – not an affiliate)

I originally caved and ordered the project bundle from OESD, which included the stabilizer, fusible, and thread. After a week I reached out to customer service to find it was back ordered. I ended up canceling the order and using the materials I had.

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Stabilizers and interfacing

• Black Cutaway stabilizer – New brothread Black Cut Away Machine Embroidery Stabilizer Backing 12″ x 25Yd roll – Medium Weight 2.5 oz (link)
• Tear Away Stabilizer – New brothread Tear Away Machine Embroidery Stabilizer Backing 12″ x 50 Yd roll – Medium Weight 1.8 oz (link)
• Fusible Woven Interface – SF101 (link)

The OESD project list calls for black woven interfacing, but since I had black batting and black stabilizer, I didn’t find it necessary to buy outside of the white interfacing I already had.

Threads

• Brothread set – New brothread 40 Colors Compatible with Brother Polyester Embroidery Machine Thread Kit 500M (link)
• Simthread 63 Colors Polyester (link)
• Embroidery Bobbin thread – Brother 5 Pack EBTPE 90-Weight Embroidery Thread, White (link)

There’s 17 thread colors in this project. Next time I will organize and label better when I’m using stash thread since I mixed up my shades of orange in a few places, and wish my windows at the top of the house had more yellow in them like the bottom.

After the first tile, I gave in to figuring out the Brother Scan N Cut. The SVG files are included in the design, so it was to transfer the cut files to the machine then lay out my pieces of fabric with fusible (Heat n Bond Lite) on the mat. There was on one spot where the fabric shifted and my piece was a little wonky. It was much easier than trying to cut out all those house angles by hand.

Fabric and Needles

I used Island Batik Fabric that was provided to me from my Ambassador Program for all the background, applique, backing, and binding. This is a tighter weave, so when my thread started to shred, I moved from a Schmetz needle 75/11 to the Schmetz 80/12 and it was smooth sailing through the rest of the 330,000 stitches!

And lasty, I was able to use a large scrap of Black Batting from Hobb’s Batting that was already available! I buy this as a huge roll from Linda’s for all my halloween projects and rich colored quilts! Don’t forget to save 10% on your order with code BRITTANY10AP