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8 short years ago, if you wanted to make a quilt featuring appliqué, you had to print a template, trace the template onto fusible webbing (making sure you remembered to mirror the template if it wasn’t already mirrored), apply the fusible webbing to the back of your appliqué fabric and then cut the shapes out using a pair of scissors. Definitely time to watch a good movie or get together with some friends for a good chat (and maybe a glass of wine!).
If there was any complexity in your quilt, preparing and cutting all the appliqué shapes could take hours – or even days! The Heather Feather (quilt which I created back in 2009) has a little over 600 appliqué shapes on it – it took about 24 hours to prepare and cut all of them.
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It’s an ideal way to quilt if you’re a beginner, and it’s a quick and easy way to quilt if you’re short on time (or ideas!).
When I’m quilting around embroidered appliqué shapes, I like to stitch in the “ditch” around the edge of the shape.
Basting is defined as:
“The act of moistening food while cooking, especially with stock or pan juices.”
Oops! Wrong kind of basting!
The kind of basting we do in machine embroidery and quilting is:
“Sewing with long, loose stitches to hold material in place until the final sewing.”
Basting is important for both machine embroidery and quilting.
When you’re making a quilt, most people are familiar with the concept of basting the layers of the quilt together (backing + batting + quilt top). For a small quilt, you might baste the layers together using long, loose stitches. For a larger quilt, most people use safety pins. I prefer to use long straight pins. Even quilts quilted using a long arm machine are basted, ensuring that the layers don’t shift when the quilt is being wound and unwound on the rollers.
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When you’re making a quilt top, there are typically two techniques you can use. You can piece small pieces of fabric together to create a larger piece, and you can appliqué small pieces of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a picture or a pattern.
My favorite technique and specialty is appliqué stitched using my embroidery machine, or machine embroidered appliqué.
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Интересную идею украшения предложила блоггерша из Теннеси, США. Блог под названием Хелленисмос .
Автор называет эту технику "ложный пэчворк", хотя это похоже на технику "артишок" или "уголки".
Для создания плоского круглого украшения требуется: