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Quilt Designs for Creating Appliqué Quilts HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: Quilt Designs for Creating Appliqué Quilts 1 2 4 3 Flying Colors The Heartfelt Landscape 1 MaRY STOUDT R 3 OSE HUGHES Defying the Line: Free-motion Décor-Bond It! 2 Appliqué Explained and Explored 4 Machine Appliqué ELLEN ANNE EDDY MICKEY DEPRE HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: QUILT DESIGNS FOR CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS QUILTINGARTS.COM 1 ©Interweave HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS The art of appliqué has long been a way for Got curves? If you love the curves of a quilters to add designs to their using fabric, fanciful landscape quilt but don’t know in addition to piecing. But while traditional how to begin appliquéing the pieces, Rose quilters hand-stitched Hughes’s tutorial The Heartfelt Landscape their fabric motifs in place, will show you the way. She uses her Fast- HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: contemporary quilters are Piece Appliqué™ method, which combines QUILT DESIGNS more apt to fuse or machine- simple straight-stitch piecing methods with FOR CREATING stitch appliqué, opening machine appliqué to produce shapes that up new, faster, design are normally very difficult to piece. APPLIQUÉ QUILTS possibilities. For an easy, breezy, mixed-media approach, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Pokey Bolton In this free eBook, How to Appliqué: Quilt try making Mary Stoudt’s reverse-appliqué EDITOR Cate Coulacos Designs for Creating Appliqué Quilts, we flags. Each one is a mini fabric collage with Prato bring you four methods for expanding your quotes that peek through from beneath the appliqué design repertoire from four very layers. In Flying Colors, Mary shows how CREATIVE SERVICES talented artists. reverse appliqué adds textures and layers to DIVISION ART DIRECTOR Larissa Davis In Defining the Line, Ellen Anne Eddy your fiber art, and how fun it is, too! PhOTOGRAPHERS Larry Stein shows how to use the free-motion zigzag We hope you enjoy exploring the stitch to machine appliqué wild, curvy contemporary appliqué designs and methods Korday Studios shapes and then add shading and dimension presented here in How to Appliqué: Quilt Projects and information are for inspira- to those shapes. This type of appliqué Designs for Creating Appliqué Quilts, and tion and personal use only. Quilting Arts stitching gives you more flexibility with go on to use these skills to make many of Magazine is not responsible for any li- thread and fabric, too. your own appliqué art. ability arising from errors, omissions, or Mickey Depre explains how using a fusible Warmly, mistakes contained in this eBook, and interfacing like Décor-Bond helps to shape, readers should proceed cautiously, espe- support, and stabilize fabrics, making cially with respect to technical information. it perfect for machine appliqué use, in Interweave grants permission to pho- Décor-Bond It! Machine Appliqué. Her tocopy any patterns published in this step-by-step directions will help you make issue for personal use only. appliquéd wall quilts that hang beautifully, POKEY BOLTON even with intricate, bias-cut shapes. Editorial Director PUT MORE IN YOUR LIFE fabric texture dXb\fm\ip. 28 FROM MISTAKE TO MASTERPIECE QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE® explores ideas, textiles, and techniques for related to embellished and contemporary art quilting. Inside, tips QUILTentering SHOWS you’ll find design inspiration, step-by-step directions, gorgeous from photo graphy, and for developing your personal style, at photo motivation to all skill levels. ART QUILT p. 14 Thread sketching made easy p. 46 800.406.5283 (U.S. & Canada) quiltingarts.com 760.291.1519 (International) QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE®, P.O. Box 469087, Escondido, CA 92046-9350 HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: QUILT DESIGNS FOR CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS QUILTINGARTS.COM 2 ©Interweave HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS ADAPTED FROM FLYING QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE FALL 2005 colors BY MARY STOUDT MATERIALS y approach to quilt edges become added texture. For • Cotton fabric, or cotton-compatible Mmaking is shaped by my my larger quilts I know what fabric, in a variety of colors (Choose art background and experience end result I want before I cut the one that looks good from either side.) in mixed media. I feel most fabric, visualizing the colors and • Iron-on transfer paper or freezer comfortable when exploring shapes first, and then improvising paper techniques and pushing the limits as I work through the process. • Quotations of each medium. It was a natural The same technique of adding and • White or light tan, high-thread-count fabric for printing text fit when I started to layer cloth and subtracting bits of fabric that I use • Small embroidery scissors sew it in a deconstructive style. for the quilts can be adapted to • Computer with printer Instead of hiding and minimizing making small flags for inside or • Cord for hanging flag the construction, I make it part outside your home. • Glue stick of the design; hence raw seam • Rotary cutter and cutting mat • Sewing machine Optional • Acrylic paints, beads, trim HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: QUILT DESIGNS FOR CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS QUILTINGARTS.COM 3 ©Interweave HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS These flags are made to be viewed and on the flag. 2. Turn the flag over and sew another enjoyed from either side, plus they stitching line outlining all of the are quick to make. As I experimented CREATING THE FLAG patches, thus creating a two- with various color combinations, I 1. Orient the flag pieces measuring color line of stitching affixing the 1 began to select those fabrics that best 8 ⁄2" vertically. Arrange the patches. allowed a glow of color when held up geometric shapes as you would 3. With sharp embroidery scissors, to the light. I like the flags best when a patch, and add the quotation gently poke through one of the hung as a grouping, but they can be printed on cloth in an area that layers of the patch and cut around hung individually, preferably at a pleases you. Sew all the patches 1 the inside of the stitches, ⁄8" from window. and quotations in place. stitching, to reveal the contrasting PREPARATION Tip: To repeat the deconstructed look, fabric underneath. leave long threads hanging as you pull 1. Using a computer, type quotations, 4. Steam iron the flags thoroughly the flag from the sewing machine so you poetry, or song lyrics with a and fold down the top edge to can thread tiny beads onto the ends. common theme. 2. Prepare freezer paper/transfer paper by ironing a piece of your light-colored, tightly-woven fabric onto the paper and cutting it to 1 exactly 8 ⁄2" × 11". Tip: If using freezer paper it is best to prepare it right before you are ready to use it. 3. Print your quotations onto the fabric and cut the individual quotations apart, trimming as needed. 4. Using a rotary cutter, cut 6–8 pieces (or as many as you want) to 1 a 8 ⁄2" × 11" size. After trimming, the finished flag will measure approximately 8" × 9". 5. Cut or tear a variety of contrasting colors of fabric into many differently proportioned geometric shapes, each measuring approximately 2"– 4". 6. Thread your machine with one color of thread on the top and a different color in the bobbin. Tip: Check to be sure that the tension is not set too high. Too much tension, or a tiny stitch length, will cause puckering Close-up of flag front; note the window effect. HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: QUILT DESIGNS FOR CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS QUILTINGARTS.COM 4 ©Interweave HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS form a hanging sleeve. Stitch a Front 3 double line about ⁄4" from the top. Backstitch at the edges to reinforce. 5. Using a rotary cutter, trim the sides 1 and bottom of the flag to a 8 ⁄2" × 9" size. 6. Working from both sides of the flag, continue to add patches to the flag. Save the pieces you have left over from trimming and add them to the flag. Re-iron your flag. EMBELLISHING • Consider adding tiny beads, feathers, small metal charms— anything that would relate to your quotations. Or prepare your own embellishment by tearing 3 contrasting fabric into ⁄4" strips and sew it as a border. • Add tiny beads to the long threads 1 that you left hanging while Back, cut ⁄8" stitching. from stitching. Tip: Trim the shapes after stitching both sides if you want to add more overlapping shapes. Since the 1970s, Mary Stoudt has been stitching, weaving, making paper, and creating mixed media all to create diverse works some of which have been described by critics as being whimsical and spiritual. Learn more at marystoudt-artquilts.com. HOW TO APPLIQUÉ: QUILT DESIGNS FOR CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS QUILTINGARTS.COM 5 ©Interweave HOW TO APPLIQUÉ CREATING APPLIQUÉ QUILTS ADAPTED FROM QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE DEFINING WINTER 2002 THE line FRee-MOTION APPLIQUÉ EXPLAINED & EXPLORED BY ELLEN ANNE EDDY he variable width of the Tzigzag stitch makes it a natural when it comes to edging appliqués, no matter what technique you use to create them. While a straight stitch only catches a single strand, the zigzag crosses several strands and is therefore much more stable. You are probably familiar with using your zigzag presser foot and a satin stitch to create a solid, pudgy line that is perfect for straight lines, but it is difficult to use this method effectively with more organic, free- form shapes. Enter the free-motion zigzag stitch — perfect for edging those wild, curvy images that don’t follow the straight and narrow. It’s also perfect for shading, shadowing, and making your image come alive. Before you begin to free-motion zigzag on your appliqué, remember that appliqué “Drawn to the Sun” Beetle and sapsucker wings are outlined and detailed with metallic threads.
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