I thought of trying applique the other day, not even knowing which direction I should go, I searched the web for basic application of applique. Seeing how simple it was I started straight away. I started tracing basic shapes like circles, hearts , triangles and squares on cardboard.
Using anything I could find, like different size bottle caps (for circles) I started tracing them on cardboard and cutting them out.
From there I played around mixing them up, using the sharp edges of the heats and circles I made flowers too.
Even putting some of these shapes together made pretty designs.
That was when I thought of making a small but simple flowers with stems wall hanging quilt using my applique templates. Again not sure where I will end up I arranged them on a piece of fabric to see the sizes of the flowers and ended up cutting 4, 10" blocks.
I roughly cut a piece of colour printed fabric that I wanted to use for the flowers, stems and leaves and ironed a strip of applique paper to the back of the fabric. I then traced the designs on the applique paper and cut them out.
I used 3 different colour print fabrics for the whole quilt.
Pulling the paper from the back of the applique, I ironed on the flower making sure I applied the heat long enough to make it stick to the fabric.
Before I started stitching the design to the fabric I pinned a piece of wash away stabilizer to the back, to secure it nicely and to make sure the fabric wont pucker up.
As this was a test quilt, and I wanted to see what I can do, I tried different filler free motion quilting on each of the four blocks. Again Leah's designs came in very handy and used Stippling, Wandering Clover, Paisley and Echo-Arches.
Stippling |
Paisley |
Echo-Arches |
Referring back to Leah's quilt along #7 I pieced the blocks together using binding strips, following her instructions was easy and I will definitely use this method again
I enjoyed playing around with this little wall hanging quilt, and found a spot in my sewing room to put it up.
Flowers and stems applique wall hanging quilt |
10 comments:
This mini quilt is gorgeous.
Love your applique and your quilting is gorgeous!!!
Thanks :-)
Thank you, I'm still learning and have a long way to go...
Wow your quilt is beautiful
Thank you, I am now working on a sampler quilt, this is mostly piecing, but will try and make some time for free motion quilting too...
Love your quilts - you are so creative!
Thanks, at first I thought the idea was silly, but when I was done, it didn't look too bad.. :-)
That is so pretty!
I love your pretty wall quilt, Marelize!
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