I find myself obsessing lately about applique methods. I haven’t done much traditional applique as I’ve been a huge fan of fusible applique since I began quilting in 2004. Thanks to quilt stars like Karen Kay Buckley and Jill Finley, I am now obsessed with learning how to do it correctly and efficiently. I purchased some supplies, of course. I bought freezer paper, a tailor’s awl, Roxanne’s Baste It Glue, thimble dots, and starch.
I decided to follow Jill Finley’s applique method with stacking four pieces of freezer paper together to make the pattern templates. That seemed to work out ok except that I got the templates too wet with starch when I was brushing the starch on the seam allowance. I dried it out with the iron but I think the templates still bent a bit. I thought it would be good to have an applique project with me tomorrow at Leah’s dance recital. I’ll be backstage for hours and having a hand project sounded good. The other 28,000 hand projects I have started would also have been good. None the less, I made an ice cream cone pattern on EQ7 and prepared the pieces for applique.
I wish I had made the pieces larger but this will have to do.
All the pieces are glue basted to the background and ready for stitching.
This week I got the white borders on Lindsey’s Love Notes quilt. Today I got one outer border on as well.
Next week I’m going to be marking this for the long arm. I just purchased a six pack of blue washout pens. I’ll be ready to mark it up in Judi Madsen fashion and do some custom quilting in all that negative space.
But tomorrow is Leah’s dance recital and that is what I’ll be focused on. I had posted lots of pictures from dress rehearsal on Instagram and Facebook but here are my favorites. This is the debut of Leah’s pointe class on stage. They are dancing to Phantom Of The Opera and it’s really amazing.
What are you all working on this week? I’d love to hear about it. I’ll be posting a podcast episode hopefully the week after next so stay tuned for that. Feel free to ask me questions and I’ll answer them on the podcast.
Sandi
3 responses to “Love Notes and Applique Wannabe”
What fun! A post with ballerinas and ice cream all in the same place! Loved your line about the “28,000 other hand projects,” LOL.
My granddaughter is also having ballet performance this weekend and has been doing en pointe. We just called it toe shoes. Mother wouldn’t let me do it for fear of damage to feet…but it is so pretty. Glad to know you can appliqué back stage. I would be looking looking..LOVE those ballet photos..fab…
Arrgh! Needle turn appliqué! Anything that’s not raw edge frustrates me. I think I like the crispness an intricacy of design that I can achieve with fusing that you just can’t get if you are turning edges under. But kudos to you for sticking with it to get it right.