Applique-Design ??: Help Please
Pat Winters
Hoping some of you can help with my current WIP. This is a guild
challenge project. Criteria are:
1. must be medallion (any size, any technique)
2. theme is "Looking Forward - Looking Back" (Can be stroll down memory
lane or hopes for future or both)
3. must include provided fabric, to cover 1/5th of front surface ( this
is a large fruit print with true to life pears,apricots, peaches,
raspberries, grapes and some pink flowers & lots of green leaves)
Getting that fabric over 1/5th and having it suit my personal memories
is a *big* challenge. I decided to make a WH( uh, VSQ) featuring
houses. The central block is a very bright pink house with clear pastel
plaid roof. Then raspberry color narrow border. Now I'm doing
asymmetrical borders. Top & left are 3" strips of the fruit fabric.
Right & bottom are 3" strips of the plaid, with 17 small houses
fuse-appliqued to it. Those are just stylized houses: box with roof,
each only about 1 1/2" square. They are assorted colors & fabrics; the
positions are varied, some are askew. I'm going for a perky, casual &
colorful look for this quilt.
Here is my question: how should I secure the little houses? Options
for my machine stitches are: blanket stitch (AKA-button hole stitch)
with clear nylon thread; same stitch with contrast or matching thread;
satin stitch in ??color thread. Please tell me: which option do you
prefer, do you have a different suggestion? You guys always come up
with great ideas and I look forward to hearing from you. =8-)
BTW: the small houses represent where DH & I have lived and the big
house represents the future (retirement house.)
Pat in Virginia
Moira Riddell
<pwin...@picusnet.com> writes
Pat,
I would applique the little houses using matching/toning thread, and using a zig
zag stitch set 1.0 length and 1.5 width, lower top tension to about 3 (this will
pull the top thread down through the background fabric)
If you have an open-toe applique foot, the job will be so much easier as you can
see were each stitch is going.
Moira