Websterquilt: Applique

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Island Batik Ambassador's Adventurous Applique Blog Hop with Aurifil

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to create applique quilts using the edge coloring technique and 40 weight Aurifil thread. I have always loved the Fantasy Flowers Accuquilt die by Robbi Joy Ecklo. It's a larger flower at almost 14 inches across which means it's excellent to show off fabrics!

Applique has always been one of my favorite things to do and it was fun to learn a new technique.

For this project I received the Floral Fun collections. It's a gorgeous array of blue, green, and purple. It's designed by Kathy Engle for Terri Vanden Bosch of Lizard Creek Quliting.

I decided to make each flower in a different set of colors. Here's one such arrangement. I love this deep dark purple. So pretty.

Here is another set of fabrics for a flower.

In order to do the edge stitching method you glue down the pieces and don't use any fusible. I was having trouble with squeezing the glue bottle (it was hurting my hand). So I went online to see what other kind if bottles I might use. I found these tiny ones at Michaels and they worked perfectly and it was so much easier!

In order to get the hexagonal symmetry of this block right I ironed my background fabric so I knew where to put down the initial green leaves.

Then I added the petals.

I picked out threads to use for this project and was glad to be using 40 weight. It provided a thicker line than my usual 50 weight Aurifil. I found switching to a slightly larger needle also helped keep the 40 weight thread happy in my machine. I used a size 90 Microtex Needle by Schmetz Needles.

I used an open toe applique foot to stitch back and forth along the edge of the petal using my 40 weight Aurifil Thread. I also found it helpful to use the same weight and color thread in the top and bobbin while doing the edge stitching.

The top is complete! Time to get layering with my favorite Hobbs Batting 80/20 Cotton/Poly batting. I decided to offset the flower blocks with some piecing. This my version of a delectable mountains block.

I did some simple stippling to finish off the quilt and some curvy quilting in the blues. I love how this quilt turned out!

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I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Be sure to check out all the other amazing quilts in the blog hop!

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Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Modern Leaves Block 4

This one reminds me of a tiara? I love the colors.

I love how double blanket stitch looks!

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Friday, May 7, 2021

Modern Leaves Block 3

Block three reminds me of a mask...no not the Covid kind...the African art kind. Look at the long skinny orange oval. That's the nose. Then the two small yellow circles are eyes and the big yellow circle is an open mouth. I didn't see it at first, but now I can't not see it. LOL.

I love how the blanket stitches really add to the leaf. It reminds me of the outlines around shapes in coloring books...but in this case to match the fabric.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Island Batik Ambassador's Quilt Modern Blog Hop

I received the gorgeous Harvest Blue collection from Island Batik to make my Quilt Modern Blog Hop quilt with. It has all sorts of gorgeous yellow and blue prints inspired by harvest time.

I decided that I wanted to play with circles to create my modern quilt. So I pulled out my Accuquilt circle die and put fusible on the back of all my fabrics. I then cut a 2, 3, and 5 inch circle of each fabric except the plaid I saved for binding. Can you see the wheat, grapes, pumpkins, and corn in the collection?

Then I grabbed some solid white Island Batik fabric (the BEST solids to work with) and started playing with different layouts. You will see I went through quite a few before I finally came to a final design.

When I started I was so sure this was going to be the layout....nope.

I like this, but not quite what I wanted still.

I love this idea, but I had too many fabrics for it to work as a baby quilt.

This didn't seem modern enough for me.

Finally! I LOVE it.

All complete! I quilted my quilt with Aurifil thread, Schmetz Needles, and used Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly blend batting. After quilting the project I washed the whole quilt with Synthrapol and happily sent it off with to the new mom to be!