Large appliques "stuffed" does anyone know?
#1
Large appliques "stuffed" does anyone know?
Am making a "magical" quilt for great granddaughter and it will consist of fairly large appliques of unicorns, fairies, princess (s) and a castle. I have never done any stuffing (trapunto) on a quilt and have tried researching this but I find all these absolutely beautiful trapunto quilts usually consisting of lots of machine quilting or embroidery; nothing at all like I have in mind. I just wanted to stuff the bodies of the unicorns; dresses of princess and fairies but will not be doing a lot of machine quilting; most will be hand quilting. My appliques are hand applique (turned) and what I would like to do is put slit in back of quilt top and stuff them before embroidering the face detail etc. Any advice?? Thank you all so much for any tips.
#2
Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 12
This is a timely question. I am currently trying to give dimension to an owl. After a couple of huge fails I figured it out. I laid a piece of highloft batting behind the owl image and stitched all around it and the details like the eyes and feathers.Then I trimmed the extra batting away. Next I will layer with normal batting and quilt some background fillers. Things I learned the first time...do not use a marker that needs to be removed with the iron because when I did it flattened out my owl. Hope this helps.
#5
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Wis
Posts: 5,928
I think in the "olden days" they may have made a small slit and shoved stuffing in, then hand stitched the slit closed. I just went back and read what you said, and that's what you thought to do too. So it should work!
#6
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 696
My teacher taught us to use a piece of gauze. Sew around the gauze till it covers the back of whatever you are stuffing. Use the Hallmark yarn with a large needle and pull the yarn thru, cut it off, and stuff it in. Do this until it is full. Sometimes an arm or small area needs to be filled and this is the way to do it. I put mine in a hoop to keep it neat and tight. Then when you have it done, then lay the batting and backing onto it. With the Hallmark yarn, you have the option of pulling different colors in. I have used this on decorative pillows with candlewick too. It seems like years ago already. Have fun.
#8
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Lake Stevens, WA
Posts: 1,914
Lynnie, your method works for SMALL areas, but I think antylu is doing large enough areas that they might get lumpy when washed. High loft bonded batting, secured at the edges and details, sounds like a safer bet. I once made a 3' wall quilt in an animal shape using that method successfully.
#9
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2,140
I wanted mine puffier than what I could get with batting, so I filled with WonderFil. The trick is to make sure to leave a little bit of slack in your applique to make room for the filling. As Lynn said, just whip stitch from the slit closed when you're done (or if you are like me & want to really be sure that the hole is closed, you can throw in a few stitches, iron on a piece of matching fabric with fusible & then blanket stitch that down so the backing is super secure).
I've also seen what Ragamuffin recommended & it looks very nice. They did a demo of it at a local yarn shop using white cotton fabric with hand-dyed wool yarn and a curved tapestry needle and an awl. If I had had the money, I would have done that. Here's a link to trapunto done with a combo of dyed & white (matching) yarn: http://www.designerstitches.net/Shad...ther%20350.gif
I've also seen what Ragamuffin recommended & it looks very nice. They did a demo of it at a local yarn shop using white cotton fabric with hand-dyed wool yarn and a curved tapestry needle and an awl. If I had had the money, I would have done that. Here's a link to trapunto done with a combo of dyed & white (matching) yarn: http://www.designerstitches.net/Shad...ther%20350.gif
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
bearisgray
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
65
02-01-2024 09:04 AM
QuiltingByCourtney
Main
25
04-30-2013 07:50 AM