Hi all,
I'm hoping some of you can share your expertise in sewing my Dresden Plates to the background block fabric.
I have the "plates" completed and have them lightly glue based (using the school glue and hot iron technique I learned here for bindings). I'm considering a couple of options, and am also open to hearing other suggestions.
Option 1: Applique them on by hand. Time consuming... but I DO want this quilt to look good. How durable, for washing and drying, is hand applique?
Option 2: Use "invisible" poly thread with a very narrow zig-zag stitch and sew them on by machine. This seems like it might be a little sturdier, but I don't have any experience with hand applique, so I don't really know.
What do you all think???
Thanks for your advice!
Wendy
P.S. I am making an oversized queen with either 49 or 64 plates, so I'll be doing A LOT of whatever method I choose.
Then I'll FMQ the whole thing using the "push through" method on my Juki. I've done a couple of pretty large quilts this way, so I know it's do-able.