Can I Applique AFTER quilting?
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Can I Applique AFTER quilting?
Help! I want to finish up a quilt today to give my baby niece. It's not essential that I finish it today, but I want to, since it was supposed to be for Christmas!
I made a play quilt with simple squares, 2 of each fabric. Two of the squares are plain orange and I
went round and round about what to applique on and just couldn't decide. Now that it's quilted and bound (did it myself), I want to put my niece's first initial in the 2 orange blocks.
Can I applique them on now or would that mess it up? I'm kicking myself for not doing it first, but
that step was intimidating.
If it's not wise to applique at this point, should I get an iron-on and just stitch around the letter by hand?
Suggestions, please!
I made a play quilt with simple squares, 2 of each fabric. Two of the squares are plain orange and I
went round and round about what to applique on and just couldn't decide. Now that it's quilted and bound (did it myself), I want to put my niece's first initial in the 2 orange blocks.
Can I applique them on now or would that mess it up? I'm kicking myself for not doing it first, but
that step was intimidating.
If it's not wise to applique at this point, should I get an iron-on and just stitch around the letter by hand?
Suggestions, please!
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Yes, as Traditional pointed out you can do it by machine and make it part of the quilted design, or do it by hand and bring your needle only into the batting. Either way though .. make sure you stabilize the area well to avoid puckering the quilt.
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You can either hand appliqué them on or machine appliqué as others have mentioned. If you decide to use a fusible to iron the appliqués in place before machine stitching them in place, be careful. If you used polyester batt, the iron can compress (fuse) the batt down.
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Yes!! In fact I prefer to appliqué after quilting, especially if you want the appliqué to "pop". I made a baby quilt with a large pony flannel appliqué and it came out great--I did hand appliqué with the blanket stitch.
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