Originally Posted by BonniFeltz
Originally Posted by leakus
Peg,
I think you mentioned that you use water soluble double tape to secure teh applique pieces while you are attaching them. I'd like to try it and bought the tape. Do you use tape just in the middle or you cover the entire back and fold the seam?
Maybe you can show us a picture?
I'd be interested in that technique also.
I love all the different variety of the vases and flowers. Hopefully I will get mine done by the time the new one comes out. I *almost* did fusible because it would have been quicker and I love how sharp the points are with it. When I do needleturn the points aren't as sharp. Perhaps one day they will be.
My vase with the brown is going to look so dull now after seeing all that great fabric people are using for their vases. I am loving this project though and seeing everybody's results.
Bonnie, I am going to attempt to explain how I was shown years ago to get sharp points. It works, takes a little practice, but you will always get a sharp point.
Start by turning the fabric back to you drawn line, hold securely between your thumb & index finger underneath. Bring needle up from behind in the fold of the fabric. I am using red thread so you can see it.
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Take a stitch directly underneath where you came up through the background, bringing the needle out in the fold 1/16" away. I am still holding the fabric securely. Once I have needle turned the fabric under, I do not release it until I have no room to sew.
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I am placing the needle here just to show you where I am going to go back down through the background. By doing it this way, the thread will actually help to turn the fabric under neatly.
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Continue to take small stitches, to within 1/4" of the point.
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When you get to within the 1/4" of the point, fold the fabric back to the point and hold it securely with your thumb, Now take 2 very tiny securing stitches, coming out directly in the tip of the point.
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Turn the work, lay your needle shaft in the fabric that is to be turned under, and begin to turn it under to the drawn line.
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I have turned under the fabric to the line, bringing the needle to the already sewn edge, I am not stitching yet, only making the turned under fabric lay flat. Secure the turned under fabric with your thumb.
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Secure the point with a tiny stitch, and start down the other side. See how sharp the point is, and it lays flat with no puckers. Notice that even though I used red thread, you can't see my stitches, because when I pulled the thread under the turned edge, it actually rolls under, hiding the stitch and helping to roll the edge smoothly.
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