Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I'm working on an appliquéd wall hanging and I'm almost to the point where I need to add the flowers.
Here's my dilemma, I really want the flowers to have a slight poof to them but even the very thinnest cotton batting is too fuzzy around the edges oappliquéue.
Any brilliant ideas? Something that'll make it have just a little dimension but not be too fuzzy???
I suggest you go to the Eleanor Burns quilt in a day web site and look at her tutorials. This is how she adds dimension. She uses a method of appliqué that uses a light weight fusible inter facing. She draws the shape of an appliqué onto a piece of fabric. She then layers right side of fabric to the fusible side of interfacing. She sews all around the drawn line and trims the excess fabrics to about an eighth of an inch, she uses a pinking shears to for added give on curved pieces. She then makes a slit in the interfacing and turns the piece right side out. Smooth out the seams so the interfacing is fully on the backside and does not show. You now have a fusible appliqué. To add dimension she cuts a piece cotton batting the same shape as the final appliqué and slips it inside between the fabric and interfacing. Again smooth with a wooden skewer or wooden iron (no heat!). You then can fuse the appliqué to the quilt, overlap appliqués if you need to. You must stitch around the edge after fusing, she uses a blanket or blind hem stitch but you can use a straight stitch or a decorative stitch if that suits you. She has videos to demonstrate which are probably better than I can do. Also if you go to her media page, she has video's of many of her shows, look for one that features appliqués and watch that.