Have Your Fusible Applique Quilts Held Up to Wear & Washing?
Hi--I have been stockpiling fusible applique quilt kits, mostly Edyta Sitar's beautiful patterns and Silhouette forms, for a while now.
I would like to start making one or more of her kits but I am concerned about how well the finished bed quilt (as opposed to a wallhanging) holds up to wear and tear and washing. I assume as long as I satin stitch all the Silhouette applique pieces, the applique will hold up, but IMHO it's not the prettiest of applique stitches and I would like to vary the stitching and use blanket and tiny zigzag stitches as well. Laundry Basket Quilts has recently come out with an alternative to the Silhouettes pieces called Snippets, which include a 1/4 inch seam allowance to turn under. I think I would much prefer them to fusible pieces, but they weren't an option when I was buying these kits. It's too expensive for me to consider rebuying applique pieces with a seam allowance and my hands aren't really up to making them from scratch even if I could find enough of the right fabrics.
How satisfied are you with fusible applique methods? How have you used any of those beautiful laser cut shapes of fabric and fusible out there? Some of the pieces are quite intricate and delicate. What do you think? TIA