Originally Posted by
Tartan
There were several methods for putting the “stuffed” areas of trapunto. Some used string on a needle to stuff vines and channels. Some slit the back of a top under the appliqué and put in bits of batt and then hand stitched the slit closed before making the quilt sandwich. They then usually did lots of quilting around the trapunto to make them pop.
your description for stuffed work is what my grandmother, who raised me, taught me when i was very young. i went to live with her at age 5. she called it stuffed work. she didn't teach me trapunto, the technique of pulling yarn thru raised quilted areas & she didn't use the technique in quilt i inherited from her estate. she seemed to enjoy complex piecing more than fancy work. except when it came to her cut-work, which i was learning too.