quilt3311

Of course your work is applique, there are lots and lots of ways to do applique and raw edge is one of them. I love applique, but hand work is difficult for me because of my hands. I do turned applique using Sharon Schamber methods. You use a dissoluble interfacing cut to your pieces shape, then cut fabric a scant 1/4" larger, using glue stick you turn the fabric over the interfacing, then glue in place ( use just a dab of Elmers school glue, hit with hot iron to dry the glue)and machine stitch around the piece. I try to match the fabric with thread color and use a very tiny zig zag stitch to fasten it down. It looks like hand work, but its all done by machine.

quilt3311

oops, forgot, this quilt was done completely by machine using the method I described before.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t141940.html

earlori7

I am glad you have started this post. My DIL purchased a Christmas quilt kit called The Night Before Christmas. She saw the completed quilt in her local quilt shop hanging on the wall and being newly married my son said "oh honey sure you can buy it". LOL Anyway, after only doing a few additions on the first block she gave this very expensive kit to me to complete. There are 12 fourteen inch blocks with many, many small pieces to be hand turned. A real challenge. There is a blog about it with pictures of the completed quilts. I have had the kit for over two years and have completed 6 of the blocks. However, my life is so busy and I always have other projects I am working on so....maybe by Christmas of 2013 I can hang this very large quilt on the wall for a Chrismas decoration. Thanks again for starting this.

Jackie Spencer

I love the look of applique and love doing it. I have done fusible applique with a button hole stitch by hand and freezer paper applique, I do not like needle turn.

sailsablazin

DITTO, I would like this site also....really want to learn this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

DoxieFive

Learning to applique has been on my bucket list for a long time. At the Houston show I stared for a long time at the beautiful Baltimore Album quilts and said to myself that I have to do one. I would love to chit chat about applique and to learn all I can. Count me in!

dunnfamily

I am doing alot of research now, quess, I just need to dive in and get started. Glad to see so many others are thinking the same thing. Would love to chat about applique.

missy miss

I love to applique and have more patterns than I can finish in a lifetime.
I am attracted to them like a moth to the flame.
I have four projects going now.

Betty J

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mP57lDItI

I found this U tube demonstration for machine applique that is very good and may be of interest.

However, I have done quite a lot of satin stitch and blanket stitch machine applique as well as buttonhole hand applique and raw edge machine applique. I began machine applique in the early 1980's. I have learnt techniques for different kinds of machine applique. I have even taught several classes in basic machine applique and would be happy to post some of my notes.

Since owning acomputerised embroidery machine, I do a lot of in the hoop applique deigns that have been digitized.

I am posting a few pictures of my applique on clothing that I made approximately 20 years ago. The applique nastursians are cut work applique. I wore this outfit to death and still have it packed away. I used to make and applique childrens clothing.

The Cot Quit, Floor Quilt and Nappy Bag were made for my fist Grandson who is almost 18.

thepolyparrot

On one of my applique projects, I am not removing any of the fabric from the back - the pieces are small and leaving the background in place supports them better.

On another, the underlying stems show through the flowers and being folded edge bias strips, they will eventually cause wear lines on the flowers, so I am cutting out the area behind those flowers. Then the flower prints are showing through the solid centers, so I'm cutting out the print fabric behind those pieces, too. I'm leaving all the fabric behind the leaves and stems, but removing the fabric behind these flowers makes the blocks much nicer looking.

Plus, it leaves me the option of adding an extra layer of batting under the flowers - I still have seven more of these blocks to finish before I have to decide, but I think it might be a nice textural element to have that extra little bit of dimension behind these flowers.