Need ideas to embellish a very plain quilt
I'm making a quilt that has very plain 6inch off white blocks. Since my fmq is not good, I want to embellish it to spruce it up. Any ideas are appreciated.
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Appliqué or a couched design with specialty string/wool might work.
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How about appliquéing fall leaves, one to a block.
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Can you embroider it or take it to be embroidered?
I also saw these really cool iron-on color transfer sheets. You can cut them out in any shape you like, iron them on & the shape & color transfers over to the fabric. http://www.designdye.com/ You might also try some trapplique. Yes, it does involve a bit of FMQ, but imho, it's much easier than trying to FMQ the entire quilt. |
Applique something in each block with any design coordinating with your fabric.
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If your sewing machine has decorative stitches, in a wavy line up and down the quilt use one of them. Maybe even use several of them. A wavy line is reasonably easy to do.
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Sometimes "plain and simple" is perfectly wonderful and/or appropriate!
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I saw one from Charismah that was from a while ago. She had done the very same thing and then used earth-toned Dresdens, a few scattered here and there, and they weren't all the same size or alike in design. Very pretty and effective!
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how about fabric paint? I had fun one fall using autumn leaves and paint to stamp fabric. Mix the colors of paint right on the leaf.
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Appliques are nice & give you about any theme you want for it. I'm getting better, but started my FMQ with meandering because it just looked like puzzle pieces to me. I sometime find a design I like, print it out the size I want for the space & either tape the copies together and pin to quilt after which I just sew right over the lines on the paper, making sure to remove the pins as I go. After a while, you can do that design without papers I find. :-) At least it gives you options...
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