Adventures in Applique!
 

My first applique project is complete. I learned the basics as part of a holiday quilt last year, and found this kit, Take Flight (design by Christine Echols and fabrics by Marcus Batiks) and thought it would be a good challenge. It was! It's fused/machine and I struggled with manipulating the fabric with my smaller machine. But, overall I think it was a good first go, and I really like the look, so I'll carry on, perhaps with something smaller. I have been admiring hand applique so that might be my next project.
I used 80/20 batting and stitch in the ditch, it has a nice loft and I think will make a nice lap quilt or hanging.

very nice job!!!!

I love your turtles! Nice work!

Name fits it perfectly

Cute quilt. I can't even imagine having to do a stitch around every one of those birds. You did a great job. They are birds, aren't they?

Very nice quilt.

Sweet quilt.

nicely done

That is lot of work. You did a good job. Be careful applique of any kind can be addictive. :)

Thank you, they are birds, there are 56 of them! I loved the pattern and it was when they were all fused to the fabric that it dawned on me that I'd be doing a lot of twisting and turning on the machine.

I love applique. Not saying I am good at it but I do love it.

Cute quilt!




Rob

Very interesting and unusual quilt. Enjoy!

Wow, look at all those pieces...congrats on your appliqué project.

Nicely done

Beautiful... I can see it was a lot of work!

It turned out beautiful! Awesome job!

Wow, that was some project to start learning on. You did really good, it's quite nice.

A lovely result.

Super job. Very pretty quilt. BrendaK

Hello there....from the lower mainland.... your quilt is lovely! I do quite abit of machine satin stitching appliqué but I also love hand appliqué. Welcome to many hours of fun! (to me...the machine appliqué reminds me of the hours I used to spend colouring...and now I am doing it in fabric, enjoy! )

What an interesting task,. for sure, and you did a marvelous job appliqueing all those birds.

a lot different than what I've seen. I love the images, like birds, looks like it was a lot of twisting in making it.