Ok, this is a really long tutorial, and since I've had a lot of PM's about the quilt in my avatar, I figured that I'd make a tutorial with a new pattern that I just made up.
Please bear with me, this is a long one.
Step 1 is to pick your pattern. You can use whatever one you want. The one I'm using is one that I just designed - called Fairy Prayers. Remember that when you do fusible applique, all your images are REVERSED!
Tracing the largest fairy - I used red so you can see
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Largest Fairy - Traced
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Fusible Is Expensive - I use as much as I can. Tracing the smaller fairy leaving only a small gap to cut
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Both Fairies Traced
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The cheap scissors I use. 99cents around back to school time.
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Picking Colors - This is leftover Fairy Frost
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Picking Color - a hand dye for a mushroom
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Picking Color - scrap piece for a mushroom
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Picking Color - Black for the shadow/silhouette of the largest fairy
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Fused on one side and cut - I leave a little bit extra so I have something to hold onto while doing the final cut
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Picking out the Background - sometimes it takes multiple tries
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Background Testing
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More background testing
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More background testing - I went with this one, it had movement but wasn't too busy
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Put the darning foot on your machine.
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Practice Placement before you fuse
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Fused to the background
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Fused to the background - and sandwhiched ready to be quilted
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If you missed this step or wanted to wait - put the darning foot on your machine
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Make your quilt sandwhich
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I chose to do micro-stippling on the mini one. I did NOT quilt on the fused applique because I wanted it to pop up and be more 3D
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Micro-Stippling
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Mini Close Up
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The Small Mini Close Up
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Larger Miniature - all over quilted and the sandwhich trimmed
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Close up of quilting
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Close up of quilting
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Then you're done - all you need to do is add a label, sleeve or corners for hanging and bind!
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