ckcowl

I have made two of Edyta's bed quilts. I never satin stitch my appliques, don't like the look or the heavy stiff stitches. I generally use a small blanket stitch, once in awhile a small zigzag. The quilts hold up fine. Of course they are Not utility quilts that are dragged around and laundered frequently. Generally my appliqued quilts are only laundered once or twice a year.

Alice PD

Kindleaddict63, I loved your post! Thank you. That was a really nice thing to share and with such humor.

kathy

you do not have to do satin stitch, I use just a small zigzag, pretty close but not satin, you will have a little fuzz around the applique but it will not come off and looks perfectly fine.

Dollyo

WOW!!!! That is one exquisite quilt.

coffeecozy

[ATTACH=CONFIG]522879[/ATTACH] a picture is worth a thousand words

coffeecozy

Ok so I was tried to add my explanation to my picture but my computer and I are not working well together today.
The picture is a placemat that I made to practice some stitching and quilting. The zig-zag stitching has held up the best. The button hole stitching is fraying quite a bit. The stem stitching really surprised me, it is just an angled zig-zag and yet it has frayed so badly the stem is coming loose.
If I want something to hit the laundry often I will use a zig-zag, even a small fairly open one seems to work well.

ontheriver

One of my first quilts made about 10 years ago had appliqué stars, I just zig zagged around them. This is an everyday throw, has been washed about 30 times, the stars are still going strong, none coming loose or fraying.

Weezy Rider

I made a small applique and installed it on the front of a sweatshirt. I did satin stitch, and the shirt lasted for over 15 years before the fabric pulled out of the stitching. It got washed more frequently than a quilt.

KalamaQuilts

There are a lot of different brands strengths of fusible, and a lot of different instructions for using them, and then for quilting the results might depend also on prewashed fabric vs. fabric that still has all the factory finishes on it, whether they are attached to knit shirts or cotton shirts... so it is probably a kind of apples and oranges question

There is a new thread today about laser cutting machines, so there may be helpful responses there.

mike'sgirl

Applique, your quilt is beautiful.