Put Your Skills To Work
Practice your favorite type of appliqué stitches on these great projects! Use the technique that is easiest for you. The methods are interchangeable.
Quilt designer: Pat Sloan
Quilt Name: Sidewalk Café, Quilts and More, Spring 2006
"Sidewalk Café" gives you an opportunity to practice your fusible appliqué skills with this whimsical cup-and-saucer motif wall hanging. Making one cup into a coaster would be a great way to see how you like doing machine blanket-stitching.
Quilt designer: Natalie Lahner of The Quilt Box
Quilt Name: Grandmother’s Legacy, Quilt Sampler 1995
In "Grandmother’s Legacy," larger appliqué pieces will make the stitching a little easier for a beginner. A larger center block is set on point, making the bouquet the focus of this 88" square quilt.
Quilt Name: Tulip Bowl, American Patchwork & Quilting, June 1995
Based on a Mountain Mist quilt kit from 1935, appliqué projects such as Tulip Bowl were marketed in kit form by catalogs and department stores during the 1920s and ’30s. Choose just one block and make a pillow.
Quilt designers: Tammy Johnson and Avis Shirer of Joined at the Hip
Quilt Name: Rickrack Tulips, Quilts and More, 2005
For an updated tulip quilt, designers Tammy Johnson and Avis Shirer of Joined at the Hip used fusible appliqué and machine blanket stitching to make this charming garden of year-round tulips. Rickrack adds a ruffled edge to each flower center for a touch of whimsy.
Quilt designer: Pat Sloan
Quilt Name: Star-Power Pouch, Quilting Ideas, Fall 2003
You can never have too many bags! The "Star-Power Pouch" provides inspiration to make the bag with hand or machine appliqué, using your choice of wool or cotton for the shapes.
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