Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Fun with Appliqué!

This is my first attempt at appliqué. It is part of an apron project and I will post complete photos here very soon.



Drawing on instructions from several books, I applied interfacing to stiffen the (pear) fabric and trimmed the image, leaving about half an inch all the way around.

I pinned the piece securely to the background (green) fabric. I machine stitched in a straight line around the shapes, then re-stitched with a tight zig-zag. I hand-stitched the stem and right leaf to avoid closing off part of the pocket.

Once all the stitching was done, I carefully snipped away the extra fabric with a small pair of scissors.

You can click the photo to see a larger image.

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