20 Fresh Appliqué Techniques

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Unlock appliqué bliss as you breeze through advanced fusible techniques. Let your appliqué skills bloom through four fresh, charming projects.

Swirls Quilt

Meet quilting instructor and sewer Amanda Murphy as you dive into the first of 20 techniques you’ll learn in class. Start off with a gorgeous swirl-pattern quilt as Amanda shows you how to work with a swirls template, choose the best threads for the job, and stitch concave and convex turns.

Cutting Garden Runner

Start a whimsical floral table runner project with Amanda’s tips and tricks for success along the way. You’ll measure and cut your fabric and learn the best ways to incorporate fusible web as Amanda explains how to window an appliqué design.

Assembling the Runner

Assemble the table runner you started in Lesson 2 as you learn how to piece your triangles, appliqué across seams and join the runner’s panels together. You’ll also pick up tips for using a light box (or window) to align your appliqué before sewing and hiding your threads neatly.

Flower Power Pillow

Dive into a new project: a vibrant flower-adorned appliqué pillow. Discover how to cut, sew and press bias bars as Amanda demonstrates multiple techniques for working with bias tape. Align and fuse your flowers with precision and ease as you learn new quilting techniques along the way.

Finishing the Pillow

Assemble the Flower Power pillow top and back as you play with a variety of stitches. Amanda walks you through helpful tips to create a stitch bible and implement the exact stitches you need, with tips for thread types, tension and a wide variety of design elements.

Hawaiian Table Topper

Discover ways to create trapunto and yo-yo techniques with a colorful Hawaiian Table Topper project. Amanda shows you how to prepare and sew the pieces before creating the puffy look of the trapunto appliqué. She finishes the topper by adding easy-to-make yo-yo embellishments that encircle the trapunto.

Emphasize Your Appliqué

Amanda wraps up the class with a show-and-tell of a wide variety of quilting options you can choose from. Learn new ways to quilt echoes, free-form patterns, motifs and other details that you’ll love applying to any future quilting projects.