Machine-Finished Hand Appliqué
Create a gorgeous appliqué quilt without touching a hand-sewing needle. Beth Ferrier shows how to achieve heirloom results with your sewing machine.
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Create a gorgeous appliqué quilt without touching a hand-sewing needle. Beth Ferrier shows how to achieve heirloom results with your sewing machine.
Making Appliqué Templates
Get to know your instructor, Beth Ferrier, as she walks you through the techniques you’ll learn in class, dicusses helpful supplies and demonstrates efficient methods for making circles and templates.
Fabric Values
Train your eye to see value in a new way as you pick up tips and tricks for choosing fabrics and color palettes that work well together.
Cutting Seam Allowances
Learn how to make clean, efficient cuts and use mitering to your advantage. In this lesson, Beth explains how to choose the best scissors for the job, cut difficult shapes using easy techniques, and work with tiny bias stems.
Glue Basting Appliqué
You’ll be glued to these basting techniques as you practice Beth’s “overs and unders” method for working with small pieces, circles and overlapping elements.
Docking the Appliqué
All the pieces come together as you learn how to line up each piece of the motif and dock them together seamlessly. You’ll be amazed when it’s complete!
Machine Finishing Appliqué
Explore the best practices for machine stitching your motifs, including bobbins, needles, feet, stitch settings and tension corrections that will set you up for success.
Designing the Appliqué Layout
Now that the motifs are ready, you get to enjoy the creative process and create gorgeous designs of your choosing! Beth shares design tips and ways to make aesthetically pleasing choices before outlining the order of stitching and ways to remove the backing.
Embellishing the Appliqué
The class wraps up with a myriad of embellishment ideas, including ways to add color and pop to your work with hand-embroidery, bobbin and thread techniques, and more!
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