Applique My Way

Pieced heart applique block

As my regular readers know, the word "applique" makes me nervous.  It is the one quilty technique that cause all kinds of consternation for me.  So many of you do this so effortlessly, that I always feel all thumbs when I look at any pattern that requires even the most basic applique.

Here is a method I have started using that I actually enjoy!

 

For this I use a light fusible interfacing, but I do not fuse it to the back.

 

I cut a piece of fusible the same size and shape that I want my applique to be.

 

For this heart shaped applique, I cut the shape after I stitched, but for circles and other shapes I often cut them both the beforehand.

 

 

For this heart I used a pieced square

 

paper template on interfacing

 

cut

 

pinned

 

stitched

 

trimmed to shape

 

 

I cut a hole in the middle of the interfacing.

 

opening cut in interfacing

 

Turn right side out and smooth into shape

 

front

 

cut background fabric square

 

 

Fold background block to center applique.

 

 

 Press front to background

 

 

Press back

 

 

Applique success!

 

 

Ready to finish!

 

I will stitch around this applique with a bling hand stitch or maybe use  a machine decorative stitch.

 

If you are as timid about applique as I am, I hope you will find this method easy and give it a try,

 

I am using this method for my current quilt test project, which has applique circles and plan to use it again soon for another project.

 

More applique posts coming soon to my scrapatch!

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Thanks for visiting today!

 

:)