Enhance your quilting with applique work and embroidery stitching. This art form of stitchery will add a finished touch to your hand work or machine work and have your project appear several steps above common stitchery.
Appliqué and embroidery stitching in quilting projects will add those beautiful professional finishing features which will enhance and complete your quilt design.
Contemporary quilting has taken on a more artful emergence than former years. The advancement of new technology of fabrics, notions, threads and mechanical sewing equipment and their accessories have brought new stitchery opportunities.
As you browsed among the quilts at the show admiring appliqué and embroidery stitching in quilting projects, did you notice the wide range of simple to complex stitchery? As a beginner choose simple designs until you become more skilled.
You can choose between machine and hand stitching. Your quilting project may require both methods of stitching or choose to mix and match.
The basic steps behind an appliqué is to cut out your design then turn its edges under ¼” and stitch on quilt fabric by machine or by hand. As a beginner, machine stitching on straight lines and gentle curves should be rather easy. Yes, you can glue or use a fabric blue tape, but stitching is much more secure.
Are you hand stitching?
Use a running stitch, a blind stitch, or a whipping or back stitch:
Do you have an embroidery machine?
The software has an array of stitches that you can use to outline the appliqués. Popular stitches include the satin stitch, straight, zigzag or cross stitching, border, leaf, and many other decorative stitching.
Will you be hand embroidering?
There are many embroidery stitches to select. Some of the basic stitches include single, chain, cable, feather, a variety of leaf stitches, cross-stitch, braid, and many more. Embroidery stitches are available in a wide range of simple to complex and elaborate stitchery.
There is much opportunity for variety with both appliqué and embroidery stitching in quilting projects. Your choice will be based on the type of project and your personal preferences.
Discover more about quilting. Go to the hobbies section of Infotrish at http://www.Infotrish.com and review Quilting Gems. Do download your free quilt pattern.
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