A common quilting style for this is to stitch-in-the-ditch, or in each seam. So, after stitching your pieces together (and pressing in between each seam) you’ll have a finished block with the seams sandwiched between the paper and the fabric block! It’s a really interesting quilting technique. Each line on the template represents where the seam will be. You’ll start with 1 and work your way up from there. These numbers are similar to a paint-by-numbers kit. It’s helpful to think of the printed side of the template as the “wrong side” and the empty side as the “right side” of a fabric (like when you are sewing two pieces of fabric together). To paper piece, you’ll start by printing out templates. Paper piecing is great because it allows you to get perfectly crisp points and you can make some amazing shapes and designs using it! The idea is quite amazing and once you get the hang of it, paper piecing is a really quick way to quilt and efficient at using up old fabric scraps! Below is a basic summary, but for more on how to get started with paper piecing, take a look at my post, A Beginner’s Guide to Paper Piecing. OK-I lied-paper piecing is my favorite type of quilting! There’s just great things about all of these techniques, and each has its own benefits. Now it’s time to stitch around the edges to hold everything in place! For a full interfacing appliqué tutorial, make sure to hop on over to Connecting Threads-they have a great explanation along with pictures! Paper Pieced Quilts Then a snip in the middle of the interfacing allows your to turn it right side out. With right sides together, you’ll stitch around the edge using 1/4 seam. It’s very simple: you start by cutting out your fabric and a matching piece of lightweight interfacing.
The interfaced quilting technique works well on larger pieces without sharp angles (like circles) and ensures that your appliqué won’t fray and will hold its shape (though I’ve never had a problem with the raw edge technique). Make sure to check this construction quilt out! In my quilting I certainly don't worry too much about rules and strict definitions, and I'm perfectly happy to go around annoying serious quilters saying things like "loopy meandering", but I don't want to lead you astray. Apparently I don't get to redefine words arbitrarily as the mood strikes me.My Building Blocks quilt uses both piecing and appliqué, but raw edge appliqué is the majority of the quilt. But it's true, only some of them meet the definition of "meandering". All the designs in this post proceed in a meandering fashion, and so they are filed in the same place in my head. Just wanted to clarify this for your followers. Barb brings up a good point. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't meet the definition of meandering. Stitching is.regulated in order to have equally-distanced, non-crossing (and non-touching) stitching overall." Many of the examples you posted today are beautiful filler designs for quilting but are not technically meandering since the lines cross each other. To be precise, ".stippling and meandering are the same thing, but meandering is on a larger scale and stippling is very concentrated stitching.
Oh, and I'd suggest working from the inner edge toward the outer edge, to decrease the potential for puckers.įinally, I would be remiss if I didn't let you know what BarbH had to say about the post on meandering designs.
Browse our selection of helpful quilting stencils and templates, designed to make your quilting life easier. It has confused many beginning quilters into thinking that we are not supposed to ever cross our lines of quilting. It's important to note that this is a specific rule only to Stippling. I try to swing out in arcs occasionally to leave pockets to come back and fill in, though that is easier to practice in larger spaces than we have on this little quilt. Vintage Kite Quilt Block Foundation Paper - 4' Blocks. The rule behind Stippling is very simple: Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn't cross itself. I try to work in a way that is not straight up and down or side to side. I always get myself into trouble by continuing to stitch beyond that moment of “oh no! too fast!”Proceeding with your stitching in a way that doesn’t look repetitive can be a challenge. You should try and have an idea where you’re going next and if you suddenly don’t know where you’re going, stop stitching and reassess the situation. Too fast and you’ll feel like you’re riding a wild horse. Too slow and your curves will look jerky. My advice about meandering is to go at a medium to fast speed.