A few months ago I stumbled upon a trunk show hosted by Shannon Brinkley, creator of the Scrappy Appliqué Method. I fell in love with the technique and made this mini as a trial run, knowing Amaya was going to be my first larger project.
Because this is a mini, I used the quilting to hold the pieces down (they have fusible interfacing on them too) If it was a useable quilt, I would have done extra stitching before quilting.
I made this for an IG swap but haven’t decided if I’m parting with her yet. It’s a raffle style swap and we can choose to keep our own creation if there’s nothing else that catches our eye.
This is beautiful! That white background is perfect for letting all the rainbow colors shine! I absolutely love the scrappiness of this. I vote that you keep it!
I have questions. This is so cool! The first one you made as a practice (the amazing cat) looked like the applique was under the white quilting. But this one looks like it is on top. Am I seeing it correctly? Is that what is happening?
I love them both. The colors and transitions are beautiful.
Since the cat was my first project, I did exactly as the course taught. After making the cat on fusible web, I ironed it on the white background, straight stitched it with invisible thread and outlined with zigzag all before making the quilt sandwich. When I did the white quilting, I skipped going over the cat and just quilted on the white.
I had done a lot more reading on this method by the time I was quilting Amaya and realized I could skip a few steps since it’s a wall quilt. After making her on fusible web, I cut and ironed each piece in its proper place. Then I made the quilt sandwich and used invisible thread to do wavy vertical lines over everything, then added straight horizontal lines across the zebra only.
Yes. And I can tell that there is a zig zag stitch for the cat now. For some reason, I thought it was under the white and the white part was cut out.
Thank you for sharing.