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Blooming Flowers: Added Dimension by Machine
All Levels - 6hours
All times are Local: 9 am - 4 pm
Location: Lebanon Valley Expo Center
Workshop: Blooming Flowers: Added Dimension by Machine
Learn how fun and easy machine reverse appliqué can be while you create a beautiful 16” flower from Eye of the Beholder’s Victorian Flower Garden series. See how the beauty of reverse applique with applique brings your flower dramatically alive with color, value and contrast. Each flower makes a 16” square that may be a block in a quilt or finished as a pillow to decorate your sofa. When you trace, snip, iron & stitch, it’s fun, speedy, and easy!
Come join the fun! I will lead you step by step through the process. Learn how easy it is to get sharp points, crisp corners, and graceful curves. You will love the satin stitch results you get after we’ve practiced on the Practice pattern. Be empowered to reverse appliqué by machine and enjoy revealing the beauty as you stitch!
How to choose the flower pattern that’s right for you.:
For the Brand New Beginner we recommend you choose the Trumpet Vine with its big spaces and graceful curves. For the beginner you may also choose either Lily, Rose, Sunflower, Apple Blossom, or Fuchsia. Each with large spaces, yet with some challenges of small circles and inside points to help you grow in your skills. (Flowers pictured on the right in order from top to bottom).
For the Advanced stitcher you can also choose either Forget-Me-Not, which has a multitude of tiny petals with curves and points that are close together, or Thistle, which has lots of leaves with acute inside and outside points. Iris, the pattern we recommend for the intermediate stitcher, has bigger spaces with a little bit of everything and only one challenging section, making it a bit easier than the other two patterns. (See page 2, in order, top to bottom.)
If you want to learn a bit about this technique before the workshop, check out our Tutorials section on the website: Machine Reverse Appliqué with Appli-Quilting tutorial.
See below for downloadable Workshop preparation/materials list and Preparation list. It’s essential that you pre-cut as there will not be time in the workshop to do this, so this will help us make best use of our time together. All links open in a new window.
There are required Materials. The fee for these materials is iin addition to your class fee and must be purchased from this website.
There is preparation to be done before class.
required Workshop Supply List.
Required materials / Kits Information Available for Students.
Recommended items:
Why Do We Recommend These Specific Supplies? Read More About It Here In This PDF.
Kai scissors, bent, sharp tipped
Flexi Fuse
Terial Magic
Hand-polished and with soft ergonomic grip handles, Kai Scissors are made in Japan of fine stainless steel with vanadium. These scissors are specially balanced to allow for fatigue-free cutting on all types of fabrics. Hardened stainless steel blades offer superior cutting action.
4 inch, bent handled scissors with sharp points. Allowed by most airlines when you travel.
My scissor of choice for Machine Reverse Applique. Super sharp, detailed tips are perfect for cutting fused material without dulling. They poke cleanly into your fused material with ease. The bent-handle keeps your cutting hand off your work allowing you to have great control and visibility to cut precisely into corners and along drawn lines.
They are also fabulous for Hardanger, cutwork and cutting out buttonholes, as well as removing satin stitches from embroidery designs.