I found this stuff and am going to use it on the RR Quilt mentioned in a previous post. Has anyone used this? What were your experiences with it? Opinions?
And now ... The quilt top pictured below is large: 102" x 102" The 9-patch sashing is 9" and the star blocks are 18". It is so big it doesn't fit my design wall (which is floor to ceiling). It started as a value study and got out of hand! It has a wonderful WOW! factor from across the room but when you get up close that WOW! factor gets lost. I am thinking of appliqueing a silhouette of a couple onto this. I know there is a woman who actually does her applique after the piece is quilted and I have actually seen one of her quilts done this way. It was a medallion that was crosshatch quilted and then flowers were appliqued onto it. Now, my applique is quite a bit larger than a flower. Do you think it would work -- appliqueing a silhouette onto this after it is quilted? Lemmeno, would you:?
I love the idea of the silhouette, but I would do it before it is quilted. Otherwise it will look puffy and baggy compared to the rest of the quilt. One of my pet peves is to see a beautiful quilt at a quilt show that is quilted beautifully in most places, but is way too lightly quilted in others. Makes it look very unfinished. A quilt needs to have a balanced amount of quilting across the entire quilt. I know it seems easier to do the applique after the quilting, but I just don't think you'd like how it looks.
ReplyDeletevery pretty fabric! I followed your blog from Shelina's - I will be back!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt - perfectly pieced - NO TO APPLIQUE!
ReplyDeleteIf I were to applique a silouhette onto it, it would definately be before quilting so that it too could be quilted. (The unquilted applique only works with small pieces - IMHO & I am pictureing a big silouhette.)
Don't worry that you "lose" the wow up close.... When you do the "Tadah" people will be far enough away to see what you accomplished!
When you/they look at it up clse, it is to see the fabrics (or points/intersections), not the design.
I forgot - LOVE the lights! Nice to see that they are not WOW or COC :o) (Although those have their place too. For example, next to white quite a few of those lights could be medium.)
ReplyDeleteI think too, that a large silhouette would look baggy added after quilting, unless it was a line silhouette, not solid. Even then I think it would be hard to keep it from looking stuck on.
ReplyDeleteWhy? It is so beautiful now.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful quilt. I like the idea of appliquing a silhouette, but I guess I would put it on something with a more plainer, simpler quilt.
ReplyDeleteBut it is your quilt, and you should do what makes you happy.
OK, so I'm a bit late with your Stable Magic question, but I just hopped over here from Darcie's blog and saw the picture.
ReplyDeleteYes I've used it. I went to Paducah this year with a group of 12 other women, and one of them has used it before and loves it. So I bought some and just tried it. It was wonderful! I loved it. I love invisible machine applique except for the ripping out of the paper - so this solved that problem! It is very soft after you wash it and can't tell it was ever there. I had a tad of of trouble getting the fabric to stick to the paper with the glue stick, but not that it was a problem or trouble. It just didn't stick as easy as regular paper. I found putting the glue stick on the fabric instead of the paper helped some.
If you want to see the quilt I used it on go here:
http://dquilts.blogspot.com/2006/08/as-time-flies-by.html
It is the pomegranate one right at the top of the post.