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Hi it’s Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. We’re here to talk about appliqué.
For some of you that’s an overwhelming term, but I want to show you how easy it is, and
how quickly you can do it. This first example is a little pieced quilt with Yo-Yos on it.
Even though a Yo-Yo doesn’t look like an appliqué piece, you attach it the same way
that you do with appliqué. Appliqué is any time you attach something on top of your base
fabric. It’s not pieced in, it’s actually on top. Let’s look at some other examples.
These are Dresden plates, for those of you who know me; you know I’m a little Dresden
crazy. These are again attached on top of the fabric, you use the same stitch, and so
if you’re sewing any of these little things on like this, you are already appliquéing.
This piece right here I have sewn on with the sewing machine. That’s machine appliqué.
It’s just as easy as that.
So let’s look here. This is a different process. This is a process known as needle
turn appliqué. You can’t see any of the stitches on top; it’s still done by hand.
This type of appliqué starts to look a little bit more overwhelming. This is actually for
a quilt I’m working on. Jan Patek teaches here with us, and she does a lot of needle
turn appliqué, and this is for a quilt that I am working on for one of her classes, and
it’s all little hand-sewn pieces under there. It begins to look a little overwhelming under
there, but you have to remember, it’s one piece at a time, one
little block at a time, it’s not hard at all.
Here’s one of Jan’s quilts that’s a little more intimidating, but again, it’s
one little star, and seriously, when you learn with the needle turn appliqué when you are
doing it by hand and sewing it with needle and thread, when you learn to do a point and
you learn to do a curve, there isn’t anything you can’t do in appliqué.
Now this right here looks like a fun really cute stand alone little baby quilt made with
a jellyroll, but look what happens when we add this little appliqué on the bottom. This
is machine appliqué, and we’ve added some sailboats on here, and it adds an entirely
different element. It is absolutely adorable. We’ve just machine stitched across this
with a buttonhole stitch. You can use any kind of stitch, and it adds so much to this
darling little quilt.
We hope you enjoyed this quick overview on appliqué from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.