Trapunto quilt

How to sew Trapunto and shadow trapunto quilts-tutorials, tips and tricks and 3 free designs.

Trapunto technique emphasizes parts of a design using a double layer of batting under in certain areas and a single layer elsewhere. Learn how to do it by machine in this article!

As promised last week in my unveiling of the Snowflake Trapunto pillow, here’s a tutorial on how to do trapunto quilting. Trapunto quilting, or “stuffed” quilting, is super simple…

I featured my good friend Karen Azevedo this past August and showed her just completed boutis quilt. Seems there has been a lot of interest lately about this type of work. I have several boutis books and love them because of the incredible paper patterns that I trace on vintage linens and free motion quilt. Karen d

Well, this is eggciting...! I used up more scraps ;) I know, you're shocked. It's been a lot of years since I've done the trapunto technique, and I thought this would be a fun way to show you how it works. Trapunto is essentially a stuffing technique that will add dimension to your quilt or projectI pieced the tiniest scraps together, and sewed them between some narrow scrap strips to make patches that were at least 5½” x 8”.I traced this egg shape on each patch and cut them out. Here is a…

Quilt fabrics are not limited to cottons and block background colors don’t strictly have to be white or even a solid color. These examples will give you some different ideas for choosing fabrics for your quilting projects. Thinking out of the box when choosing your fabrics can make an ordinary project quite spectacular. Batiks Crazy … Continue reading "How to Choose Quilting Fabrics"

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