QUILTsocial Issue 5 | Page 10

Creating banners for different seasons, gives us an opportunity to explore many sewing, quilting, embroidery, and serging techniques that we may not normally try. Selecting a multitude of fabric variations gives us experience with embroidery and quilting, and we can pull out and dust off our sewing feet and see what all of their capabilities are. It’s always great to discover something new that a foot can be used for. Banner 10 QUILTsocial .com | issue 5 Creating artistic textures give our projects depth and originality. It also gives us the opportunity for exploration. Sharing ideas, and experimenting with different creative tools, crossing over from sewing, to embroidery, quilting and then including yarn art using the serger, can open up an entire new palette for quilting.