YEAH, is applique day! Applique is
one of my favorite ways to embellish
a quilt. My favorite method of applique is with fusible web and stitching
everything down with the machine.
If I had to do needle turn applique
which I think is just gorgeous we
wouldn’t finish this project quickly.
I’m going to jump right in and get
down to business with what you
should know about fusible web.
Prior to starting to build the flowers
I added Rick Rack to a quilted runner.
The green rick rack would be the
stems for each flower. And by having
it run the total width of the runner
it wouldn’t matter which way you
were looking at the runner as there
would be no top or bottom. It would
look the same from either side.
Rick rack sewn to quilted runner
What you should
know about
fusible web
Jennifer Houlden
What fusible do you use?
There are many different manufacturers
of fusibles on the market and each one
says it’s the best. I’m going to work with
and talk about the HeatnBond family of
fusible web. Even the choices within the
HeatnBond family are many.
HeatnBond Fusibles
Ultrahold – this product is a no sew
product and has a very strong bond and
work swell on medium to heavy weight
materials
Lite – this product is made especially for
light and medium weight fabrics with a
special formula for securing these fabrics
onto other fabric surfaces – they then
can be machine or hand sewn around
the raw edge
Feather Lite – this product has a strong
bond and is very light weight resulting
in very little stiffness added to the project – great for layering applique shapes
These three products come either as
a sheet, on a roll or by the yard. And
to make things easy to distinguish the
different products each package is a
different color.
After reviewing the three different products I decided to use the Lite version of
HeatnBond.
Photos by Jennifer Houlden.
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