The fusible web allows you to easily secure the appliqué in place for stitching, leaving a raw edge that you can cover with a variety of decorative hand or machine stitches. All the designs shown here use this easy technique. This technique works well with 100% cotton for the appliqué pieces.
HOW TO MAKE APPLIQUE USING SEWART FULL
Meg is a great teacher, and her appliqué primer section has a wealth of information full of all the different ways to do appliqué broken down with step-by-step photos.īelow is her simple technique for doing raw or unfinished-edge appliqué with paper-backed fusible web for the template material. For you Anthropologie fans out there, her projects have that same combination of modern-style-meets-retro charm.
I got some great ideas for appliqué projects from Meg McElwee and her book Sew Liberated. And appliqué is such a fun and easy technique, I guarantee you will become addicted to it once you start! I love the challenge of making something only from what I have on hand, forcing me to come up with creative combinations of fabrics. I’ve added appliqué to skirts, bags, scarves, pillows, and even small gift items such as fabric journal covers, baby toys, and handmade cards. Īppliqué is the perfect way to use up fabric odds and ends and customize a project at the same time.
Tie-Back Floor Pillow Cover from Sew Liberated. Since I primarily sew garments and accessories, what do I do with all these small bits of cloth? I have a continually growing stash of pretty fabric scraps left over from large projects combined with fat quarters of cotton prints I simply couldn’t resist sampling.