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Get luscious colors and textures in your quilts with 12 all-new projects from Piece O'Cake Designs. Best-selling authors Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins add felted wool appliqué to crisp cottons and linens for added dimension on quilts and home decor. Easy to stitch and easier to love, wool appliqué has no edges to turn under, making it ideal for beginners and experienced quilters! Learn about the best supplies, hand stitching methods, and quilt finishing tips.
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Contents
Acknowledgments and Dedication
Introduction
Getting Started
Basic Supplies • About Fabric Requirements • Borders
Felted Wool, Cotton, and Linen
Felted Wool or Wool Felt? • Cotton • Linen
Preparing To Stitch
Felted Wool Preparation • Always Use Fusible Web for Felted Wool Appliqué • The Best Threads to Use with Felted Wool • Cotton and Linen Fabric Preparation • Design and Audition
General Appliqué Instructions
Preparing Cotton and Linen Backgrounds • Making the Appliqué Templates • Using Templates for Fusible Appliqué • Using the Templates on Cotton to Appliqué with Attitude • Making the Positioning Overlay • Using the Positioning Overlay • Finger-press • Pressing and Trimming the Blocks
Stitches for Appliquéing with Felted Wool
Choose Thread • The Blanket Stitch • Embellish With A Stem Stitch
Special Techniques for Appliquéing with Felted Wool
Outer Points • Inner Points • Curves and Circles
Appliqué with Attitude on Cotton
The Running Stitch
Finishing Techniques
Finishing the Quilt • Quilting Felted Wool • Continuous Bias Binding • Straight-Grain Binding from Strips • Sewing Binding to the Quilt • Corded Binding
Projects
Blue Basket
Yoyo Garden Foot Warmer
Fruitful Market Basket
Strawberry Zip Bag
Strawberry Pincushions
Kitchen Quilts
Leafy Pillows
Leafy Table Topper
Jamestown Avenue
Tulips Do The Polka
Yoyo Basket
Vintage Gone Modern
About the Authors
Resources
About the author
By Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins
Summary
Get luscious colors and textures in your quilts with 12 all new projects from Piece O’ Cake Designs. Best-selling authors Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins add felted wool appliqué to crisp cottons and linens for added dimension on quilts and home decor. Easy to stitch and easier to love, wool appliqué has no edges to turn under, making it ideal for beginners and experienced quilters!
