I was working on something pretty darn cute last night and today. If you know me, you know I can hardly make a quilt project start to finish without at least a bit of applique. Well, this morning I decided to use a bit of fused applique with some pre-fused gold lame’ fabric. I dug into my basket that you may remember from this post.
Anyway, after cutting out, tracing my words and fusing the piece down (in a bit of a hurry to have some relevant hand work to work on at my guild meeting this morning) to my annoyance I noticed the lame was very thin and the layer below was very obvious, ugh!!!
It’s was so obvious, even the stitching showed. This is actually a reenactment, the original problem child has already been disciplined!
What did I do to remedy this you ask?
Well, like I said I was in a bit of a hurry and I’d already fused the piece of lame’ down tight and stitched it too! So, I took the pre-fused lame’ from the basket again and cut yet another piece. I then pulled my light box back out and quickly traced my design again, and fused the new piece right over the unsightly one.
See how nicely it turned out? Isn’t the lame perfect for a Christmas tag? I did the stitching of the words during our meeting this morning. You can’t even tell that it’s actually two layers where the gift tag is, not even in real life where I sit, and I’m very particular. You might even say I’m a bit determined!?!
This will be a new pattern for market soon and when I go to write the instructions for “Clare’s Christmas Puppy” (my daughter drew the dog a couple of years ago) I will write in the pattern to fuse two layers of fabric together if using thin lame like this so you don’t have the same issue that I faced this morning. This is not an isolated case really. I remember the first time I was faced with this scenario, it was when I created my “Bunnies in the Grass” pattern that is showing in my header above right now. I used a white on white print originally for the bunnies and where the same fabric was layered over itself it was very unsightly! I’ve steered away from very light applique shapes ever since. Now you can be aware of this too.
I just remembered the black fabric was just purchased yesterday, isn’t it cool? It’s part of a new collection by Quilting Treasures and you know what I didn’t do? Here’s a clue. I gotta go, work to do…
Until next time,
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 