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Appliqué

Category: <span>Appliqué</span>

Appliqué is simply applying one piece of fabric atop a larger one. With many styles to choose from, you can create realistic or abstract designs on quilts, fiber art, wearables and home dec. Do you enjoy stitching by hand, by machine or designing layers with fusible web? There are appliqué techniques and patterns to feed your joy with cotton, wool, silk and more!

Fusing

Fusible Appliqué Inspiration

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Sue Bleiweiss

Spotlight: Sue Bleiweiss, Artist, Author & Architect of Whimsical Worlds Created with Fabric and Thread

Sue Bleiweiss started quilting after an injury put a stop to her weaving passion. But with traditional quilting, there is this "following directions" thing, and that just didn't work for...

Laura Wasilowski, armchairgourmet

Spotlight: Laura Wasilowski, Textile Artist

When you see a Laura Wasilowski quilt, you can't help but smile. Her whimsical pictorial art quilts use her own hand-dyed fabrics and threads to depict fanciful scenes. Owner of the...

Unfurling

Spotlight: Frieda Anderson, Fiber Artist

Frieda Andersen is a self proclaimed "Investigator of Ideas".  With a formal education in Art History, she has always been interested in making things - using her hands and mind...

Hand Applique Inspiration

Townscape by Masako

Spotlight: Masako Wakayama, Quilter, Designer and Author

In the Japanese tradition of meticulous hand stitching, Masako Wakayama designs fresh-looking quilts using the colors of Americana. Her quilts, books and 20 years of annual fabric collections for Lecien...

Wool applique table runner by Mary Blythe

Spotlight: Mary Blythe, Author and Designer of Heirloom Handwork

With a love of antiques, creating with warm, rich wool is a natural artistic outlet for Mary Blythe. She designs heirloom projects with the future in mind, encouraging others to...

Hawaiian Breadfruit

Spotlight: Nancy Lee Chong, Appliqué Artist and Instructor

Nancy Lee Chong, Appliqué Artist and Instructor from Snohomish, WA, found her singular passion for stitching and teaching the art of needleturn appliqué, and has never looked back! The only...

More Appliqué

Double hour glass work in progress

Spotlight: Barbara Eikmeier, Quilter, Author and Fabric Designer

With multiple projects in process at any given time, it's hard to find a busier quilter than Barbara Eikmeier. Her first quilt? The Streak of Lightning pattern, of course! Barbara…
Salish

Spotlight: Sylvia Pippen, Sashiko & Applique Quilt Designer

Enter the world of Sylvia Pippen to discover intricate nature-inspired designs of rich color formed with appliqué and sashiko. She learned from the best, her mother Kitty Pippen, who encouraged…
Townscape by Masako

Spotlight: Masako Wakayama, Quilter, Designer and Author

In the Japanese tradition of meticulous hand stitching, Masako Wakayama designs fresh-looking quilts using the colors of Americana. Her quilts, books and 20 years of annual fabric collections for Lecien…
Cosmic Spirals Close up

Scrap-Happy Stash-Busting Quilts

I love scraps. To me, they are the comfort food of quilts. My first contact with quilts was not the ornate Baltimore Album quilts or the intricately hand quilted whole…
Lush Summer

Spotlight: Lucy Levenson, Folk Art Designer and Textile Artist

Her brave use of color when combining fabric, stitch and paint sets Lucy Levenson apart from the crowd. With intricate details, her fanciful work invites an up close and personal…
Mother Clucker

Spotlight: Timna Tarr, Quilt Designer and Artist

One of Timna Tarr's quilts might use hundreds of fabrics to achieve the color variation and visual texture her work is known for. That doesn't sound like a recipe for…
Spring Trio

Spotlight: Jane Sassaman, Quilt Artist and Fabric Designer

Jane Sassaman has a distinctive artistic voice that speaks clearly in her art quilts, the fabric she designs and her workshops. Her whimsical, graphic and colorful designs require a vivid…
Painted Hills art quilt completed!

Design Challenge Art Quilts

For a number of years, I have had the privilege of gathering with a talented group of fiber artists that studied with Lorraine Torrence. The "Off Grain Stitchers" continue to…
Jane Dunnewold Alliance Completed

Spotlight: Jane Dunnewold, Artist, Author, Educator

Creating is vital to the person who is Jane Dunnewold. When not experimenting with surface design techniques and materials and making textile art, she teaches others to find their creative…

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