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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...

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Flowers quilt in plaids

Spotlight: Kathy Doughty, Applique Artist and Quilter

When Kathy Doughty found quilting (or it found her), the floodgates opened. She hasn't stopped loving, designing and making colorful quilts ever since. With a knack for finding ways for…
Linda Cantrell The Apartment

Spotlight: Linda Cantrell, Fiber Artist

Every picture tells a story, and Linda Cantrell's pictorial quilts use humor to make you smile, guaranteed! Not only do her quilts tell stories, she loves to talk about the…
Traveling quilt

Spotlight: Mary Lou Weidman, Artist, Author, Designer, Teacher and Quilter

With a riot of color and whimsical energy, you just can't frown at a Mary Lou Weidman quilt! Mary Lou uses her quilts as a medium to tell stories, and…
Huo Long

Spotlight: Deborah Tirico, Needle Artist, Designer, Instructor and Author

Deborah Tirico layers fabric with stitches, creating vibrant, detailed designs that she stitches with precision. Her recent work with wool has a richness of depth and texture that invite the…
Cartographic Collage

Spotlight: Valerie Goodwin, Mixed Media Fiber Artist and Architect

As an architect, Valerie Goodwin is well-versed in key design principles. Bringing this formal training to her work as a fiber artist, Valerie creates art quilts inspired by maps. Her…
Karen Payton's Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Spotlight: Karen Payton, Fiber Artist Celebrating Hippies

Karen Payton combines recycled textiles, paint, fabric scraps and stitch to create portraits inspired by hippies, love, music and joy. She shops thrift stores and transforms the fabric with bold…
Janet Clare

Spotlight: Janet Clare, Textile Designer, Teacher and Author

Janet Clare has a work "uniform", her Artisan Apron, that inspires her studio practice with stitched motivations that remind her why and how to create. It must work, because Janet…
Mill Wheels VII Order Chaos

Spotlight: Lyric Kinard, Textile Artist, Author and Educator

Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students possesses. With playful support and gentle encouragement she…
Winter Penguins Banner

Seasonal Door Quilts Make the Year Go ‘Round

When I worked for a quilt shop, I made small quilts as store samples. Before long, I had a "collection". I shared most, but kept some. I like to decorate…

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