Once the appliqué is down, I illustrate the image.
I call it ‘Drapplique’ (Drawing and Appliqué)
Tag: Appliqué
My Applique Techniques – Capture and Create.
I’ve had quite a few requests to add more about my appliqué method… to be honest its probably the same as everyone elses but I do have a lot of images on my computer so I thought I would add that so that its self explanatory.
Yet another creative day.
The forecast is for snow again today…. it just sort of floated through the air yesterday but the temp will be just above zero for the next few days. I had a busy and fulfilling day. The show opened and the winners were on view, the quilts are just beautiful. I had little time to…
Still quilting.
I'm having difficulty with the 'composition' link on my blog…. its really frustrating and takes ages to get a blog published. I think it must be a problem with the workings of Typepad. I've been up in the wee hours working on the quilting of this piece. I probably have about another 20 hours of…
Drawing the quilts.
The quilts will feature fabric designed from the letters, so for instance the blue fabric in the some of the blocks will look like the knitted sweater, there will even be holes in it…
The red and white will be the same as the legs and there will be illustrated applique blocks of unusual apple trees in some of the blocks.