Enhance your appliqué abilities with author and pattern designer Amanda Murphy. Start with the mesmerizing Swirl Quilt and learn to sew internal and external curves and corners with confidence. Make a sweet and stylish Cutting Garden Runner as you window your fusible interfacing to bust the bulk. Sew the vibrant Flower Power Pillow and discover three ways to make bias bars as well as tips for adding eye-catching detail with specialty stitches. Finish with the Hawaiian Table Topper, where you’ll bring lovely loft to your work with a trapunto technique. Plus, get lots of quilting ideas for accentuating your work. Combine techniques to capture beautiful imagery and tremendous texture in your most intriguing appliqué projects yet.
Class Sessions
Swirls Quilt
28:08
Meet quilting instructor and sewer Amanda Murphy as you dive into the first of 20 techniques you'll learn in class. Start off with a gorgeous swirl-pattern quilt as Amanda shows you how to work with a swirls template, choose the best threads for the job, and stitch concave and convex turns.
Cutting Garden Runner
30:45
Start a whimsical floral table runner project with Amanda's tips and tricks for success along the way. You'll measure and cut your fabric and learn the best ways to incorporate fusible web as Amanda explains how to window an appliqué design.
Assembling the Runner
31:39
Assemble the table runner you started in Lesson 2 as you learn how to piece your triangles, appliqué across seams and join the runner's panels together. You'll also pick up tips for using a light box (or window) to align your appliqué before sewing and hiding your threads neatly.
Flower Power Pillow
34:24
Dive into a new project: a vibrant flower-adorned appliqué pillow. Discover how to cut, sew and press bias bars as Amanda demonstrates multiple techniques for working with bias tape. Align and fuse your flowers with precision and ease as you learn new quilting techniques along the way.
Finishing the Pillow
31:30
Assemble the Flower Power pillow top and back as you play with a variety of stitches. Amanda walks you through helpful tips to create a stitch bible and implement the exact stitches you need, with tips for thread types, tension and a wide variety of design elements.
Hawaiian Table Topper
32:47
Discover ways to create trapunto and yo-yo techniques with a colorful Hawaiian Table Topper project. Amanda shows you how to prepare and sew the pieces before creating the puffy look of the trapunto appliqué. She finishes the topper by adding easy-to-make yo-yo embellishments that encircle the trapunto.
Emphasize Your Appliqué
21:27
Amanda wraps up the class with a show-and-tell of a wide variety of quilting options you can choose from. Learn new ways to quilt echoes, free-form patterns, motifs and other details that you'll love applying to any future quilting projects.
Your Instructor
Amanda Murphy
A lifelong sewer, Amanda Murphy discovered quilting after moving to North Carolina with her family. Quilting combined Amanda's education in design with her love of handwork, and her growing collection of wonderful quilts led her to create Amanda Murphy Design. She has designed several fabric lines for Blend fabrics and her own full-color pattern line highlighted by clear, graphic diagrams. Her first embroidery collection, Modern Blossoms, is based on some of these quilting collections. Amanda is also the author of two books, Modern Holiday, and Color Essentials.
Bonus Material
20 Fresh Applique Techniques - Patterns and Templates
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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