Category: Fusible Applique Quilts (Page 3 of 3)

Image of Fusible Applique QuiltsMake fast fusible applique quilts with both beautiful sides of one focus fabric!

First find a focus fabric you love for your fusible applique quilt pattern. Next, audition both sides of it. Likewise, choose background fabrics, auditioning them with your focus fabric. It’s that easy to make these fun quilts!

Fusible applique quilts from templates.

Unlike the broderie perse quilt patterns, these quilts are made using only paper drawings, or templates, of the featured subject. It’s as easy as first tracing the templates onto the paper side of your fusible and pressing it to your fabric. Next, cut the fabric drawings and position them on your scrappy background fabrics. Quilts from templates are the fastest way to use both beautiful sides of fabric.

Auditioning both sides of fabric.

Surprisingly, it often takes longer to choose your fabrics for these fusible applique quilts than it does to piece the backgrounds and press on your design. Of course, it all starts with a great focus fabric. In the quilt photos above you’ll see fishbones for the baby octopus, camouflage for the deer, pink floral for the flamingo, and a snowy red for the Merry quilt pattern,  the Christmas truck. It’s fun to find interesting focus fabrics. In each pattern, you will have a guide for auditioning both your focus and your backgrounds fabrics. They key to using both sides is in testing the values of your fabrics. Once you know how, you can apply your new skill to all your future quilt projects.

Discover the nuances of value as you learn to audition both beautiful sides of fabric for fusible applique quilts.

Fusible applique quilts make the best gifts and seasonal decorations. They are easy to make and whip up in a jiffy. Learn more about using both sides of fabric to add sparkle and interest to your quilts!

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JOY Quilted Wall Hanging Pattern

November 6, 2017 /

JOY is a quilted wall hanging pattern which uses both sides of one focus fabric on a wintery background.

Joy: cheer, glee, gladness, festivity, jubilance, exultation

This #usebothsides pattern was one of my first designs. See more than 40 patterns now in my Etsy Shop: CreativeBeeStudios.

See Christmas Quilts in July for a smaller quilted wall hanging pattern made with broderie perse and one focus fabric!

There are many, MANY Christmas fabrics which would make a great JOY quilted wall hanging.

You can choose modern circles, snowflakes, poinsettias, cookie cutters, etc. Each gives a different feel to this Christmas tree wall hanging. The trick is to find a focus fabric you love whose reverse side sparkles -but with a lesser value.

I happened to find one that gives a vintage flair to the quilt. These vintage glass ornaments sparkle on both sides of the Hoffman Digital Spectrum fabric called All Aglow Christmas.

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Now take a look at this focus fabric!

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Make this JOY with Hoffman’s Supernova Seasons panel!

This version features a lighter, snowy background. You’ll see cardinals on a lighted wire and little red trucks. Both accent strips are reversed to let the focus fabric shine.

Shuffle through your Christmas stash and make up some JOY to make the Christmas season bright!

Give a little JOY this Christmas season!

What kind of fabric would you use for a JOY tree? When do you start your Christmas decorating or festivities?

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Something’s Brewing Wall Hanging

October 2, 2017 /

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

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Something’s Brewing, all right, with this Halloween wall hanging!

This Halloween wall hanging is spooky fun to make.

What is this Halloween wall hanging quilt?

First, Something’s Brewing features a bubbling cauldron. The cauldron stands on two honey-buzzard claw feet. There’s even a broomstick to stir the pot! Bubbles and steam boil over the top and edges onto the fun background fabrics!

How is Something’s Brewing made?

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Something’s Brewing Quilt Pattern

Most importantly, this quilted Halloween wall hanging is made using both SPOOKY sides of one focus fabric. The cauldron is shown made from the RIGHT sides of a black fabric with white spider webs. However, the bubbles and steam are made from the REVERSE of the same focus fabric. Make the binding with the same fabric, as well.

The pattern comes complete with a full-size paper template.

Secondly, make the quilt using easy and fast fusible applique techniques.

Value is the key to unlock the magic of this Halloween wall hanging.

Discover the nuances of value as you learn how to audition BOTH spooky sides of fabric! Begin with the focus fabric. Once you’ve chosen that, start auditioning both sides of possible background fabric options.

The scrappy background fabrics.

Make your quilt sparkle by choosing a variety of background fabrics. Something’s Brewing is shown here with an eclectic mix:

  • My favorite fabric in this quilt: text from MacBeth!
  • Beige newsprint
  • Vanilla Grunge
  • Mottled Aqua
  • Stone Gray
  • Stonehenge (REVERSE)
  • Several Halloween motif fabrics
  • Plaid with glitz
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Something’s Brewing Quilt Pattern

Other Halloween Quilt Patterns

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Jacq O’ Lantern Quilt Pattern

Read how Jacq O’ Lantern Makes a Happy BOO!

See all the Halloween patterns and shop more than 50 designs that use BOTH beautiful sides of fabric HERE!

Finally, I have to share how fun it was to design and make this quilt, especially the honey buzzard claw feet and broomstick. Also, I love to see the creative cauldrons that customers and students make! There are LOTS of fun Halloween fabrics out there (and maybe in your stash) that would make a great cauldron.

Hope you’ll be stirring up something spooky soon!

Enjoy YOUR quilting journey!

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