These were a lot of fun to make and I can finally blog about them. The rainbow dragonfly made it's way to South Africa safely and the green one now resides in Ferndale Washington!!!
This is a mini scrap buster!! I save a lot of little scraps and I decided to use some up.
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| My leftover scraps |
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| and a left over piece of white fabric |
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| I simply layed the little scraps on the edge and sewed one straight seam |
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| pressed the seam |
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| then cut them into strips |
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| all cut and ready to lay out for assembly |
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| this looks good-time to sew! |
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| free motion quilting |
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| all quilted, now to decide postcard placement |
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| this looks good |
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| this looks better!! |
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| draw the outline of the postcard first, then stitch |
Now to design my little dragonflys and machine applique onto the surface of this little mini quilt!!
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| working on the wings using freezer paper |
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| oh my goodness, so many choices!!!!!! what to do, what to do???!!! |
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| blue dragonfly done |
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| the fabric on the right for the wings, and initially I was going to use that lime green for the body, but changed my mind |
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| the darker green worked much better!! |
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| I used YLI 100wt silk to machine applique the dragonfly to the surface. |
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| done |
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| so now to layer the quilt with all the necessary parts for the postcard. there are 7 layers total, the quilt top, batting and backing, then two layers of heat n bond, pellon, and the back of the postcard. |
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| fuse the heat n bond to the back of the quilt, gently so that you do not squash the quilting |
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| fuse the pellon to that |
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| another layer of heat n bond onto the pellon |
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and finally the back of the post card making sure all layers are well fused. after that, trim to the specific size which is
4" X 6" |
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| after you are done trimming, satin stitch the edges. I do a simple zigzag stitch at first, then go around the postcard twice with a good satin stitch. you can see that the green dragonfly was done with a varigated thread. |
That was FUN!!! Happy Quilting friends, take care and keep those needles sharp and changed after every 8 hours of stitching madness!!! :^) Martha
these are so pretty and what great fabrics you have found for their wings
ReplyDeleteThat's very cute!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome tutorial. Thank you for sharing your talent. I love the quilting on your postcards! QB, Judith1005
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards - thank you for the tutorial!
ReplyDeleteLeuk idee! ziet er schattig uit, en..... je brengt mij op meer ideen! Dank!
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