thepolyparrot

I only have two of her books and as I recall, they only teach hand applique. There are a lot of books on machine applique, though. You won't have any trouble taking the directions for one type and applying them to another type. You just have to remember when to cut on the piece and when to allow a turn-under.

Micha

Love the idea! Love applique!

TanyaL

For those of you who learned how to do machine applique from a book I would appreciate the name of the book- particularly those of you who do a satin stitch applique. I know it is very difficult to do as the width of the stitch has to be adjusted when you come to points, etc. And I know it must surely be time consuming to do. The stitching very much becomes part of the design of the applique and ceases to merely be the vehicle you use to attach the fabric. I have seen beautiful satin stitching on the appliques but I do not know the names of any of the books teaching machine applique with satin stitching. Please help.

thepolyparrot

There is one video tutorial and there are three books on the Connecting Threads site:
http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfS...chine+applique

Betty J

Tanyal,

I have posted some notes on page 78 re satin stitch applique "How to "

Hope you can find this of use. I originally leant applique in a class.

TanyaL

BettyJ, thank you for your reference; however I'm one of the ones having trouble getting around on this new site. Which topic thread is your "How To" written under? I only have 28 pages in this topic and it is one of the largest. If you were referring to an entry in this thread, it would be easier for me to find it by the entry number, i.e. this entry will be number 816 probably. Thank you.

TanyaL

Friends, Here is the type of information I am desperately searching for. If you are satin stitching something with a corner, I know one technique is to miter the stitches on the corner. I don't know how to do that. I know that if you are stitching around a curve but not a circle, then one technique is for the satin stitch to be very thick on the side of the curve and very thin on the top and bottom of the curve. The style I have seen has the stitching looking very much like you outlined the applique with a calligraphy pen instead of a sewing machine. Details inside, and each piece of fabric are done like this also. It is very pretty. So far all the instructions I have found just say use a zig-zag stitch or any width and density of my preference and stitch on the edge. This is another type of machine applique but not what I'm looking for, in fact I didn't know people used that for their finished stitching. So please - who does this varied width satin stitching applique work? Who can sew a mitred sating stitched corner? Who knows other ways to vary the BASIC satin stitch?

faykilgore

I've been doing hand applique a long time. It's my favorite fabric art form. If I ever finish "My Cat's Garden" now over 10 years in the WTF box (waiting to finish ), I want to do a stained glass.

I am learning to applique and thought this would be fun for all of us to chit chat here about applique. This way we can all learn together![/QUOTE]

faykilgore

THAT IS GORGEOUS! Very professional work!

faykilgore

That is the most gorgeous quilt I think I've ever seen! How long ago did they do that?